Add RSS feeds to your website to keep your core readers engaged

The power of a well established web technology.

Some facts about Google Analytics data privacy

Google’s statement after Austrian accusations of GDPR violations.

Microsoft lets you follow YouTube creators in Edge browser test

Edge is getting a new modern RSS feed.

Memegine

A full-text search engine for internet memes.

Europe’s move against Google Analytics is just the beginning

Austria’s data regulator said its use is a breach of GDPR.

In pursuit of the perfect blog

Advantages and drawbacks of popular blogging platforms.

“10 years ago my Twitter feed was full of people striving to make the web better. Now it feels like everyone is out to make a quick buck.”

“Building something new is a form of criticism.”

Get to know the new Topics API for Privacy Sandbox

Google’s new proposal for more privacy-friendly advertising.

“No matter what you do, it will offend someone.”

We studied 81,000 page titles: Google rewrote 61% of them

What you can do to fight Google title rewrites.

Three things web3 should fix in 2022

A viral video highlights some very real shortcomings of web3.

Are my third-parties green?

Check the third-party resources used by your website.

How to price projects and manage scope creep

“Stop trying to estimate and scope projects without breaking them down into phases.”

“My superpower is asking questions during presentations that are explained in the very next slide.”

German court rules websites embedding Google Fonts violates GDPR

The ruling mostly focuses on the lack of consent.

GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

The decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online ad businesses.

“There will always be an infinite list of things to do. Accept it and shut your laptop at a reasonable time each night. You won’t regret it.”

Why you should start a blog right now

Nothing to say? Nobody will read it? Read on.

How to update and refresh old website content (and why)

5 steps to update old content for SEO.

Google Search Console URL Inspection API in Data Studio

A dashboard template to monitor how Google is crawling your site.

“Nothing makes for a more impactful presentation than saying ‘next’ every 5–10 seconds.”

SEO Pro Extension

All the primary SEO information about your website at a glance.

“Dentist: ‘so, are you flossing?’ Me: ‘are you using a unique password for every account?’”

Is server-side Google Analytics the answer?

An analysis on if you can be GDPR compliant with server-side tagging.

The case for QR

QR code’s impressive journey in the last few years.

What using RSS feeds feels like

The many differences in experiencing newsfeeds vs. social media.

Lost Google Impressions Index Check

Identify URLs that have lost impressions, debug and optimize them.

10 ways to beat Google title rewrites, backed by data

What to do when Google Search doesn’t use your intended page titles.

Carbolytics

The impact of browser-based cookie traffic on CO2 emissions.

“If you force me to login to unsubscribe from your emails, I will just mark your emails as spam.”

Unredacter

Why you should not use pixelation to hide sensitive content.

Media websites: 70% of the carbon footprint caused by ads and stats

The environmental impact of visiting a media site.

“Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better. Sometimes the gaps in your knowledge only become clear when you try explaining things to others.”

Slidev

Markdown-based and themable presentation slides for developers.

The case against comments

Do article comments offer any value for search engine optimization?

2022 State of Remote Work

The current benefits, struggles, and evolution of remote work.

Introducing Beam

A simple open-source message board for your organization or project.

Google Trends Supercharged

A Chrome extension that adds enriched data to Google Trends.

PopSpace

An open-source virtual space for chatting, collaborating, and playing.

Web devs rally to challenge Apple App Store browser rules

Open Web Advocacy takes aim at Apple’s walled garden.

Convert English to Regex in Google Sheets with GPT3

AI-powered conversion of plain English statements into valid Regex.

8 counterintuitive marketing strategies that actually work

Marketing principles and examples that challenge common sense.

WTF is jobfishing (and how to avoid it)

How scammers look to capitalize on the hot remote job market.

Accessible Social

Resources about accessible best practices for social media content.

What is a good customer churn rate?

A high customer churn rate can be deadly for your business.

Content hubs

How to improve the way you’re currently producing hub and spoke content.

Prepare for the future with Google Analytics 4

Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits on July 1, 2023.

Magic Eraser

An online tool to remove unwanted things in your images in seconds.

Storytelling: a product manager’s secret weapon

How to reach a receptive audience in a compelling way.

A look at search engines with their own indexes

Googling without Google matters.

Bing vs. Google

Which search engine indexes more content?

Open Source Alternative to…

Search for open source alternatives to popular proprietary products.

Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the web

Let’s make a web that is truly open and accessible to all.

CXL Playbook Community

Learn marketing at the job, get peer support for marketing tasks you face.

Microsoft is finally making it easier to switch default browsers in Windows 11

It’s a one-click process now.

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.