Internet & Web

Getting out of a manual site reputation abuse penalty and continuing business as usual – recleudo.com
We’ve already seen how Finixio/Clickout’s assets were hit with serious penalties in the days following Google’s algorithm update. I have no idea whether those penalties were manual, or algorithmically applied, though I have a hunch they were manual. But they destroyed the ranking of pages that funnelled, collectively, millions of visits a month into a…

Top 10 AI Tools in 2023 That Will Make Your Life Easier
In this article, we explore the top 10 AI tools that are driving innovation and efficiency in various industries. These tools are designed to automate repetitive tasks, improve workflow, and increase productivity. The tools included in our list are some of the most advanced and widely used in the market, and are suitable for a…

OpenAI’s plan to make ChatGPT the ‘everything app’ has never been more clear
OpenAI is making major moves as it sets the table for 2025. To the casual observer, OpenAI has spent the past week flooding the tech world with announcements and rollouts — not all of which gel into any sort of clear product agenda. It’s all part of a holiday-timed event called “12 Days of OpenAI,”…

The 30 Best Fonts of 2024 | Web Designer Depot
2024 has been a great year for type design. Over the past few years geometric sans have been less apparent, with cursive and serifs having something of a renaissance; that trend continued this year. There’s been a very clear fashion for French design. Experimental fonts are more usable than ever. Here — in no particular…
The Little Triangle In The Tooltip | CSS-Tricks
Tooltips are like homemade food: everyone uses them and everyone has their own recipe to make them. If you don’t remember a particular recipe, you will search for one, follow it, and go on with your day. This “many ways to do the same thing” concept is general to web development and programming (and life!),…

Developer Guide: How to Implement Passkeys — SitePoint
This guide explains how developers can integrate passkey-based authentication to enhance security and user experience. It covers the server and client setup for implementing passkeys manually, while also showing how Descope simplifies this process with a visual interface and pre-built flows for easy setup and maintenance. This tutorial was written by Kumar Harsh, a software…

What is Keyword Cannibalization? – Whiteboard Friday
In today’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, Tom Capper walks you through a problem many SEOs have faced: cannibalization. What is it, how do you identify it, and how can you fix it? Watch to find out! Click on the whiteboard image above to open a larger version in a new tab! What is Keyword Cannibalization?…

Three Approaches To Amplify Your Design Projects — Smashing Magazine
There are many ways to elevate a design project from good to incredible. For web and product designers, it’s not just about adding more animations and flair. What it truly comes down to is a reframing of your thought processes starting before the project even kicks off. Olivia De Alba presents three approaches that designers…

Voice Search Optimization At Scale: A Guide For Enterprise Marketers
Smartphones put the world at our fingertips. People have questions that need answering, as well as the services or products they need. All of these things are just a search away, and now, we’ve seen a cosmic shift from traditional search to voice search and voice assistants. Statistically, voice search and assistants are not something…

An academic Great Gatsby Curve – How much academic success is inherited?
To what extent does academic success follow success? Drawing on a dataset of mentor-mentee relations and their citations, Ye Sun, Fabio Caccioli, Xiancheng Li and Giacomo Livan suggest the dynamics of citation and wealth inequality are surprisingly similar. Rankings are ubiquitous: every week, lists of best-selling records, movies, and books are released, and in sports like…