In this day and age, page speed is everything. Not a day goes by without a new article, Google representative, or SEO expert telling us that optimizing for speed is among the most important things you should do for your website. And they’re right, of course! Page speed influences SEO in many ways. Here’s an overview of how page speed and SEO go together. What is page speed? “Page speed”
Web Sockets, Web Workers, Service Workers… these are terms you may have read or overheard. Maybe not all of them, but likely at least one of them. And even if you have a good handle on front-end development, there’s a good chance you need to look up what they mean. Or maybe you’re like me and mix them up from time to time. The terms all look and sound awful
Do you remember your first A/B test you ran? I do. (Nerdy, I know.)
Databases have become essential backend storage tools for nearly every application imaginable. If your application contains data that needs to be accessed, you’ll need a database to store and retrieve it quickly. A database management system (DBMS) is software designed to use, retrieve, and define rules to validate and manipulate the data in the databases. There are many DBMS types: relational, object-oriented, hierarchical, and network-based. Choosing a suitable DBMS is
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is what we do to ensure our website is as visible as possible to our target markets. We do this by optimizing our website for users while following search engine guidelines. As any SEO professional knows, SEO advice is always changing due to search engine algorithm updates and discoveries by other SEO professionals. However, there are a couple of best practices that we have found
When it comes to affiliate marketing, tools are your friends. They can help you get more traffic and do your job both faster and easier—especially as your business scales up. I’ve been building and growing affiliate websites for nearly a decade and have recently made a “multiple six-figure” exit from one of my websites. If it wasn’t for the following tools that I used on a daily basis, this wouldn’t
Every once in a while, the blogging zeitgiest seems to coalesce around a certain topic and it’s like the saved articles in my bookmarks folder are having a conversation. The conversation sitting in there now is all about CSS Gradients and I thought I’d link some of the more interesting pieces. Day 22: conic gradients — Manuel Matuzovic looked at conic gradients on Day 21 of his 100-day series about
It’s hard to believe, but 2023 is just around the corner. And with a new year comes new challenges and opportunities for email marketers. So what trends should you be aware of? In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the most important email marketing trends for 2023. We’ll also provide tips on how you can stay ahead of the curve and continue to succeed in the
React UI component libraries are useful tools to help you create stunning interfaces for your React-based software applications and websites. Although you can write your own code for each feature or functionality you want to include in your design, using a UI component library makes the entire task easier and faster. It allows you to use the exact part you want in your design, such as a button, without having
Websites: if you build them, they will come. Well, only if you have high-quality content, that is. When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), gone are the days when you could “cheat” the system by strategically inserting keywords into titles and the openings of paragraphs. Today’s SEO is far smarter than it was a decade ago, as it now has an eye for high-quality content rather than simple keyword
