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I am excited to officially announce the first release of Live Topics coming in our April release of Invision Community for selected cloud plans! Live Topics is a hosted live chat and question-and-answer event that is converted into a forum topic upon completion. It combines the fun and togetherness of a live event with the permanence of a forum topic allowing you to continue the conversation long after the event has ended. Recap: The first look at Live Topics including a video showing the main features. I know many of you on our community have already had sneak peeks and have been patiently waiting, so without further ado, let's get into it. Who is Liv…

Controlling the consumer experience of your brand is key to how people see it and how they interact with it. For SEOs, the part of brand experience that we control the most is the SERP, yet traditional ways of measuring brand reach on the SERP often fall short. Today, Dominic talks through an example of how they fall short, and how we can do better. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! [HEADING=1]Video Transcription[/HEADING] Howdy, Moz fans. I'm Dominic. I am the founder of Piped Out, and I'm here to talk to you about measuring your brand. If you have a product, controlling the consumer experience of that br…

We have just released new versions of our products: WoltLab Suite 5.5.10 WoltLab Suite 5.4.26 WoltLab Suite 5.3.27 Stability releases (third part of the version number, also known as “patch releases”) aim to solve existing problems in the current version. Like every stability release, they do not introduce new features. It is strongly recommended to apply these updates. [HEADING=1]Security Notice[/HEADING] Some forms for editing content only took into account whether the accessing user could edit the content, but not whether the content was also accessible to the accessing user. This resulted in moderators or administrators being able to edit content by c…

Wir haben soeben Updates für unsere Produkte freigegeben: WoltLab Suite 5.5.10 WoltLab Suite 5.4.26 WoltLab Suite 5.3.27 Stabilitäts- und Fehlerbehebungsversionen (die 3. Stelle der Versionsnummer, auch als „patch releases“ bekannt), beseitigen ausschließlich Fehler in der aktuellen Version und führen keine neuen Funktionen ein. Es wird ausdrücklich empfohlen, diese Updates anzuwenden. [HEADING=1]Sicherheitshinweis[/HEADING] Einige Formulare zum Bearbeiten von Inhalten berücksichtigten nur, ob der aufrufende Benutzer den Inhalt bearbeiten konnte, nicht aber ob der Inhalt für den aufrufenden Benutzer auch zugänglich war. Dies führte bei Moderatoren oder Ad…

“Knitting the Islands”, by Miriam Ellis A happy and lucky St. Patrick’s day to all my readers! I’ve seen it again and again that small and local businesses became successful due to a great inspiration and some little happenstance bit of luck that got them noticed. Today, I’d like to celebrate with you by offering a shamrock of three ideas I’ve seen taking off in my mother country of Ireland. You may not replicate the exact business model, but do take away the underlying concepts which I strongly believe could succeed in the US. I’ll also point out how you can help luck along with a little creative marketing. Share this article with your team for brainstorming new campa…

A subfolder, also known as a subdirectory, is a way of organizing the pages on your website. They can be thought of as a way to divide up information or products, depending on your business. Within a subfolder, there can be more subfolders stacked within, like nesting dolls! Subfolders can be great for your website and for SEO. Having clear landing pages for your subfolders is important to both the searcher and the crawler. They are also another way to earn more backlinks, contributing to a greater Domain Authority. A subfolder could be a blog, a product category, an Etsy store, and more! You may not have thought of conducting keyword research or competitive research f…

Note: This does not affect the official Plugin-Store. It will continue to be the familiar secure and trusted sales platform for WoltLab Suite plugins. WoltLab Suite Filebase offers the ability to make files available to users in a structured and organized form. Files can not only be linked externally, but there is also the possibility to offer these files for sale. [HEADING=1]The Payment Feature in WoltLab Suite Filebase 5.5[/HEADING] WoltLab Suite Filebase is the technical foundation of the official Plugin-Store and was developed with the aim of providing a useful tool for customers as well as meeting our own requirements. To this end, WoltLab Suite …

Hinweis: Dies hat keine Auswirkungen auf den offiziellen Plugin-Store. Dieser wird auch zukünftig unverändert die gewohnt sichere und vertrauenswürdige Verkaufsplattform für Erweiterungen für WoltLab Suite darstellen. WoltLab Suite Filebase bietet die Möglichkeit, Dateien in einer strukturierten und organisierten Form Nutzern zugänglich zu machen. Dateien können nicht nur extern verlinkt werden, sondern es besteht auch die Möglichkeit, diese Dateien kostenpflichtig anzubieten. [HEADING=1]Die Bezahlfunktion in WoltLab Suite Filebase 5.5[/HEADING] WoltLab Suite Filebase stellt die technische Basis des offiziellen Plugin-Store dar und wurde mit dem Anspr…

As SEOs, we know how to optimize websites, but what about our careers? In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Noah shares his insights from his own search marketing career path, with tips for those people in the beginning and middle stages of their career. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! [HEADING=1]Video Transcription[/HEADING] Howdy, Moz fans. This is incredibly exciting to be with you here today for Whiteboard Friday. Most of these help you with really cool strategic and tactical stuff, and today we're going to be optimizing something super different. It's your career. It's the most important thing in the w…

AI image generation has taken big leaps forward in the last year. It’s fun to play with. It’s a little bit weird. It can produce some mind-blowing results — and often laughable ones. But is it useful in a marketing context? We decided to find out, and our valiant SEO robot, Roger, was volunteered to be our first test subject. Don’t worry, he was cool with it. He was actually pretty excited to have a machine intelligence to engage with, after spending so much time doling out SEO knowledge to us simple humans. [HEADING=1]Training the model[/HEADING] AI imagery tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 are pretty amazing at creating images of just a…

In this week’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, host Jes Scholz digs into the foundations of search engine crawling. She’ll show you why no indexing issues doesn’t necessarily mean no issues at all, and how — when it comes to crawling — quality is more important than quantity. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! [HEADING=1]Video Transcription[/HEADING] Good day, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. My name is Jes Scholz, and today we're going to be talking about all things crawling. What's important to understand is that crawling is essential for every single website, because if your conte…

One key to keeping software projects and the surrounding communities healthy is keeping friction for all audiences to a minimum. In MyBB, this friction is derivative of user experience and developer experience. Our largest audience is formed by the end users — people browsing online forums, not expected to know what MyBB is, yet benefitting from fine-tuned visuals, phrases, and flows that come out-of-the-box. At the same time, we target two groups further down the forum assembly line, for whom both UX and DX apply. For site owners and community leaders, the software needs to be approachable and intuitive — without requiring particular knowledge of languages and tech…

You may have noticed many of the Invision Community apps getting updates recently. Over the last several months we have revealed revamped Events, Gallery and Downloads apps and have listened to how you have been using them. As a result, we are including some further app refinements as a direct result of that feedback. Gallery Many of you asked for more customisation options with the new overview page so it is now possible to hide and show different sections of the overview using simple toggle settings without the need for theme edits. You can also adjust the number of items that show. Searching for existing Gallery images to include in topics has been a …

If you own or market a local brand, your camera has never been a greater business asset. Early smartphones may have inspired the selfie, and it’s a fantastic idea to photograph the owner and staff of a local business to prove both its authenticity and approachability, but in a commercial context, it’s the “shelfie” that’s I see coming to the fore as a signal to both customers and search engines of what to expect on your premises. For the past few years, I’ve strongly encouraged local businesses to photograph their most popular goods and services and add these pictures to their Google Business Profiles, but shelfies are different – instead of snapping a single product, …

[HEADING=1]vBulletin 5.7.3 Changes and Updates[/HEADING] vBulletin Connect 5.7.3 is now available to download. vBulletin Cloud sites will be automatically updated in the coming weeks. [HEADING=1]Third-Party Logins[/HEADING] Google Authentication has been refactored. The routines have been updated to Google's new APIs and use OATH2. Twitter Authentication has been repaired with the current Twitter v2 APIs. However, registration via Twitter Authentication does not work at this time. [HEADING=1]RSS Module[/HEADING] A new RSS Module is available for custom pages. RSS Feeds will be cached between updates. An option is available to specify how frequent…

[HEADING=1]vBulletin 5.7.3 Changes and Updates[/HEADING] A preview release of vBulletin Connect 5.7.3 is now available to download. [HEADING=1]Third-Party Logins[/HEADING] Google Authentication has been refactored. The routines have been updated to Google's new APIs and use OATH2. Twitter Authentication has been repaired with the current Twitter v2 APIs. However, registration via Twitter Authentication does not work at this time. [HEADING=1]RSS Module[/HEADING] A new RSS Module is available for custom pages. RSS Feeds will be cached between updates. An option is available to specify how frequently a feed is updated. Due to the nature of gathering…

If it feels like Google search is changing faster than ever, it’s not your imagination. Google reported an astonishing 4,367 “launches” in 2021, up dramatically from 350-400 in 2009. On average, that’s nearly a dozen changes per day. Many of these more than 25,000 changes were undoubtedly very small, but some were outright cataclysmic. What can we learn from nine years of Google rankings data, and how can it help us prepare for the future? [HEADING=1]Is the algorithm heating up?[/HEADING] Thanks to our MozCast research project, we have daily algorithm flux data going back to 2014. The visualization below shows nine full years of daily Google “temperatures” (w…

We love talking about our big new features, such as GraphQL and Live Topics, but we also like to shine a light on some of the smaller updates we've made to existing applications. In this blog, I'll take you through a few changes to the Download app and an update on our various API integrations. Downloads After the success of the Events and Gallery refreshes, we've brought some of those changes over to the Downloads application. Our Invision Community March '23 release will feature subtle theme updates to bring the Downloads app more in line with other applications. In addition, we have also added a grid mode for files. As in other areas of the platform, you can …

This week, Shawn talks you through the ways your site structure, your sitemaps, and Google Search Console work together to help Google crawl your site, and what you can do to approve Googlebot’s efficiency. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! [HEADING=1]Video Transcription[/HEADING] Howdy, Moz fans. Welcome to this week's edition of Whiteboard Friday, and I'm your host, SEO Shawn. This week I'm going to talk about how do you help Google crawl your website more efficiently. [HEADING=1]Site structure, sitemaps, & GSC[/HEADING] Now I'll start at a high level. I want to talk about your site structure, you…

This week, we're excited to preview some of the UI changes which will be included with Invision Community 4.7.8. These changes result in improved performance for Google Fonts and better contrast for accessibility, while also fixing a few bugs along the way. When combined, these small improvements result in a much more polished UI, so lets dive in and take a look at some examples below! Google Fonts Google Fonts are now imported using the latest version of their API, which includes support for font-display:swap. This CSS property prevents FOUT, or the Flash Of Unstyled Text, where fonts would temporarily be invisible if the Google Font hadn't finished downloading.…