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11 Easy-to-Follow Tips to Optimize Your Blog Posts forSEO

But that doesn't mean shoehorning as many keywords as possible. Keyword stuffing doesn't work anymore.How do you optimize your content to be search-friendly? You'll learn how in this post.

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Mar 2023

This day in search marketing history: March 25

Google Panda patent granted

Rounds that matter: Fintech's fortunes, DAO dreams, Asia's reseller revival

Despite the slowdown in venture capital activity, there's still a mountain of money flowing through startups today. TechCrunch+ is launching a series of posts looking at recent, notable venture rounds...

This Week in Apps: TikTok goes to Congress, apps connect to ChatGPT, Microsoft's mobile games store plan

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as co...

How to Mute Everyone

[photo1]Simon HillOnce upon a time, a terrible take on social media might have sucked me into an argument. Nowadays, it simply speeds my curmudgeonly decline. My attempt to break out of the echo chamb...

Why a European mobile operating system can't challenge Android and iOS

Recently, we asked if it was possible for Europe to have a dominant smartphone again. The answer was simple: no, not unless there's some sort of miracle.The reason behind this is multifaceted, but the...

ABL Space Systems scores $60M for rapid response launch for defense customers

Launch startup ABL Space Systems has landed a $60 million contract to build out its "responsive launch" operational capacity, as part of the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Air Force Strategic Funding Incre...

Park These Dangerous Hyundais and Kias Outside

Hyundai and Kia are warning more than 567,000 SUV and minivan owners in the U.S. to park their vehicles outside because the tow hitch harnesses can catch fire while they are being driven or while they...

Climate change enables spread of flesh-eating bacteria in US coastal waters

Cases of a potentially fatal infection from a seawater-borne pathogen have increased off the US Atlantic coast as ocean waters warmed over the last 30 years and are expected to rise further in future ...

United Airlines reveals first eVTOL passenger route starting in 2025

In 2025, United Airlines will fly an air taxi service between the downtown Vertiport Chicago and O'Hare International Airport, using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft it is purchasing fro...

Cops raided Afroman's home, then sued him for using footage in music videos

Seven Ohio cops who raided a rapper known as Afroman's house last summer are now suing the rapper after Afroman made music videos using footage from the raid. The Adams County Sheriff's Office police ...

Twitter to un-verify people who don't pay $8/month starting on April Fools' Day

Four and a half months after the chaotic rollout of paid checkmarks, Elon Musk's Twitter is following through on a plan to remove verification from individual accounts that don't pay $8 per month for ...

Yellowjackets season 2 is more of an appetizer than a feast

Winter was always coming for the Yellowjackets, so it's no surprise that the new season sees the team barely living off bear remains and root tea amidst vicious blizzards and slow, miserable starvatio...

Utah governor signs new laws requiring parental consent for under-18s to use social media

Utah has enacted controversial restrictions that will require minors to obtain the consent of a guardian to use social media platforms, the first US state to introduce such measures. Two laws signed b...

Twitter Blue relaunched has made just $11M on mobile in its first 3 months

Legacy Twitter checkmarks are disappearing on April 1st, Twitter says, and in the future, the only way users will be able to get the coveted blue badge is by paying for a Twitter Blue subscription. Th...

These Are the Most Savage Ways to Start or End an Email

How do you begin your work emails? Do you go with a simple "Hey?" Or are you into formal greetings like "Good afternoon?" or "Salutation, right, trusty, and well-beloved friend?" Or are you one of tho...

What's New on Paramount+ in April 2023

I'm not surprised Paramount+ is launching a Grease TV series. I'm just surprised it hadn't happened already. Glee premiered nearly 15 years ago; how has it taken this long to revive the OG story of pe...

The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is #DeathTok?

This week's Out-of-Touch Guide is a look at the widely different ways technology affects youth culture. On one end of the spectrum, constant connectedness to devices is leading to ridiculous trends l...

Rocket Report: German launch company loses backer; Soyuz-5 may be in trouble

Welcome to Edition 5.30 of the Rocket Report! A hearty congratulations this week to both Relativity Space and Innospace, both of which got their debut missions off the launch pad this week. Making tha...

Dream Chaser is delayed again, raising questions about Vulcan launch plans

The long-awaited debut of a winged space plane will have to wait a little longer. This week NASA updated its internal schedule to show that Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spacecraft will now berth to the...