You don’t have to be rich to have an online presence. You don’t have to find loopholes in proprietary platforms and hope that they never change their terms of service. You own all of the content that you create on a WordPress site and have the liberty to move it to a new host if you need to, or switch your theme if it fits your mood. That was Josepha Haden Chomphosy on WordPress is Free(dom) episode of the WP Briefing Podcast , speaking about the four freedoms of open-source software. Those four freedoms are core to how WordPress is developed. A lot of the updates we bring you this month will resonate with those freedoms. WordPress now powers 40% of the web W3Techs reported that WordPress now powers 40% of the top 10 million websites in the world ! Every two minutes, a new website using WordPress says, “Hello world” ! For the top 1000 sites, the market share is even higher at 51.8%. Over the past 10 years, the growth rate has increased, which is reflected by the fact … [Read more...] about The Month in WordPress: February 2021
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It’s about time traditional polling methods were revaluated
As multiple recent elections on both sides of the Atlantic have proven, the pollsters can quite easily be wrong. To find out more about the crisis of confidence in polling, we caught up with Don Vaughn, Ph.D., Head of Product at data analytics firm Invisibly, which claims to have predicted the outcome of the US presidential election to the greatest degree of accuracy. According to Vaughn, a fundamental overhaul to traditional polling methods is needed, with an emphasis on real-time research. Check out our list of the best customer feedback tools right now We've built a list of the best survey tools for customer research Here's our list of the best WordPress survey plugins out there What is the difference between a poll and a survey? Polls traditionally focus on the measurement of one thing, for example an election race. Surveys typically involve a broader series of questions on a topic and attempt to collect more data. Why do you say that traditional polling … [Read more...] about It’s about time traditional polling methods were revaluated
How to boost crawl budget with SEO pruning
One of the most underrated concepts in SEO is that of a crawl budget. This article will look at what it is and why it is such an important subject, especially for very large websites with tens of thousands of pages. In a nutshell, the crawl budget is the number of webpages Google’s spiders crawl on your website, on any given day. It depends on the size of a website, the number of errors Google encounters on a website and the number of links to the website. Google's bots are usually busy and occupied with trying to access millions of web pages. In fact, the entire SEO domain is on its toes to crave attention from crawlers. SEO specialists want bots to crawl as many of their web pages as possible, to ensure more and more pages are indexed and ranked. We've built a list of the best WordPress SEO plugins out there Here's our list of the best SEO keyword research tools right now Check out our list of the best onpage SEO tools available About the author Julia … [Read more...] about How to boost crawl budget with SEO pruning
Phishing, ransomware cases drop in 2018, but SingHealth hack ‘stark reminder’ of cyberthreats: CSA
SINGAPORE: The number of phishing attacks, ransomware incidents and website defacements in Singapore dropped in 2018, yet last July’s SingHealth hack - the country’s most serious data breach in its history - is a “stark reminder” not be lulled into false security. Mr David Koh, CEO of the Cyber Security Agency (CSA), said in the foreword of the Singapore Cyber Landscape 2018 report released on Tuesday (Jun 18) that as cyberthreats grow in scale and sophistication, it is no longer a question of "if" but "when" an online attack will hit the country. “Even as we strive to make our systems as secure as possible, it is imperative that we respond to an incident swiftly, robustly and decisively,” Mr Koh wrote, adding that the SingHealth hack was a stark reminder to push further in Singapore’s cybersecurity efforts collectively as a nation. That said, the latest CSA report showed that there were fewer incidents of certain forms of cyberattacks. Website defacement, for one, fell … [Read more...] about Phishing, ransomware cases drop in 2018, but SingHealth hack ‘stark reminder’ of cyberthreats: CSA
Best website builder in 2021: Your step by step guide
Squarespace A great choice for creatives View Now at Squarespace See details Weebly The store's the thing View Now at Weebly See details Wix.com Use AI for near-instant gratification View Now at Wix.com See details WordPress.com It's not just for blogs View Now at Wordpress.com See details Strikingly A strikingly different approach to design View Now at Strikingly See details Show More (3 items) Duda Slick, but not for amateurs View Now at Duda See details GoDaddy Would you like social media and marketing with that website? View Now at GoDaddy See details PageCloud Pros can skip templates and start with a wireframe View Now at PageCloud See details For very large businesses, building a website is a megaproject, requiring a team of full-time developers who assemble sites the old-fashioned way, with lots of custom code … [Read more...] about Best website builder in 2021: Your step by step guide