Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas

Sometimes the extreme is surprisingly appropriate.

The Book on Accessibility

Your workbook for creating an accessibility compliance program.

Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web

Google now supports basic Markdown in Google Docs.

Brave now offers enhanced customization

New sidebar, custom tab backgrounds, better privacy, and more.

Opera takes a giant leap into Web3

It integrates Solana, Polygon, StarkEx, and others.

Monitoring search traffic (and more!) with Data Studio

A template helps you to make your own search traffic dashboard.

The Index Coverage report statuses finally explained

Google Search Console’s indexing statuses formulated in an understandable way.

9 reasons why your pages aren’t indexed

Identify issues, know why they occur and how to fix them.

How LinkedIn evolved

LinkedIn’s way from being the place we only show our ‘work’ selves to our ‘whole’ selves.

JSON Resume

The open source initiative to create a JSON-based standard for resumes.

The business case for accessibility

Sometimes it’s necessary to justify accessible practices to stakeholders.

“I do not understand the shift from blogs to newsletters only. Pulling up a website to see what’s new feels like a journey into a magical land. Opening my inbox is associated with feelings of work and never ending to dos.”

The most powerful feature that Twitter has: advanced search

It “will revolutionize the way you search for what to read.”

Google Analytics 4 Measurement Protocol

Find out what all those GA4 hits parameters mean.

Introducing DuckDuckGo for Mac

A private, fast, and secure browsing app.

“We think of failure and success as opposites when in reality failure is part of success.”

The Email Marketing Glossary

Your guide to all the acronyms and terms in the email world.

Social media usage by age

Some platforms tend toward a younger audience and others towards an older.

“There’s no shame in forgoing social media and revisiting RSS. Let’s do it.”

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

The court has ruled again that scraping publicly accessible data is legal.

YouTube adds new shorts shelf to ‘Trending’ tab

“I maintain that Shorts poses the biggest threat to TikTok.”

Insanely Useful Websites

A curated collection of useful websites, products, and apps.

How we fought Search spam on Google in 2021

SpamBrain is Google’s most effective solution against spam.

Ecograder

How green is your website? Find it out.

How consent mode affects the way Google Analytics records data

Tests and observations based on UA and GA4.

“I frame every product exploration as an experiment. Lowers the expectations and increases the ambition.”

“We promise not to sell Firefox to a billionaire.”

“Your health is more important than your deadline.”

Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books

Who says that you must read all your books?

Velja

A Mac menu bar app to open links in a specific browser/app.

“Y’all better start using RSS if you don’t already.”

“Great products are the result of thousands of details that someone took the care to get right.”

RSS

How we can simulate a social network with personal sites.

“People who are good at interviewing get hired. People who are good at politics get promoted. Staffing your teams with this skill set won’t let you ship good product.”

At least 66.5% of links to sites in the last 9 years are dead

What you can do about link rot and why it matters.

“In every organization, there are more opinions about marketing than other functions because people are exposed to advertising their whole lives and they think it’s easy.”

23 measurement definitions every content marketer should know

Important terms around your content’s performance strategy.

Email marketing, new pricing plans, UI updates, and more

Lemon Squeezy is now free (up to 500 subscribers).

Apple is a massive force in AR

But it has yet to add support for web-based AR to the iPhone.

Short URLs: why and how

It’s not about a URL shortener; it’s about shortening your original URLs.

Social Image Maker

A simple online tool to create labeled images for popular social networks.

Calculating digital emissions

A methodology to calculate carbon emissions from digital products and services.

Ghost 5.0

“The next generation of powerful technology for independent publishers.”

An introduction to Google Search Console

Where Google gives you exclusive and actionable insights into your website.

Free podcast website builder

Generate a website for your podcast from your RSS feed.

Optimize crawling, for the environment

The cost of (too much) crawling and what you can do about it.

Symbols to Copy

Search difficult-to-type symbols and copy them to your clipboard.

23 million internal links: a Google SEO case study

How you can optimize your internal website links.

A startup wants to rescue you from browser tab hell

Browser Co. is rethinking the fundamentals of how we use the web.

Uno

A password manager to make your life on the internet easier.

Subterranean blogging

“Most of the value of blogging is invisible.”

Yep

An alternative search engine that shares its revenue with content creators.

“I was stuck on a problem and went for a walk, berating myself for procrastinating. Then the answer came to me. How many times do I have to learn this lesson?”

Google image thumbnails for organic results

What they are, how they work, and if SEO helps.

Find a good available .com domain

A smart alternative to typing random ideas into a registrar search.

The State of Link Building Report 2022

Insights into how SEOs approach and conduct link building.

Just put stuff out there

“Don’t overthink it – hit publish.”

A new way to write longer on Twitter

Twitter is testing a new feature called Notes.

“The World Wide Web is a medium that, for nearly 30 years, has enabled developers to continually reinvent the exact same way to blog.”

The demo -> demo loop

“The secret to making successful creative products.”

Hovercode

Create, track, and manage dynamic QR codes for your brand.

Almost half of GSC clicks go to hidden terms

An SEO study reveals a blind spot in Google Search Console.

“When you work on something you love, you never think in terms of work-life balance.”

Google Search ranking updates

The latest search ranking updates that are relevant to website owners.

Outverse

Forum and custom space builder for your community.

11 Google Sheets formulas SEOs should know

Formulas for keyword management, internationalization, and content/URL management.

Avoiding ‘img’ layout shifts

CSS aspect-ratio vs. width and height attributes.

“My toxic trait is putting QR codes on random restaurant tables, so people think it’s to order, but it’s actually to my portfolio.”

“Every shit product experience you’ve had is a result of someone in a meeting nodding their head instead of saying, ‘Buddy, I got no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.’”

“Working fully remote has completely transformed my entire life and the way I live. I feel like a person with a job now and not a job with a person.”

The Spam Report 2022

The current state of unsolicited marketing.

“Someone cancelling a meeting last minute is the best feeling in the world.”

Snapchat is finally coming to the web

After more than a decade as a mobile app.

The best ways to learn email marketing

Resources for starting your email marketing learning journey.

How to optimize social media images

Easily produce images that stand out in feeds and search results.

Global Remote Work Index

Discover the best scoring countries to accommodate remote employees.

Why expertise is the most important ranking factor of them all

Expertise, authority, and trustworthiness is becoming crucial for SEO success.

Call to Action Examples

A curated list of call-to-action phrases for different goals.

Sunset of the social network

The end of the era in which your friends shaped your online life.

“Hard skills get you hired. But soft skills get you promoted.”

Zero-click content

The counterintuitive way to succeed in a platform-native world.

The new Google Tag: one tag to rule them all

Control all Google’s tagging products from one centralized location.

Hacker News Slack Bot

Slack notifications for company/product mentions on Hacker News.

How we’re improving search results when you use quotes

Google Search with quotes gets even more powerful.

The newsletter boom is over

The current state of the hype surrounding paid newsletters.

New in structured data: Pros and cons

Google introduced a new schema for product review pages.

Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

How to protect yourself as a website provider or user.

“Hot take: ‘Internet Explorer’ was the most friendly, and arguably best, name of any web browser.”

CX and UX: where they differ and where they meet

Strategies to succeed in an increasingly competitive market.

“Say it with me: browser tabs are not a todo list.”

The pageview paradox

How great results cause poor performance.

What creators should know about Google’s helpful content update

Google Search’s next update focuses on people-first content.

Take care of your blog

There are no rules to blogging except one.

“Tools like Figma represent what the future of all software will look like: collaborative, multi-player, and built natively for the web.”

summarize.tech

Get AI-powered summaries of your YouTube videos.

Five walled garden

How operating systems are holding browsers back.

Data Never Sleeps 10.0

What happens on the internet every minute 2022.

Google Rank Tracker

Rank track keywords based on Google Search Console data.

Goodbye, Alexa. Hello, Cloudflare Radar domain rankings

Cloudflare now aggregates the top most popular domains based on usage.

Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners

The Brave browser will soon hide cookie consent notifications.