Content Trends 2018: BuzzSumo Research Report

The new world of content saturation and falling social shares.

“Leaders always underestimate how often they need to repeat things to keep everyone on the same page and motivated toward the same goals.”

How PayPal Shares Your Data

What kind of data does PayPal share with third parties?

We Analyzed 10,000 Google Home Results

Here’s what we learned about voice search SEO.

“We need to stop calling things ‘smart’ devices. A more accurate name is a ‘surveillance device that also does something else.’”

State of Remote Work 2018 Report

What it’s like to be a remote worker in 2018.

Working the weekend

What it means to work with people across timezones.

Stripe Atlas: Networking for founders

How to build relationships that can help your business.

The web is under threat. Join us and fight for it.

Let’s work together to create the web we all want.

Audience-First Link Building

A modern guide to build links with many real-world examples.

Firefox can now block those annoying notification requests

Stop websites from even asking to send notifications.

How Content Experts Survive When Social Shares Dive

Trends and takeaways.

How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions

One of the largest data leaks in the social network’s history.

Introducing Jot: Notes and todos

Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.

Google search results page displays answer without any search results

Who needs the ten blue links when you have the answer?

“People who never stop designing aren’t shipping product.”

How to Choose a Startup Name that Reduces Marketing Friction

Priorities that matter when choosing a name.

Measure customer use of things, not customer satisfaction with things

“In a digital economy, the most vital thing to manage is use.”

“You can be wrong on a lot of decisions if you are really right on a few huge ones. Optimize for the magnitude of your good decisions, not the percentage of the time you are right.”

Introducing Subscribe with Google

Google makes it easier to access premium content.

Google stops showing zero search results for time, calculations & conversions

The condensed view experiment is now on hold.

How to use Facebook while giving it the minimum amount of personal data

Precautions you can take to protect your privacy.

How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing

Take back control of your privacy settings.

Configure Google Analytics to be GDPR compliant

Steps towards GDPR compliant analytics.

The Missing Building Blocks of the Web

“The web was supposed to be made out of countless little sites.”

Mobile SEO: The Definitive Guide

“Mobile search engine optimization is more important than ever.”

Disconnect and take a break from your iPhone by using this little-known feature

Automatic responses for your friends.

“Stop looking at what other companies are doing. Start spending more time with existing/potential customers.”

Check-in rounds

How the start of a meeting can be the beginning of so much more.

Rolling out mobile-first indexing

Google now prefers to index and rank the mobile website versions.

“Who cares, I have nothing to hide”

Why the popular response to online privacy is so flawed.

Facebook Container Extension

Take control of how you’re being tracked.

It’s Time to Make Our Privacy Tools Easier to Find

Facebook introduces more intuitive privacy controls.

The Definitive Solopreneur Content Curation Guide

How to keep your brand visible, even if your resources are limited.

It's Time for an RSS Revival

Let’s get the unfiltered view of the open web again.

“Most project management software is designed for how we wish projects ran. This is why we all end up in spreadsheets. Spreadsheets don’t even assume a project is actually happening.”

“You’ll always have the right to change your mind. It’s a byproduct of learning.”

Attack Of The Micro Brands

The long-tail impact of direct-to-consumer brands.

The death of the newsfeed

Why social apps can’t solve the problem of information overload.

Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links

Google is ending its URL Shortener.

Where Searches Happen on the Web (Google, Amazon, Facebook, & Beyond)

Is Google gaining or losing ground in search?

Stripe Billing

Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businesses.

“Other people’s success is not your failure. You’ll be so much happier if you learn to celebrate the achievements of other people as well as your own.”

Google Confirms Chrome Usage Data Used to Measure Site Speed

What this may mean for users.

Words That Convert: Test, Learn, Repeat

“Don’t assume which words convert.”

How Mobile-First Indexing Disrupts the Link Graph

Google’s shift may have some unexpected impacts.

What is my day rate?

Don’t sell yourselves under your market value for freelance work.

Publishers Haven't Realized Just How Big a Deal GDPR is

What the new EU General Data Protection Regulation really means.

Firefox 11.0 for iOS arrives with tracking protection on by default

The feature improves privacy, but also performance.

Rethinking the creative web

Our journey to reimagine ‘web publishing’ for the social web.

URLs, Crawling, and PageRank; Fundamentals of SEO

It’s all about the URL.

Fathom Analytics

What if website analytics software was simple and trustworthy?

Sayspring is now part of Adobe

Free creation of interactive prototypes for voice applications.

Facebook Container for Firefox

Prevent Facebook from seeing what websites you visit.

Open Standards for Data

How to create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

What Do the New Twitter Rules Mean for Social Media Managers

Twitter might suspend your account if you fail to comply.

Flickr bought by SmugMug, which vows to revitalize the photo service

A new life for the faded social networking pioneer.

“The number of people with blogs absent an RSS or Atom feed is too damn high.”

April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser Lights Up Web With Color, Creativity

The modern web started 25 years ago.

Banner Blindness Revisited: Users Dodge Ads on Mobile and Desktop

“Do not make content look like ads.”

How merchants use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews

Questionable product reviews are on the rise.

It’s Time to Retire ‘RTFM’

Let’s create a more inclusive and productive tech industry.

Twist

A calm, organized, and productive way to work together.

Google Sending Mobile First Indexing Enabled Notices via Google Search Console

The emails have begun…

How to Design Better Social Media

Let’s make social platforms better for society and humanity.

Opera Touch

Seamless web browsing across your devices, made to be used on the go.

Square to buy Weebly for $365 million

The deal enables small businesses to build websites and online stores.

Web Payments update: new payment apps on their way

Samsung Pay news.

Google and HTTP

The web is an open platform, not a corporate platform.

A new Twitter experience on Windows

Better, faster and with a more consistent look and feel.

Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what?

The phenomenal rise of the Stories format in social media.

Keeping your account secure

Twitter has found a bug that stored passwords unmasked.

Your Google Analytics Advanced Segments Are Going Away This Month

Unless you do this.

Emojityper

Find emojis, just type some words.

New Data Retention Policies in Google Analytics

What it means and why it’s important.

Microsoft launches new audience network, ‘Audience Ads’ at Bing Partner Summit

What it means for marketers.

Are you really Facebook’s product?

We have the power to demand change.

GDPR made searchable

Chapters, articles and recitals of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Android P

A first look at Google’s most ambitious update in years.

Google Duplex

An AI system for accomplishing real world tasks over the phone.

“We seem to have a surplus of people with ideas for tearing things down and a deficit of people with ideas for making things more resilient.”

Write emails faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

Faster email drafts, assisted by artificial intelligence.

The GDPR Checklist

Achieving GDPR Compliance shouldn’t feel like a struggle.

Sunsetting Klout

The once popular measures for social influence are soon gone.

Alternative analytics

Who said that there are no other web analytics tools?

The Tarot Cards Of Tech

Unintended consequences of technology: ask the right questions.

“Your resumé shouldn’t be a listing of everything you’ve done. It should tell a story about your passions and experience.”

The 10 SEO ranking factors we know to be true

How important each factor is and the evidence we have for it.

Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now

Why you should disable PGP/GPG and S/MIME for now.

How to Earn Google Featured Snippets for Mobile

Findings of a large-scale study.

Tweetbot for Mac

The popular Twitter app with a lot of new features, including a dark theme.

Google Search Console: The Definitive Guide

Tips, tactics, and strategies to get higher rankings.

howdoesitlookonsocial?

Check how your web page looks like when it is posted on social media.

User Deletion API

An overview of the Google Analytics User Deletion API.

No one’s ready for GDPR

Not the companies and not even the regulators.

Most GDPR emails unnecessary and some illegal, say experts

GDPR-related emails are flooding inboxes across Europe.

Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

Stream releases an open source podcast and RSS reader.

Google Analytics Training: How to Turn Insights Into Action

10 mistakes you may be making and how to fix them.

GDPR: A Guide for Ecommerce

How EU’s regulation maps to your business and responsibilities.

So long, StumbleUpon

The web discovery platform is moving to Mix.