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Productizing your service business, with Brian Casel

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2018

In this episode, I interview Brian Casel, the owner of Audience Ops, a productized content service he's built to employ 30 people. He also runs a podcast and course on helping others productize their services.

Recently a bug surfaced in Yoast…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Recently a bug surfaced in Yoast SEO that effected search rankings for some. It only effected users that updated from an earlier version of Yoast SEO to Yoast SEO 7.0-7.0.2 (specifically those versions). If you think this pertains to you,…

Brian Jackson over at Kinsta has…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Brian Jackson over at Kinsta has a complete guide for anyone who needs to set up Yoast SEO on a WordPress site. It goes into great detail, and the screenshots are very helpful — perfect for a client who needs a…

Network effects and WordPress — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 10, 2018

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss the power of network effects and how they relate to WordPress’ increasing market share and maturity.

Mark Jaquith explains how he solved…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Mark Jaquith explains how he solved a problem with Yoast SEO sitemaps on large WordPress sites. Yoast’s dynamic generation of the sitemap was making his server time out, so he came up with a way to generate a static sitemap.…

The WordPress product market is completely different now

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2017

BusinessPlanet

Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

BusinessDesign

When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

Teaching what you learn with Joe Casabona — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

June 7, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Joe Casabona discuss learning WordPress, as well as teaching it, including the things they find most important to learn.

What a “plugin aware” Calypso looks like

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2016

In my last note, I started talking about the plugin awareness stuff in Calypso and it morphed into a more broad editorial about Automattic's relationship with the WordPress community. But what does plugin awareness really mean in Calypso? After getting…

Calculating a true related posts algorithm…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Calculating a true related posts algorithm in WordPress is often associated with poor performance, but Yoast is introducing a different way in an upcoming release of the commercial version of the Yoast SEO plugin. The method they are using is to utilize the existing browser-based content…

GoDaddy has announced a new customized…

Dan Knauss

December 9, 2016

GoDaddy has announced a new customized experience for ones (especially non-developers) to get a WordPress site. The experience includes a startup wizard with the ability to choose a theme as part of a four step process. They are also including…

The art of being a self-employed web consultant — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 24, 2016

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Brian talks to Diane Kinney about web-based freelancing in the real world.

Joost de Valk was interviewed on…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Joost de Valk was interviewed on the Marketing Nerds podcast, talking about SEO (shocker!) and WordPress plugins. The podcast is only 30 minutes long, so it's a quick investment. I rarely get to hear Joost on any podcast, so I…

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2016

Hosting

ManageWP has long been a leader in the small group of businesses that want to help you manage your WordPress installs from one place. The six year old service has gone through a long development phase, where they rebuilt everything…

Also in big-plugin-release-land, Yoast SEO 3.3…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Also in big-plugin-release-land, Yoast SEO 3.3 includes a whole new tab for content analysis (for pairing with the traditional SEO analysis).

Alex Ivanovs has a detailed post…

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

Design

Alex Ivanovs has a detailed post on the Pagely blog on how to make your blog more searchable. Beyond installing your typical SEO plugin, Alex's suggestions touch on how to audit your site, making your design more mobile-friendly, and examining your…

Productizing your service business, with Brian Casel

Recently a bug surfaced in Yoast…

Brian Jackson over at Kinsta has…

Mark Jaquith explains how he solved…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Teaching what you learn with Joe Casabona — Draft Podcast

What a “plugin aware” Calypso looks like

Calculating a true related posts algorithm…

GoDaddy has announced a new customized…

The art of being a self-employed web consultant — Draft podcast

Joost de Valk was interviewed on…

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Also in big-plugin-release-land, Yoast SEO 3.3…

Alex Ivanovs has a detailed post…

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