“Staying small allows you both, be fast and slow. You can ship and act fast when needed, but you can also slow down while remaining operative without the pressure of overhead.”

Content Consumption: Go Beyond Pageviews

A way to measure if people are actually reading your content.

An update to referral source URLs for Google Images

What you need to know.

The Ultimate Influencer Marketing Playbook of 2018

Insights from industry thought leaders and practitioners.

How To Improve Content Amplification On The Cheap: Network

Ways to attract awareness and interest in your content.

Dark UX Patterns in Advertising

A few tricks the bad guys are using.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project

Collaboration for ‘the future of portability’.

How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness

Youngsters report problems with anxiety, depression, sleep and ‘FoMO’.

Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet

The web standard smashes the walls between the web’s social silos.

mybrowser.fyi

Easy to digest browser details to help you with tech support.

Farewell, Google Maps

Which is the best alternative for mid- and larger sites?

A milestone for Chrome security: marking HTTP as 'not secure'

Google rolls out a big change for Chrome.

feediary

RSS reader to browse your favorite content, with no tracking and no ads.

Google Search Quality Rater Guidelines Updated

Beneficial purpose, creator reputation, and more

Hey Google, what's the latest news?

US publishers can now markup news sections for the Google Assistant.

9 Best Practices for Creating a High Converting Pricing Page

With Examples.

Designing remotely: The best decision I’ve made in my life

A guide to remote working and how to get started.

Stripe Issuing

The Stripe platform for online payments goes physical.

Facebook is testing a proper Progressive Web App for its mobile website

A viable alternative to its native app.

“The best way to teach someone is to give them the necessary tools, a real project, and a deadline. Without a real project, the lessons won’t stick, and without a deadline, they won’t feel the urgency to learn.”

Why My Web Traffic Dropped?

A checklist to identify the cause of your site’s search traffic loss.

Introducing Web Authentication in Microsoft Edge

A passwordless experience on the web.

“Something I wish I’d learned earlier in my career: The way companies run their recruiting process is a strong indicator for what it’s like to work there.”

Evolving the Firefox Brand

Because Firefox is now more than a web browser.

Speed is now a landing page factor for Google Search and Ads

What you can do to speed up things.

“The secret to managing an out-of-control amount of browser tabs is to just open another browser window.”

Microsoft starts testing Your Phone Windows 10 app that mirrors phone content to a PC

What to expect from the app.

Introducing the Dweb

What a web more fully in users’ control could look like.

New Tools to Manage Your Time on Facebook and Instagram

An activity dashboard, a daily reminder, and more.

The Future of SEO Has Never Been Clearer (nor more ignored)

“SEO isn’t going away anytime soon.”

Transistor

Podcast hosting and analytics for creatives, brands, professionals.

27 Ways to Increase Website Traffic in 2018

Untapped strategies and advanced tips.

Bits

“The web’s performance problem is a problem of profitability.”

“Web: ‘We noticed you’re using an Ad blocker.’ Me: ‘I noticed you’re using 32 tracking services.’”

56 Influencers Share Their Biggest Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Expert roundup.

This is the Amazon everyone should have feared

It has nothing to do with its retail business.

How to Promote your Blog to Drive More Traffic and Shares

Research report.

“There’s a big difference between being demanding and being demeaning. Great leaders don’t undermine people, they elevate them.”

“One of the most value-add things a leader can do is stop conversations as soon as there are diminishing returns.”

Best Practices for Choosing Effective and Captivating Social Media Visuals

How to customize visuals for your social platforms.

The Power User Curve

The best way to understand your most engaged users.

Overdue

A curated list of resources to help freelancers get paid.

Cure Invisible Content Syndrome with These 10 Tactics from the Pros

Tips from top marketers in the industry.

The next ten years of Instapaper

Instapaper relaunches its Premium offer and resumes its EU service.

We Analyzed 43 Million Facebook Posts From the Top 20,000 Brands

Key findings of the study.

50 of the Best Social Media Tools Selected by Top Marketers

Popular and lesser known marketing tools.

“Every person carries around a device with access to the totality of human knowledge and yet people are constantly wrong about everything.”

“We should all give each other more room to make mistakes.”

Mobile Websites

“Websites these days, it’s no wonder nobody uses them on mobile.”

Sustainable Link Building

Increasing your chances of getting links.

How to Qualify Sites for Link Outreach

Let’s take a look at negative and positive factors of a web site.

More than 1,000 U.S. news sites are still unavailable in Europe

Two months after GDPR took effect.

Anywhere Workers

Insights about the trend of digital nomads and remote working.

“In the same way that sound isn’t music, traffic isn’t audience.”

“Rest, a lot. That’s when ideas come. Read a lot, eclectically, about everything that interests you. That’s where ideas come from. And wear groovy shirts.”

Mastodon Bridge.

Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon, the community-owned social network.

Lessons learned from failing to become a freelancer

The grass isn’t always greener.

Link-building tools you may not know about

Great additions to your link tool arsenal.

“How about if we all start blogging and subscribing to each other’s Atom feeds again? The original distributed social network could still work pretty well if we actually start using it.”

Google launches new expandable featured snippets with more information

What to expect from the new form.

“Your personal brand is the most stupid way in which you’ve accidentally injured yourself.”

“Innovation is not creating something new. Innovation is not inventing something that didn’t exist before. Innovation is adding new value that didn’t exist before.”

“It’s not about time management, it’s about obligation elimination.”

Number of Third-Party Cookies on EU News Sites Dropped by 22% Post-GDPR

The impact of the EU rules on third-party cookies.

Introducing Ghost 2.0

What’s new in the open source platform for publishers.

“If you are successful, it’s almost always because some people went out of their way to help you. You have a moral obligation to pay it forward.”

Using Google Data Studio for a more actionable Google Search Console Performance Dashboard

Tutorial and template.

These Four Emails Are Drastically Underutilized For Customer Retention

Here’s how you can fix that.

Google AMP beat Facebook Instant Articles

But publishers start to question AMP’s benefits.

How to Avoid Loneliness When You Work Entirely from Home

Forming meaningful connections with like-minded colleagues.

The SEO versus Social Battle Has a New Winner

The roles have reversed.

Crawl budget explained

Improve search engine rankings by fixing crawl budgets.

Accidentally, intentionally building communities

What community management really means.

How to Learn SEO In 2018 (In Record Time)

What’s possible when you use the right sources.

“A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.”

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 64

A user gesture is now required to send Safari Push Notifications.

Discovering your true point of differentiation

Can you finish this sentence: ’Only we …?′

20 Examples Of Truly Engaging Interactive Content (Updated)

Ways to stand out from the crowd.

Google Wants to Kill the URL

The Chrome security team is rethinking URLs across the web.

Custom Domains service deprecation

What you need to know if you have a custom domain on Medium.

“You are underestimating the compounding awesomeness of continually fixing small broken things.”

What is Mastodon and why should I use it?

Introduction to a microblogging platform similar to Twitter.

Which CMS platforms perform best on Google?

A study of 1-million websites.

The Simple Twitter Strategy That Helped Us Generate 90% More Clicks

How it works.

“The most underrated algorithm in data science is ‘go talk to people who deal with the problem every day and learn from them.’”

The hidden cost of bootstrapping

If you’re self-funding a business, you are the main investor.

Internet Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web

The DWeb: what it is and how it works.

Google’s Inbox app is shutting down in March 2019

Users will have to switch over to Gmail.

EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

But the battle isn’t over yet.

A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone

It can be done with just a few lines of code.

Firefox’s New Browser Will Keep Brands From Stalking You

Mozilla takes aggressive measures to protect users’ privacy.

Protecting your safety-minded friends on social media

Rules to protect yourself and other people.

Unveiling a New LinkedIn Groups Experience

A shared space to build your professional communities.

The Rise and Demise of RSS

What we have to do if we want to see a more open web.

Stripe Terminal

The programmable point of sale.

Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down

The last goodbye.

Explore the immersive web with Firefox Reality

Now available for Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream.

Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds

You can soon craft a timeline that fits your needs.

“Having the self-belief that you will be able to figure things out as you go along is critical to success at anything hard.”

Simple Analytics

Privacy-focused, minimalist web analytics.