Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you have a solid website, getting more of the right audience to visit the site is a great thing. If you get more of those kinds of folks on your site, you’re likely to make some sales. However, if your sole focus is on gaining more website traffic, you’re gonna have a bad time. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLess than two years ago I shared that 64% of Google searches don’t lead to an external website, which I thought was a massive number (which it was). Now that number has climbed to 68% and I suspect it will only get higher. The fact that more than 2/3 of visitors to Google never click […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIncreasingly, consumers are doing a lot of research before they get to your website (or even start to look for your website), so if you’re not able to answer their question before they find you, you don’t have a chance. As Rand Fishkin said in a recent post on LinkedIn: “Well, friends, bad news. No […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently saw a post on LinkedIn from Adelle Kehoe that posited that ChatGPT started sending a lot more traffic to websites beginning on May 7, so I dug into it a bit further. Her reasoning was that ChatGPT “started surfacing more prominent links to brands in its answers“, which indeed seems to be true, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this week, Google made a change to the search box on their website that is likely to cause huge ripples across the web. Google themselves call it their “biggest change in 25 years”. So what changed? The classic, simple plain text Google search box is now built to primarily handle AI queries. While you’ll […]
Most business websites do not suddenly become ineffective overnight The decline usually happens gradually. Slowly enough that companies often fail to notice the warning signs until performance problems become difficult to ignore. Traffic begins stagnating. Lead quality weakens. Bounce rates increase. Conversion rates quietly decline. Users spend less time engaging with content. Sales teams start…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve had my concerns about the effectiveness of schema markup on websites, and a recent study from Ahrefs tends to agree with that idea. Schema markup, while seemingly useful, may not offer any real benefit when it comes to helping your website rank higher. What is schema markup? I won’t get too deep into schema […]
As the global population of photographers swells, so do their digital libraries, leaving everyone with the same question: where and how to share their best work. Flickr was among the first online communities designed to address that dilemma, and it remains one of the best. Some demand sweeping overhauls or argue the price isn't justified.
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Gerald Undone, well known for his very detailed and technical reviews of cameras, is done reviewing cameras. "I don't want to do this anymore," the long-time creator and camera reviewer says in a new video titled, "I'm Retiring."
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If you're like me, you loathe and despise the toxic mental ordure that YouTube often plasters up and down the right side of each video page, such as POLITICAL DEMAGOGUERY in MIXED CAPS to PIQUE your OUTRAGE enough to KEEP YOU WATCHING YOUTUBE instead of doing something PRODUCTIVE! [insert thumbnail of someone looking amazed here.]
At a certain point, I started to notice that there was more…
Photographer and university student Megan Tucker created a browser-based photography conditions forecaster, LightCast Suite, to help fellow photographers decide when it's worth heading out with their camera gear.
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U.K. filmmaker Guy Loftus has launched Rushes, stylized rushes, a new video hosting and sharing platform designed to fill the void left by a reshaped Vimeo. The platform is built by video creators, for video creators.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the early days of the internet, many businesses set up their websites to essentially be a billboard. They’d have a page or two of static content, and that was about it. Given the technical limitations at the time, that was understandable. In 2026 though, treating your website as a billboard is still far too […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA guy reached out to me a few weeks ago because he “needed a new website”. When pressed for why he felt the need for that, his response was simply that “all of the content is so far out of date“. He wasn’t wrong. They hadn’t published a blog post in five years, two staff […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesGenerally speaking, AI bots on the web are a bad thing. They’re consuming resources and stealing all of our content, but blocking them might make things worse. As I’ve shared with many people over the last year, I don’t want AI bots to crawl my site, but I really don’t want them to not crawl […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen people fill out the contact form on your website, where does that information go? When I ask companies about this, the answers run the gamut from powerful systems like Salesforce to solid systems like Pipedrive, to shakier “systems” like Excel spreadsheets, and some just leave them in their email inbox and sort them out […]
From shutdown to sudden revival, CreativeLive is relaunching with live classes, expanded subjects, and a Reddit AMA as it re-engages photographers and creatives worldwide.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteYour company has a website. Depending on what they do, they might even have 2 or 3 or 75 sites. Having a website is a great first step, but caring for it is an essential second step. If you have a site and never take care of it, you’re essentially treating it like a billboard […]
Flickr is celebrating its 22nd birthday, a remarkable achievement. To mark the occasion, Flickr shared some interesting data and insights into how photographers use Flickr, which cameras they own, and what types of shots they like to share the most.
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