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Website migration checklist: 11 steps for success

July 31, 2024 news

Website migration is complicated. Eliminate errors and help streamline the site migration process with these steps. Website migrations are a part of an enterprise’s natural evolution. Companies may migrate because they’re rebranding, going to the cloud to scale their site easier or numerous other reasons. However, while migration may seem simple on paper, one misstep can lead to SEO problems, such as: 404 errors. Lost rankings. Missing content. Lost revenue. Before beginning your migration, you’ll want to run a site crawler to inventory your pages. The goal is to have a list of…

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Better RSA creation and optimization in 3 steps

July 30, 2024 news

Learn key mistakes to avoid when running Google responsive search ads, plus expert optimization tips to enhance your ad strategy. Whether you’re a seasoned PPC marketer or just starting out, creating and optimizing Responsive Search Ads (RSAs) is challenging. At SMX Advanced 2024, I highlighted the biggest pitfalls marketers face with RSAs, which make a difficult task even harder. Explore these common RSA mistakes and catch the full session replay to turn your ads around. Mistake 1: You’re looking at the wrong metrics You’ve heard a million times that you need to use the “right…

Venezuela election 2024: Will Nicolás Maduro be re-elected for next six years? 10 updates

July 29, 2024July 30, 2024 news

The future of Venezuela hangs in the balance as voting is underway on whether to reelect President Nicolás Maduro, whose 11-year tenure has been marked by ongoing crises. Venezuelans are casting their votes in a consequential presidential election this Sunday, with the results potentially bringing significant political change or continuing policies blamed for the country’s severe economic downturn. Here are the top ten latest updates: 1. Whether incumbent President Nicolás Maduro or his primary challenger, retired diplomat Edmundo González, emerges victorious, the outcome will resonate across the Americas. Supporters and critics…

Reddit Limits Search Engine Access, Google Remains Exception

July 27, 2024July 28, 2024 news

Reddit blocks most search engines from recent content. Google retains access due to a $60 million deal. This move aligns with broader trends in content monetization and AI training data protection.Reddit has recently tightened its grip on who can access its content, blocking major search engines from indexing recent posts and comments. This move has sparked discussions in the SEO and digital marketing communities about the future of content accessibility and AI training data. What’s Happening? First reported by 404 Media, Reddit updated its robots.txt file, preventing most web crawlers from…

Google Cautions On Blocking GoogleOther Bot

July 26, 2024July 28, 2024 news

What Is GoogleOther? GoogleOther is a generic crawler created by Google for the various purposes that fall outside of those of bots that specialize for Search, Ads, Video, Images, News, Desktop and Mobile. It can be used by internal teams at Google for research and development in relation to various products. The official description of GoogleOther is: “GoogleOther is the generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development.”…

Shorter-dated US yields lower after data as curve steepens

July 25, 2024 news

Yields on shorter-dated U.S. Treasuries fell on Wednesday but rose on longer durations as investors digested a flurry of economic data to gauge the health of the economy. A closely watched part of the U.S. Treasury yield curve measuring the gap between two- and 10-year Treasury notes , an indicator of economic expectations, was at a negative 13.4 basis points after steepening to a negative 13.0, its least inverted since Oct. 23. An inversion of this part of the curve is widely viewed as a reliable signal that a recession…

WordPress Releases 6.6.1 To Fix Fatal Errors In 6.6

July 23, 2024July 24, 2024 news

A week after releasing the troubled version 6.6, WordPress has released another version that fixes seven major issues including two that caused fatal errors (website crashes), another issue that caused a security plugins to issue false warnings plus several more that created unwanted UI changes. Fatal Errors In WordPress 6.6 The one issue that got a lot of attention on social media is one that affected users of certain page builders and themes like Divi. The issue, while relatively minor, dramatically changed the look of websites by introducing underlines beneath…

ATIF Signs Two New Listing Advisory Agreements

July 22, 2024July 25, 2024 news

ATIF Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: ATIF, the “Company” or “ATIF”) announced that its subsidiary ATIF Business Management LLC has entered into a listing advisory services agreement with two U.S. based technology companies. ATIF is expected to receive 2% of equity in shares from each company as service fee. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will provide the clients with IPO advisory services and lead the clients’ IPO process through the company’s team and the engagement of third parties for audit, valuation, stock exchange advisory, investor relations and other IPO services. Liu…

OpenAI GPT-4o Mini Wallops Competition

July 20, 2024 news

OpenAI rolled out GPT-4o mini, a replacement for GPT 3.5 Turbo that is more powerful than other models in its class. Because it’s hyper efficient, GPT 4o mini will make AI available to more people at a cheaper price through better end-user applications. GPT-4o mini GPT-4o mini is a highly efficient version of GPT-4o that is cheaper to run and is fast. Despite it’s designation as “mini” this language model is outperforms GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 turbo, as well as solidly outperforming Google’s comparable model, Gemini Flash 1.5. Preliminary scores by…