Google Marketing Live 2022: Reactions from the experts
Four Google Ads experts give their thoughts on the recent Google Marketing Live event and how it may impact your ad acco… Read more
30+ agencies form new group to support reproductive rights
The agencies will cover the expenses for employees who need to travel to a state where abortions are legal and safe. The… Read more
What to do if you’re negatively impacted by a major algorithm update
At SMX Advanced, Glenn Gabe shared how SEOs can address -- and prepare for -- major Google updates. The post What to do… Read more
Demystifying The New Gatsby Framework
Gatsby 4 came out in October 2021 with a lot of new features. It may seem as if Gatsby 4 didn’t cause a big stir among d… Read more
21 ways to keep your marketing team productive
Looking for ways to improve your marketing team’s productivity? Here are some hacks and ways to build a culture that rew… Read more
How Google creates knowledge panels
The influence of the Knowledge Graph is growing fast and should be included in your SEO strategy. The post How Google cr… Read more
Core Web Vitals scores improving for top-ranked sites
New research looks at the top rankings for 500 keywords in Education, B2B Tech, Finance, and Retail. The post Core Web V… Read more
The latest jobs in search marketing
On the hunt for something new? Check out who's hiring in search marketing this week. The post The latest jobs in search… Read more
Why SEO must start with strategy, planning
Want to avoid spending a lot of time, resources and energy on SEO without results? Then you need an SEO strategy and pla… Read more
Virtual environment optimization (VEO) is coming. Ready for it?
Should you consider virtual optimization (VEO)? And what might optimizing a virtual environment look like? Find out here… Read more
Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names
Partially visually hidden link names may be good for people who use screen readers, but they can be problematic for thos… Read more
How To Create A Vanilla JavaScript Gantt Chart: Adding Task Editing Features (Part 2)
In this article, we will enhance the Gantt Chart component with some interaction possibilities for editing the jobs. In… Read more
How To Test Your MVP Within 2 Weeks (Or Less)
Looking for ways to test your product faster? In this article, Sergey Krasotin uncovers common mistakes startup product… Read more
Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier In My Career
Do you feel stuck in your company? Do you believe you deserve a raise but it never happens? Do you think you might need… Read more
Precise Timing With Web Animations API
In JavaScript, it’s natural to reach for timers when something is to happen on time. But when something is to happen at… Read more
How To Easily Build And Support Tables In Figma
In this article, Andrii shares his approach to managing tables in Figma in an easier, more streamlined way when there is… Read more
Web Design Done Well: Delightful Data Visualization Examples
All the data in the world won’t do anyone any good if we can’t make sense of it. Or better yet, make it sing. Here are s… Read more
The Guide To Windows High Contrast Mode
In this article, we’ll see how to make our sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode by using a good set of practice… Read more
Adding Search To Your Site In 15 Minutes
Do you need search for your site, but haven’t found the time to add it? Within 15 minutes, Leonardo Losoviz explains how… Read more
How To Apply UX Principles To Embedded Systems: Learnings From The Field
In this article, Eva gives an overview of what embedded systems are and how they impact our lives. She presents three ma… Read more
DevFest For Ukraine, A Charity Conference On The Future Of Tech 🇺🇦
[DevFest for Ukraine](https://devfest.gdg.org.ua/) is a charitable online conference that will bring together 20 industr… Read more
Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2)
In this article, Thomas Bohm explains ways to test typefaces and other typographic issues. Though this article is slight… Read more
The Future Of Frontend Build Tools
This article explores the evolution and the future of frontend tooling, presenting a new set of tools featuring a change… Read more
Simplify Your Color Palette With CSS Color-Mix()
CSS color-mix is an experimental function that blends two colors and can be used to simplify color palettes. You can def… Read more
Digital Museums For Digital History
Computer technologies have simplified the process of recording historical events, technological breakthroughs, contempor… Read more
The Case For Prisma In The Jamstack
In this article, Sam Poder explores how Prisma integrates with the Jamstack and why it’s a great solution for Serverless… Read more
Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)
This is the first part of this article, written especially for typeface designers and typographers. See how typefaces wo… Read more
How To Build A Group Chat App With Vanilla JS, Twilio And Node.js
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a group chat app. You will build a backend app using Node.js that will ma… Read more
Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties
In this article, Ken Harker explains what third-party resource requests really are and which common optimization strateg… Read more
Expand Your Horizons (June 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)
What could be a better way to welcome June than with some colorful inspiration? Well, we might have something for you: w… Read more
Smashing Podcast Episode 47 With Sara Soueidan: Why Does Accessibility Matter?
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask why accessibility really matters and why it is so important to get it ri… Read more
What’s That (Dev) Tool?
How many browser DevTools panels do you commonly use in your day-to-day web development? One? Three? Probably not that m… Read more
Open-Source 3dicons Library: Case Study And Free Downloads
In this article, Vijay describes his learning experiences during the design stages of creating his 3dicons image library… Read more
Manage Accessible Design System Themes With CSS Color-Contrast()
From working with design handoffs to supporting custom themes in a design system, the CSS `color-contrast()` function ca… Read more
Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript
In this article, Frank Joseph explains both weak and strong references in JavaScript, as well as the concept of reachabi… Read more
Developing An Award-Winning Onboarding Process (Case Study)
This article is a case study of how the platformOS team has researched, developed, and iteratively adjusted their onboar… Read more
Automating Ourselves Out of Existence
Time has grown more scarce after having a child, so I rarely blog anymore. Though I thought it probably made sense to ma… Read more
Lesser-Known And Underused CSS Features In 2022
CSS is constantly evolving, and some cool and useful properties either go completely unnoticed or are not talked about a… Read more
The Ultimate Free Solo Blog Setup With Ghost And Gatsby
In this article, we will see step-by-step how you can get the best of customization with easy admin by using Ghost as a… Read more
Kubernetes For Frontend Developers
In this article, Benjamin Ajibade introduces Kubernetes to front-end engineers and explaines why Kubernetes is integral… Read more
Smashing Podcast Episode 46 With Vitaly Friedman: Who Is Elliot Jay Stocks?
In this episode, we ask how one man can go from designing websites for local bands to heading up Google Fonts Knowledge.… Read more
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Let’s take a closer look at how you can create your very own WordPress site up and running created and hosted with the E… Read more
Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool
What makes the underused `Server-Timing` header uniquely powerful among all other response headers? We’ll rethink the ex… Read more
Top Tasks: To Focus On What Matters You Must De-Focus On What Doesn’t
We waste so much today. One way of focusing on what truly matters is by identifying Top Tasks for yourself. Learn how to… Read more
How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks
In this article, Dan Shappir analyzes the performance cost associated with various frameworks and explains the wide vari… Read more
How Even Small UX Changes Can Result In An Increase In Conversion (A Case Study)
In this article, we will be taking a closer look at a design case study and discuss possible reasons why its customers a… Read more
Magical SVG Techniques
Smart SVG techniques, from generative SVG grids to SVG paths with masks, grainy SVG gradients, cut-out effects and fract… Read more
Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache
At the end of 2021, the Chrome team shipped some functionality that has the ability to make or break sites meeting the C… Read more
How To Give Effective Feedback Remotely
Let’s explore how to give and receive better feedback when working remotely — feedback that is actionable, specific, kin… Read more
Resilience, Flexibility And Immediacy: Working With Headless Systems
When deploying websites, there’s rarely a one-size-fits-all solution. Some websites benefit from server-rendered pages,… Read more
Top 8 Multipurpose WordPress Themes To Check Out in 2022
The right multipurpose WordPress theme can make building a website a fast, easy, and pleasurable task. There are plenty… Read more
Has Innovation Died in Marketing?
Caveat: This will likely be one of my longish, link-heavy Thinking Out Loud pieces, so I invite you all to pour yourse… Read more
Looking for the best Tools and Resources for Designers and Agencies? They’re in this article
An effective, well-organized workflow is an important web design asset. It can be a critical asset for a professional we… Read more
Engineering Search Outcomes
Kent Walker promotes public policies which advantage the Google monopoly. His role doing that means he has to write some… Read more
Top 9 WordPress Plugins That Will Stick in 2022
The right WordPress theme used in conjunction with the WordPress Platform allows a web designer to create almost any web… Read more
On Building A Better Web: The Marlinspike Threads
If you want to follow the debate about crypto’s impact on society, which I believe is one of the most important topics i… Read more
A Draft Syllabus For The Rabbit Hole
(image) The most common complaint I hear from friends and colleagues who are interested in the crypto/web3 world is how… Read more
Best 10 WordPress Themes you Should Consider in 2022
The online world has gone from being a novelty in the latter part of the 20th century to a major influencer in our lives… Read more
Let’s Argue About Web3!
Popcorn in hand, I’ve been watching the recent religious war between tech leaders, and I find it all quite…wonderful. I… Read more
8 Best WordPress Mailing List Plugins For Getting More Subscribers – 2022
With over 1 Billion users on Gmail alone, marketers now claim email to be one of the best marketing strategies that brin… Read more
Why I’m Still Worried About TikTok
(image credit) News came last week that TikTok eclipsed both Google and Facebook as the most visited domain and most dow… Read more
6 Best WordPress Landing Page Plugins Compared (2022)
Are you struggling to grow your email list and generate more leads? Are you having trouble signing up people for your we… Read more
Predictions 2022 – Crypto, Climate, Big Tech, Streaming, Offices, Tik Tok…and (ugh) Trump
Welcome to year nineteen of these annual predictions, which means….holy cow, twenty years of writing at this site. Searc… Read more
Facebook’s Pretty Bad, No, Terrible Awful Game Changing Year
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains his “Metaverse” virtual world concept, which he says is about “connecting with peo… Read more
Predictions 2021: How’d I Do? Pretty Damn Well.
As has been my practice for nearly two decades, I penned a post full of prognostications at the end of last year. As 20… Read more
Top 5 Web Design Trends That Will Stick in 2022
Web design trends don’t just appear out of the blue. They arise in response to people’s thinking in terms of their n… Read more
The Best 2021 Black Friday Deals? They’re in This Article
Every year at this time you’ll find us hard at work to place an enticing selection of great Black Friday deals and dis… Read more
22 Best Flyer Fonts For 2022
Designing professional and eye-catching flyers is no easy task, and it’s really important to choose the right flyer font… Read more
The Recount Turns Two
Two years ago The Recount moved out of beta with our first daily product. A short summary of national news, The Daily Re… Read more
25 Best Condensed Fonts for 2022
Searching for the perfect font for your upcoming project? Would you like something versatile and elegant? Condensed font… Read more
21 Best Resume Templates to Impress Employers (2022)
Thinking about applying for a new job? Looking for a way to get your resume noticed by potential employers? What you nee… Read more
Why Is The Streaming Experience So Terrible?
I wrote this for P&G’s Signal360 publication, but I thought I’d toss it up here as well. I know I’ve been very, very abs… Read more
23 Best Mockup Templates for 2021 (Free & Premium)
Are you a graphic designer looking to showcase your designs in a real-world setting? Do you want to create a presentatio… Read more
Cannibalization
In today's episode of Whiteboard Friday, Moz SEO expert Tom Capper walks you through cannibalization: what it is, how to… Read more
Tackling 8,000 Title Tag Rewrites: A Case Study
Let's take an in-depth look at Moz.com title tags that were re-written by Google, including three case studies where we… Read more
How Our Website Conversion Strategy Increased Business Inquiries by 37%
See how, through several little tweaks to their conversion strategy, the team at Chromatix attracted a higher tier of cu… Read more
How to Add Products to Your Google My Business Listing, Illustrated
Miriam helps you get started in Google My Business Products with this illustrated tutorial, walking you through how to a… Read more
The Three Bosses of SEO
In SEO, there are three main “bosses” with different needs: your business, your searchers, and your search engines. How… Read more
Winning the Page Speed Race: How to Turn Your Clunker of a Website Into a Race Car
Winning the page speed race requires the same things as winning a car race: making sure that your vehicle is as lightwei… Read more
Responsive Search Ads: 5 Best Practices for Google Ads PPC Search Campaigns
These tips will help you optimize your responsive search ads in your Google Ads search campaigns, and increase clicks an… Read more
How to Calculate Your SEO ROI Using Google Analytics
Measuring ROI for your SEO efforts involves two factors: KPIs and the cost of your current SEO campaigns. With GA, you c… Read more
How to Use STAT to Find SEO Opportunities at Scale
Today, Cyrus explains how powerful STAT can be when you’re trying to discover SEO opportunities on a massive scale. Read more
The Guide to Targeted-Impact Link Building
Links drive rankings — that’s one thing that SEOs and marketers can agree on. But which rankings, and for which pages on… Read more
Creative or Developer? One or More of these 15 Awesome Pre-built Websites Could be Just Right for You
As a creative, you need a digital space to showcase your work to potential employers or clients, and for that matter to… Read more
Weatherstack Review: Is This the Best Weather API?
Looking for a way to share location-based weather reports and forecasts with your website visitors? You’re going to need… Read more
Conversion.ai Review
Background / Intro One of my longtime friends who was Internet marketing long before I was hit me up on Skype about a we… Read more
5+ Useful Multipurpose WordPress Themes To Check Out
Great flexibility, powerful website building tools, and excellent customer support. It exemplify the top-of-the line mul… Read more
SEMrush IPO (SEMR)
On Wednesday SEMrush priced their IPO at $14 a share & listed Thursday. There have been many marketing and online advert… Read more
The best 15 Tools & Resources for Designers? They’re in this article
There can be various reasons for failing to deliver a product on time. Take for example a situation in which progress gr… Read more
9 Best WordPress Plugins for 2021
There are few if any good reasons not to choose the best of the bunch when you’re looking for useful WordPress plugins… Read more
The Top Blogging Platforms of the Year (2021)
Deciding to start a blog, whether it be for personal or professional use, is a great idea. With the rise in internet act… Read more
The Wrong People Won
Chasing New Markets My initial attraction toward SEO and the web was largely that it was like a new and parallel world t… Read more
Influencer Review – A look at What Influencer has to offer?
Nowadays, if you have a product, service, or brand that you want to “get out there” one of the best ways to do that is t… Read more
SEMrush vs. Moz
After creating a website and registering your domain name, there are about… The post SEMrush vs. Moz appeared first on W… Read more
Ahrefs vs. Majestic
Building your website traffic requires a particular set of skills, including a… The post Ahrefs vs. Majestic appeared fi… Read more
SpyFu vs. SEMRush
When it comes to digital marketing, few things are more important than… The post SpyFu vs. SEMRush appeared first on Web… Read more
Ahrefs vs. Moz
Determining which Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool is best for your business… The post Ahrefs vs. Moz appeared firs… Read more
AHREFS vs. SEMrush
When you are looking to build an impactful website, using SEO tools… The post AHREFS vs. SEMrush appeared first on WebMo… Read more
Best Lightweight WordPress Themes for Performance
Whether you run a personal site, a business portfolio, a storefront, or… The post Best Lightweight WordPress Themes for… Read more
Best Email Marketing Services for Small Business
Email marketing is unusual in the advertising sphere. Unlike some forms of… The post Best Email Marketing Services for S… Read more
Constant Contact vs. ConvertKit
No matter what type of website or blog you run, you likely… The post Constant Contact vs. ConvertKit appeared first on W… Read more
ActiveCampaign vs. MailChimp
ActiveCampaign and MailChimp are both popular marketing automation tools. MailChimp delivers an… The post ActiveCampaign… Read more
AWeber vs. Mailchimp
Email is a powerful marketing tool for gaining new customers and increasing… The post AWeber vs. Mailchimp appeared firs… Read more
15+ Best Angular Admin Dashboard Templates of 2020 – Users Choice
We have compiled a list of best Angular templates for you. These offer you to start your web application and help you bu… Read more
Apple Search
Google, Google, Google For well over a decade Google has dominated search to where most stories in the search sphere wer… Read more
Overcoming Webmaster Depression
This year is a rather easy year to be depressed. ;) COVID-19, fearmongering media, polarized hyper-charged social media,… Read more
Declining Visitor Values
Late Funnel SEO Profits Before the Panda update SEOs could easily focus almost all their energies on late funnel high-in… Read more
How to Read Google Algorithm Updates
Links = Rank Old Google (pre-Panda) was to some degree largely the following: links = rank. Once you had enough links to… Read more
Easy for You
To Teach, One Must Learn One of the benefits of writing is it forces you to structure your thoughts. If you are doing so… Read more
New Age Cloaking
Historically cloaking was considered bad because a consumer would click expecting a particular piece of content or user… Read more
Managing Algorithmic Volatility
Upon the recently announced Google update I've seen some people Tweet things like if you are afraid of algorithm updates… Read more
New Version of SEO Toolbar
Our programmer recently updated our SEO toolbar to work with the most recent version of Firefox. You can install it from… Read more
China Still Censoring Google, Now Globally
Google Gets Out of China In March of 2010 Google announced they would no longer censor their search results for China: e… Read more
Increasing Time on Site
Changing User Intents Google's search quality rater document highlights how the intent of searches can change over time… Read more
Revenue Quality & Leverage
The coronavirus issue is likely to linger for some time. GERMANY PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY PRESIDENT SAYS OUR ASSUMPTION IS T… Read more
Subscription Fatigue
Subscription Management I have active subscriptions with about a half-dozen different news & finance sites along with ab… Read more
Favicon SEO
Google recently copied their mobile result layout over to desktop search results. The three big pieces which changed as… Read more
Brands vs Ads
Brand, Brand, Brand About 7 years ago I wrote about how the search relevancy algorithms were placing heavy weighting on… Read more
Internet Wayback Machine Adds Historical TextDiff
The Wayback Machine has a cool new feature for looking at the historical changes of a web page. The color scale shows ho… Read more
Dofollow, Nofollow, Sponsored, UGC
A Change to Nofollow Last month Google announced they were going to change how they treated nofollow, moving it from a d… Read more
New Keyword Tool
Our keyword tool is updated periodically. We recently updated it once more. For comparison sake, the old keyword tool lo… Read more
AMP'd Up for Recaptcha
Beyond search Google controls the leading distributed ad network, the leading mobile OS, the leading web browser, the le… Read more
The Fractured Web
Anyone can argue about the intent of a particular action & the outcome that is derived by it. But when the outcome is kn… Read more
Keyword Not Provided, But it Just Clicks
When SEO Was Easy When I got started on the web over 15 years ago I created an overly broad & shallow website that had l… Read more
How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Brian McCullough, who runs Internet History Podcast, also wrote a book named How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to… Read more
Google Florida 2.0 Algorithm Update: Early Observations
It has been a while since Google has had a major algorithm update. They recently announced one which began on the 12th o… Read more
A Darker Shade of Gray
Google's original breakthrough in search was placing weight on links & using them to approximate the behavior of web use… Read more
Left is Right & Up is Down
Probably the single best video to watch to understand the power of Google & Facebook (or even most of the major problems… Read more
Grist for the Machine
Grist Much like publishers, employees at the big tech monopolies can end up little more than grist. Products & product c… Read more