YouTube Officially Lifts Monetization Ban on COVID-19 Content via @MattGSouthern
YouTube has lifted the monetization ban on content that is either about, or references, COVID-19. Although some exceptions apply. The monetization ban had already been lifted for a limited number of channels, but now the [...]
Google Delays Launch of New Partners Program to 2021 via @SusanEDub
In light of the rapidly changing events around COVID-19, Google Ads sent an announcement they are suspending the planned changes to their Partners program until 2021. “As we continue to adapt to COVID-19 across the [...]
Bing Introduces New Ways for Site Owners to Control Their Search Snippets via @MattGSouthern
Bing is rolling out new tools for site owners to control how their site appears in Bing’s search results. “For a long time, the Bing search results page has shown site previews that include text [...]
Spotify’s Self-Serve Ad Studio Exits Beta to 18 Markets Worldwide via @SusanEDub
Despite short-term uncertainty in early trends of reduced audio consumption during COVID-19, Spotify has remained a winner the past few years in the audio streaming space. They are continuing to move forward with their ad [...]
WordCamp Europe 2020 Is Moving Online This Summer
On Monday, the WordCamp Europe team announced it would hold its annual event online from June 4-6. The move comes after initially postponing this year’s physical event because of the COVID-19 pandemic currently sweeping the [...]
Google Launches a Series of Blog Posts Highlighting the Value of SEO via @MattGSouthern
Google has published the first in what will be a series of blog posts dedicated to SEO case studies. The aim of this series is to share success stories that demonstrate the value of SEO. [...]
Landing Pages – The Ultimate Guide (Best Practices, Examples)
Landing pages are an all but necessary part of marketing campaigns. Yet, crafting one that actually gets you conversions isn’t easy. There’s a lot that goes into a successful landing page, from the images you [...]
How to Speed up WordPress (Optimizations Used on All My Sites)
WordPress is a very powerful and popular Content Management System (CMS). It currently powers over 36% of all the sites on the internet. That means every one in three sites that you visit is most [...]
Adding Block Patterns to Your Theme
From global styles, to entirely block-based themes, the WordPress block editor is aiming high. Amongst the newest experimental features are block patterns. Block patterns are unique, predefined combinations of blocks you can use and tweak [...]
How to Create Colorful Text Background Scroll Animation with Divi
Creating text background scroll animation is a unique way to add colorful moving textures to the text on your website as a user scrolls down the page. With Divi, the process is surprisingly easy once [...]
Should You Discount Your SEO Services Because of Coronavirus? via @5le
The Coronavirus pandemic is wreaking a horrific toll on all citizens of the world. When the final tally is in it is unlikely that anyone will not be impacted in some way or another. Right [...]
What is WordPress?
WordPress is currently the fastest growing CMS software. Initially, WordPress was largely associated with blogs as its main functionality was to allow easy blog experience. Yet, over time, its developers expanded its functionality to allow the creation of more complicated websites and grew it into a content management system rather than a blogging tool. WordPress is considered the easiest to use CMS thanks to a very friendly interface. It also has an amazing number of plugins which allow extension of its functionality in various possible ways.
