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WordPress 3.9 Beta 2

WordPress 3.9 Beta 2 is now available for testing! We’ve made more than a hundred changes since Beta 1, but we still need your help if we’re going to hit our goal of an April release. For what to look out for, please head on over to the Beta 1 announcement post. Some of the changes in […]

The power of our reviews

We’ve been doing our website reviews for quite some time now. Over the past years, we have reviewed more than 1,700 websites (!) and counting. In this article, I’d like to show you how our reviews can help your website by highlighting some of the recommendations and how the follow-up on that resulted in increased traffic […]

[Real-Talk] 19 Things You Need to Do if You Want to Be Successful

I don’t usually repost stuff. Actually, I never repost stuff. But there’s this one short article I stumbled upon at Business Insider that hit a complete home run with me and I knew I had to share it with you guys. The article’s so true. It’s so accurate. It’s so relevant to anyone who’s doing anything that can be considered “business.”

[Real-Talk] 19 Things You Need to Do if You Want to Be Successful | NewInternetOrder.com

Major update of WordPress SEO (1.5)

Today we’re releasing what’s probably the single biggest update to our WordPress SEO plugin since its initial release. It improves speed, fixes a ton of bugs and edge cases and adds a new bulk title & description editor. On top of that we’ve changed several default settings and added some smaller new features. This post addresses…

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WordPress 3.9 Beta 1

I’m excited to announce that the first beta of WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing. WordPress 3.9 is due out next month — but in order to hit that goal, we need your help testing all of the goodies we’ve added: We updated TinyMCE, the software powering the visual editor, to the latest version. […]

[Giveaway] Here’s Why Social Share Counters Suck, Plus What I Can Give You That Doesn’t (Hint, It’s Simple, Effective, and Free)

If you have a website, which you do, then you obviously need some social media share buttons. But what if the buttons you currently use display all zeros? There are probably very few things that are worse for your social proof than showing such numbers.

[Giveaway] Here’s Why Social Share Counters Suck, Plus What I Can Give You That Doesn’t (Hint, It’s Simple, Effective, and Free) | NewInternetOrder.com

Site reviews: new setup, new pricing!

Today we’ll be releasing a renewed setup for our site reviews. For the past year, we have been limiting the slots for our site review orders to a fixed number per week. The demand for the service is overwhelming, and we would like to thank all customers for the trust you have in our expertise.…

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Better Know a Vulnerability: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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One of the easier to understand vulnerabilities is the CSRF. It’s also one of the most common issues we see in plugins and themes, because people rarely think about it. Imagine that I have a form that takes input, like so: Now, that’s a simple form (and missing a submit button to boot), but you […]

Yoast Research: get to know your audience!

In our latest newsletter, we asked our readers to fill out a survey. We have never done such a thing at Yoast.com before. In this post, I will enlighten you with the purpose of our survey. Yoast Research Since the beginning of this year, Thijs and myself have been doing research. One day a week…

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