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WordPress now offers Website Development

Jan 14, 202159 min
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WordPress now offers Website Development
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/built-by-wordpress/392315/#close
Automattica is the business arm of WordPress, the one that runs WordPress.com, WooCommerce, JetPack, Gavatar, and Akismet. Will introduce web development business with site prices starting at $4900. Matt Mullenweg suggests the move targets Wix and Squarespace rather than traditional website designers.

Googlebot now crawling HTTP / 2 – also known as H2, btw...
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-notifications-http-2-googlebot-crawling/392439/
http 2 is a new hypertext transfer protocol that speeds communication and data transfer between browsers, servers, and various bots. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2)

Google Search Console adds report for News publishers
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-console-adds-report-for-news-publishers/392287/

Selling Domains based on SEO Value – Google says, “that’s silly”
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-on-selling-domains-based-on-seo-value-30756.html
I bid ... them good luck. Selling a domain based on the "SEO footprint" sounds a bit like selling a car based on the topped-up gas tank. John Mueller, Jan 9, 2020

Smith is not live
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-smith-algorithm-is-not-live-30747.html
Siamese Multi-depth Transformer-based Hierarchical (SMITH) Encoder. – it’s a research paper rather than a part of or filter to the algorithm

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