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Google processes trillions of searches per year, which equates to billions of searches each day. How do they decide what is the most promising result for every single one of that staggering volume of questions? Experience shows that you don’t have to be a huge website for a major brand to rank in the top…
Once upon a time, there lived a web developer who successfully convinced his customers that sites should not look the same in all browsers, cared about accessibility, and was an early adopter of CSS grids. But deep down in his heart it was performance that was his true passion: He constantly optimized, minified, monitored, and…
What a year 2017 was for Google Shopping, right? The real question is, though: How did your campaigns fare? Stellar? Decent? Mediocre? Regardless, the simple fact remains that it is now 2018 — a new year, which means renewed opportunities to do better (even if you think 2017 was your best). Undoubtedly, however, you are…
One of the best things about my job is that I sit right near our sales development team — so not only do I know about all the best new bars in the city, but I also hear a lot about the challenges and day-to-day frustrations that plague our sales reps. But sales and marketing…
A week after Facebook said that it will reduce the amount of news in people’s News Feeds, the company has announced that it plans to increase the quality of the news that does appear. Facebook will prioritize news posts from publishers that certain users have flagged as trustworthy, the company announced on Friday. Facebook will…
I hope you had a great start into the new year. And while it’s quite an arbitrary date, many of us take the start of the year as an opportunity to try to change something in their lives. I think it’s well worth doing so, and I wish you the best of luck for accomplishing…
On September 30th, 2017, the international WordPress community united for 24 hours to translate the WordPress ecosystem. For the third time, #WPTranslationDay fused an all-day translating marathon with digital and contributor day events designed to promote the value of creating accessible experiences for global users, better known as “localization”. As an open-source community, we should…
Advice for tech marketers rarely covers the words they should be using. Perhaps that’s not surprising in a business that takes perverse pride in its jargon, acronyms, neologisms and quirky branding. But bear with me, because I’m going to bring my inner word nerd out to play. Don’t worry — I’ll balance that with a…
A year ago Snapchat enabled app advertisers to attach deep links to their campaigns, so people could swipe up on an ad and open to a specific place within the advertisers’ app. The move was an attempt to make Snapchat’s app-install ad format useful for not only getting people to download an app but to…
In part one of this two-part article, we began building a drum sequencer in Elm. We learned the syntax, how to read and write type-annotations to ensure our functions can interact with one another, and the Elm Architecture, the pattern in which all Elm programs are designed. In this conclusion, we’ll work through large refactors…