“You can go faster if you’re honest, because you don’t have to stop to think about whether something you’re about to do contradicts anything you’ve done in the past.”

Ad Copy, Simplified

Compose high-performing audience-based ad copy in seconds.

Microsoft will forcibly open some websites in Edge instead of Internet Explorer

Big changes are coming to Internet Explorer.

European payment methods available worldwide

Stripe businesses worldwide can now reach more European customers.

Safety and privacy in Microsoft Edge

How Microsoft’s browser keeps you safe on the web.

Discourse for Teams

A modern forum that enhances remote work and productivity.

HTTPS Is Table Stakes for SEO in 2020

97-98% of the top ten organic search results use https.

1Password for Linux beta is now open

The popular password manager comes to Linux desktop users.

Resetting online commerce

What’s going to happen in ecommerce? Online advertising? TV?

Phantom Analyzer

A real-time website scanner to see what trackers are lurking.

The story behind Markdown

How plain text got formatting, styled like classic emails.

How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet

The story behind a nothing but ordinary communication tool.

Linkable Content or Keyword-focused Content

Which is more important to your site?

Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

How the new video conferencing features work.

Analysing & fixing organic traffic drops

Everything you should do, from start to finish.

How Google tests new content in the search results

Content needs to prove itself, nothing is guaranteed.

Writing a book: is it worth it?

Insights into the business of book-writing.

How I created a Topic Cluster and boosted my website traffic by 1000%

What to consider when you plan a content update.

‘Significant’ drop in Google-reported search terms seen across devices and ad formats

Why this is a challenge for advertisers.

“If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.”

Bulk Actions with Google Tag Manager Triggers

Now you can process triggers for multiple tags at the same time.

Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search

Page experience ranking signals will roll out in May 2021.

Gumroad's detailed analytics

Better sales insights for the popular platform for creators.

The Impact of Let's Encrypt Changes on Android Users

What owners of older devices need to know.

Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data

Do we need a reality check in modern marketing?

SaaS Content Marketing

Why you should focus on bottom of the funnel first.

How Private Is My Pay App?

What to expect from PayPal, Venmo, and others.

Introducing Simple Search

A browser extension to get just the classic search results.

Squarespace Member Areas

Monetize content with paid areas on a Squarespace site.

Cooper

Professional network to connect privately with mentors, peers, employers.

How to Find Email Success With Convertkit

Convertkit can help you unleash the power of email marketing.

Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode

No more insecure connections without your permission.

Apple will reduce App Store cut to 15 percent for most developers

More revenue for niche app makers.

Implementation Guide For Events In Google Analytics 4

AI-powered data collection for the web.

Google Discover: How to Rank and Drive Traffic

Get more of your content into Google’s personal news feeds.

Screenity

A feature-packed screen recorder and annotation tool for Chrome.

Modern Duels

What’s your rate? What’s your budget?

Tag Mapper

Map out the connections in your Google Tag Manager account.

The Multi-SKU Creator

Why a paid newsletter won’t be enough money for most writers.

New and improved crawl stats for your site

Google lets you better understand how Googlebot crawls your site.

Social media companies all starting to look the same

What happened and what to expect in the future.

All these worlds are yours

Why ethical and responsible technology matter more than ever.

“Work on things you care about with people you care about. Sometimes it is just that simple.”

I just want to send this file

When you need to confirm you’re not a robot.

The future of remote work

How the greatest human migration in history will happen in the next ten years.

“Give credit. It’s so simple. It’s very destructive when you don’t, and can open doors when you do.”

Clean advertising

Let’s imagine a future without tracker-driven advertising.

Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Slack

Slack to become the new interface for Salesforce Customer 360.

The should-how fallacy

Keys to money-making, how-focused content.

Stripe Treasury

Banking-as-a-service for platforms.

“You won’t deliver innovation when your product development is driven through a backlog.”

1,000+ Winners and Losers

Impact of the December 2020 Google Core Algorithm Update

Social Strikes Back

What new social looks like, and how to build it.

Headlime

Marketing copy for headlines, landing pages, ads, and emails.

Web Almanac 2020: SEO

The current state of mastering the craft of search optimization.

The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp

Massive U.S. antitrust lawsuit against Facebook.

My 3-step process for setting goals you’ll actually follow

A simple and actionable framework for planning content.

Live, social, and shoppable: the future of video

What to expect from the new era of video-first products.

Make it personal

The best thing you can do, both professionally and personally.

PayPal introduces new fee for dormant accounts

Users can avoid the fee simply by logging in.

Why you need to start using Google Analytics 4

The power, flexibility, and feature richness of GA4.

Substack launches an RSS reader

A distraction free space with discovery features.

Announcing Link Graph

A visual map of the network that surrounds a website.

Twitter stops amplification experiment

Retweet functionality will be returning to the way it was before.

Six ways new social companies will monetize

Alternatives to the traditional ad model.

Search engine optimization checklist

Key factors to consider when you undertake an audit.

Social Networking 2.0

Beyond our expectations of social media like Twitter or Facebook.

Open Subscription Platforms

Where you can be in control of your customer data.

Partial indexing

What if Google doesn’t index the main content of your website?

Inside the chaos of brand safety technology

What to know if your online business relies on ads.

Building the middle class of the creator economy

Is it just a dream or can you make it happen?

Request Indexing

The long awaited feature in Google Search Console is back.

Own an emoji

Eventually people will think of you every time they see it.

8 themes for the near future of tech

Disruptive interfaces, quirky social apps, and more.

21 influencers share stellar advice for digital marketing in 2021

What to consider as we head into the new year.

Year in Search 2020

Explore what has captured our attention online.

Why digital privacy matters even more in 2021

Ways to grow your business as a privacy-first company.

Update: Long term shared hosting experiment

More SEO evidence that hosting can make a difference.

Towards an ad-free web

Diversifying the online economy.

Microsoft is building a new Outlook app

Future Windows/Mac versions will be powered by the web.

Newsletters

The current state of writing on the web and getting paid.

Google Entity Search aka interesting finds

The entity search engine Google has hidden in plain sight.

WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum

Share data with Facebook or stop using the app.

The dark matter influencer

There are influencers, and there are king makers.

Your Apple Watch can double as a vlogging viewfinder

The hack also works with Pixel phones and Wear OS devices.

Announcing Teamflow

Feel like a team again with your own virtual office.

21 smart Google SEO tips for 2021

What to prioritize and what to look out for in the year ahead.

“Mental endurance is a must-have skill for solo entrepreneurs. The biggest obstacle in our journey is our own self-doubt.”

Index Coverage Data Improvements

Google has improved the indexing state report of your web site.

Getting tech SEO implemented

The RPI framework: Recommend, Prioritize, Implement.

Lemon Squeezy

A dedicated platform for creators to sell digital products.

AlsoAsked

See the questions people also asked in Google Search.

Learning 3D modeling in 14 weeks

A methodology to learn 3D modeling and many other things.

Medium’s network is about to get bigger

The publishing platform gets a sibling, a digital book platform.

Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia

Readers, contributors, and donors have made it possible.

Block Party

An anti-harassment tool against online abuse on Twitter.

DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries

The privacy-focused search engine reached a major milestone.

Search Console Data Exporter

Export all the Google Search Console data you can.

Inferred links will replace the link graph

What if links won’t be all that crucial to Google’s rankings?

Tweetpik

A tool to convert tweets to images (SVG, PNG, JPG).