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The WordCamp.org URL migration is complete and should help address some “significant SEO problems.” 🔧
The structure has changed from year.city.wordcamp.org to city.wordcamp.org/year.
Yoast SEO 3.1 partially rolls back the snippet editor design, after 3.0 feedback made it clear that users preferred the old way. The new editor is much improved from 3.0, but they also include the real time feedback feature the implemented in 3.0 — so you now see a little progress bar that highlights green…
AwesomeMotive — the company lead by Syed Balkhi — has acquired Yoast’s Google Analytics plugin, which boasts over one million active installs of the free plugin, plus a commercial version that was generating revenue that was at least low six figures per year. However, the plugin was never truly a focus for Yoast, and over…
If you use Yoast SEO for WordPress, you might be interested to know that Yoast has made free Yoast SEO plugin tutorials for every tab on every page of the Yoast SEO configuration pages.
Corey Maass and Cory Miller go live to discuss the creation and launch of a WordPress product they have partnered to build. Crop.Express originated as a solution to a common problem Maass experienced. Miller loved the idea and wondered how to build this into a plugin to solve problems within the WordPress workflow. This is a candid conversation about the evolution of partnering to develop a WordPress product.
Joost de Valk has a proposal for improving SEO on WordCamp sites so more of them can be indexed by Google. Judging by the response so far to this tweet, it looks like this is a common problem for WordCamp organizers.
Sparked by Magne Ilsaas‘s ideas in The WordPress Enterprise Paradox, Tom started a Twitter thread and hosted a live discussion with Magne and others at enterprise WordPress agencies this week. Their main concern is the challenges that arise from not having a well-defined brand and market that allows “WordPress for the Enterprise” to stand out — without being ties to a particular WordPress company or host. After getting an outline of the problem as it stands today, I asked Tom what might help differentiate “Enterprise WordPress” as a collective or entire ecosystem of agencies operating within it. Can open-source values of sharing and cooperation shape a unique global identity for enterprise WordPress agencies? Is it time for an inter-agency association or “guild” to take on these challenges?
