A user-first approach to SEO In my last post, I shared how UGC (User Generated Content) helped my nonprofit client create authoritative articles that 1.) saved both of us loads of time and 2.) crushed it in search and social. (Update: that same client’s organic blog traffic is now up …
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Scientists Discover Antarctica’s First Active Methane Seep A team of marine ecologists from Oregon State University has described the formation and development of a new methane seep — a location where methane escapes from an underground reservoir and into the ocean — in the Ross Sea, the High Antarctic. The …
Read More »Mobile First Indexing
Google delays mobile-first indexing deadline to March 2021 Google announced Wednesday that it has decided to give webmasters, SEOs, developers and developers more time to prepare for the mobile-first indexing switchover. The deadline has been moved from September 2020 to March 2021. Previously. Google in early March, before all the …
Read More »App Store Downloads
The U.S. App Store’s downloads have surpassed China’s downloads for the first time since 2014. According to data from Sensor Tower’s Q2 2020 report, out today, the U.S. App Store saw 27.4% year-over-year growth in the quarter, compared to the 2.1% growth for the China App Store. During the quarter, …
Read More »Telomere To Telomere
Researchers Produce First ‘Telomere-To-Telomere’ Sequence of Human Chromosome A team of U.S. and U.K. scientists has generated the end-to-end gapless DNA sequence of the human X chromosome. A telomere is the end of a chromosome that protects the interior of a chromosome from damage during cell division. Image credit: Darryl …
Read More »Exposed Planetary Core
Astronomers Have Discovered the First Exposed Planetary Core Most of what we know about planetary cores is conjecture, on account of the fact that we live on top of ours and have extremely limited access to all of the others. Since none of the planets whizzing around our own star …
Read More »Windows 10 PC With 5G
Verizon’s Lenovo Flex 5G Is the First Windows 10 PC With 5G Connectivity Verizon has been pushing its millimeter-wave 5G for over a year now, but the multi-gigabit speeds possible with this network is of limited usefulness on a smartphone. A computer, though? You might actually want to use …
Read More »Eerie Green Glow
Astronomers Detect Eerie Green Glow on Mars for the First Time The red planet is looking a bit less red today, but that might be a good thing. European Space Agency (ESA) scientists operating the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) have snapped a photo of Mars with an eerie green glow …
Read More »Stunning NASA Video Shows Cassini’s First ‘Grand Finale’ Dive
A new movie sequence of images from Cassini shows the view as the orbiter swooped over Saturn during the first of its ‘Grand Finale’ dives between the gas giant and its rings on April 26, 2017. As Cassini made its first-ever dive through the gap between Saturn and its rings …
Read More »First Enterococci Appeared on Earth during Ordovician Period, Says Study
According to a new study published today in the journal Cell, the enterococci — gram-positive aerobic bacteria and a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections — arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years (Ordovician period), about the time when animals were first crawling onto land. This digitally-colorized scanning …
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