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WordPress vs WordPress
There’s been a lot of drama in the WordPress community this week, as people are questioning the relationship of wordpress.org and wordpress.com in Google’s search results.

With great power comes great responsibility
From today, I’m taking on additional responsibility at Yoast. We’re recognising that with a new job title – I’ll now be Head of SEO.

Silence is golden; security vs SEO?
One of WordPress' most basic security features creates a tricky SEO challenge. Empty files designed to protect against directory traversal leave behind dozens of dead end and headaches.

The agency triangle
Most conventional businesses are subject to the laws of the project management triangle. But agencies and consultants have an extra challenge.

Google have to improve their structured data reporting
Google's structured data reports are increasingly confusing, misleading, and are going to become worse over time.

Tackling toxic profile spam on WordPress.org
I've discovered something rotten at the core of the WordPress.org website, which is poisoning the whole web.

Website Security: Sensitive docs, robot blocks, and file-system locks
There’s a potential security flaw buried deep in millions of websites. Is yours exposing sensitive business information and documents?

How to do SEO in the year 20xx
It's the same as it's always been. You need to try harder. To do better. To improve everything about your business.