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Wir haben soeben Updates für unsere Produkte freigegeben: WoltLab Suite 5.4.16 WoltLab Suite 5.3.22 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]Aktualisierung einer bestehenden Installation[/HEADING] Öffnen Sie die Administrationsoberfläche und rufen Sie den Menüpunkt Konfiguration > Pakete > Pakete auflisten auf. Klicken Sie dann auf den Button Updates suchen, diesen finden Sie rechts oberhalb der Paketauflistung. […

We have just released new versions of our products: WoltLab Suite 5.4.16 WoltLab Suite 5.3.22 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]How to Apply Updates[/HEADING] Open your Administration Control Panel and navigate to "Configuration > Packages > List Packages". Please click on the button "Search for Updates" located in the right corner above the package list. [HEADING=1]Notable Changes[/HEADING] The list below include…

[HEADING=1]XenForo 2.2.9 Released[/HEADING] XenForo 2.2.9 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability. In addition to the usual bug fixes and improvements, we've continued to improve compatibility with PHP 8.1 and added support for self-hosted licenses to more easily sign outgoing emails with DKIM as per this recent suggestion by... Read more Continue reading...

Traffic has spiked — hallelujah! This is what you’ve been working towards! Pause: before you start celebrating, it’s good to do your due diligence and make sure that glorious, spiked blue line under “All Users” is in fact genuine users visiting the site, and not spam. The checklist to determine whether or not increased traffic is spam is not too difficult to follow. You’ll probably know in 10 minutes whether it’s time to do a celebratory dance, or if you need to solve a problem. Either way, today you’re going to do something valuable. Before taking action on that pesky spam traffic, be sure to read this article in full. It’s important that spam traffic is identif…

If you’re an SEO like me, you probably spent at least a year or two at an agency where you worked with other experienced SEOs. On large teams, there’s always someone to learn from, bounce ideas off of, or to help finish projects on time. But what happens when the SEO team is just you? This is the question I had when, after several years agency-side, I moved in-house to be the first and only SEO the organization ever had. More than three years later, I’m still a team of one. I had to figure out how to accomplish my goals without the built-in support of an established team, and although there are challenges, being the only SEO is an opportunity to flex your knowledge,…

To celebrate Invision Community turning 20-years-old (an eternity in Internet years), I interviewed the company's founding fathers. Ahh the good ol' days. Remember simpler times? This new video interview touches on Invision Community's past, present and future thanks to the invaluable insight from @Charles, @Matt and @Lindy. In our chat together, these gentlemen... Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane and reflect on the company's origins Explain the power of community amidst the social media boom Offer advice for new community leaders on how to grow Share some of the biggest changes to the platform Recant fond memories from the earlier days Reveal…

Working with developers to align on technical and SEO priorities is a challenge faced by many in-house SEOs, and by SEO agencies offering recommendations. How do we start conversations and support initiatives that get developers and SEOs all working towards the same goal? Is Core Web Vitals the common ground we need? In this conversation with Moz Developer, Lucas Rasmussen, we explore his recent project aimed at improving our A/B testing experience and how it overlapped with Core Web Vitals. Question: What is your role at Moz? Lucas: I’m a Web Developer at Moz. I manage the Moz website and content management system (CMS). Question: What was the main object…

A constant stream of developments and issues are the simple building blocks that shape our dynamic local search environment but the task of keeping up with the ongoing news can be complex when you’ve already got plenty to do. The first quarter of 2022 brought us some new opportunities (and a few problems) which you might have missed due to general busy-ness. Today’s column is a quick roundup of interesting happenings that merit your awareness for the sake of the local businesses you market. [HEADING=1]1. Google really wants local businesses to discover Pointy[/HEADING] Colan Nielsen spotted Google advertising free access to Pointy, right in the Google Business Pr…

In 2008 we announced the introduction of the phpBB wiki for development related documentation. In the past few years we also introduced several other locations which contain (development) documentation. Over time more and more documentation about Extensions and phpBB development moved over to these new locations. Taking this and the fact that it's not feasible to maintain all of these locations into account, we have decided to merge the wiki into the other documentation locations. All development related documentation can now be found in the development docs on area51: phpBB Development Documentation — phpBB master documentation Extensions development documentatio…

High fives and fist bumps for each and every person who took the time to submit pitches for this years’ community speaker spots! Our selection committee read, watched, and researched, whittling things down to a shortlist of top contenders and then read, watched, and researched some more to determine if a potential speaker and their talk would be a perfect fit for the MozCon stage. We take lots of things into account during our review, but ultimately there are three main factors that determine our final selections: Strength of the pitch (e.g., value, relevance to the audience, etc.) Can the content reasonably be delivered in the time allotted? Does i…

Improving SEO with your community is a hot topic with community managers. Many minor tweaks can move the needle in the right direction, but the most significant changes come with increasing crawl efficiency. I recently wrote about changes we made to Invision Community to improve crawl efficiency. By removing thin content pages and being laser-focused on what you want to be crawled, you present a more efficient site ready for crawling. Crawl depth is another metric that impacts crawl efficiency. The more 'clicks' Google and other search engines have to make to get to your content; the less efficient your site is for crawling. With a community, this can present proble…

Back in August, we analyzed 10,000 SERPs and found that Google was rewriting 58% of the title tags we were able to track. In September, after some serious objections from the SEO community, Google released the following statement: Based on your feedback, we made changes to our system which means that title elements are now used around 87% of the time, rather than around 80% before. This immediately raises two questions. First, has the situation improved? Second, why the huge mismatch between our numbers (and similar numbers by others in the community)? [HEADING=1]Rewrites by the numbers[/HEADING] We collected new data on March 2, 2022 from the MozCast 10,000-k…

SEO is unlike any other digital channel. It does not and cannot live in a silo, while something like a paid search program can be run by a single person with minimal help. From our experience, the biggest deficiency in SEO campaigns is not a lack of understanding of the craft, rather, it’s the roadblocks that occur during implementation and cross-team collaboration. Great ideas can be presented and discussed, but taking an idea from a whiteboard or a slide to actually living on a site where it can impact performance can be difficult. Whether in-house or on the agency side, blockers to success often come from internal site teams or long development queues. The key to…

Since the dawn of the Internet, forums have remained a dominant force on the worldwide web. Invision Community not only survived the social media boom, we thrived. Our community forum platform is an industry leader and continues to serve thousands of businesses year-round. If community forums are tried and true, then why is the average Internet user bombarded with pleas to follow a brand’s Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts versus a forum? It's often the case that when decision makers consider building a community, they look to social media tools first and overlook the power an owned community platform has. It's rare to find an instance where exclusiv…

Whether it’s participating in the latest challenge, using a trending TikTok sound, or putting your own spin on a viral recipe, we all know social media trends provide a great opportunity to spread brand awareness and grow your brand’s social media following. But they can also be utilized to boost search engine results, driving traffic and sales to your website. If taking advantage of social media trends in one way or another isn’t a part of your brand’s digital marketing strategy just yet, read on. This article will show why it’s important to jump on board and provide you with a list of actionable steps to ace the game. [HEADING=1]Examples of search results influe…

I’ve heard over and over from fellow SEOs that they just “fell into” the industry and didn’t know much about it beforehand. Well, I am no exception. I searched far and wide for a marketing job prior to graduating college in 2018, but it was my sister who introduced me to the concept of SEO. She suggested I apply to the agency she worked at, so I quickly started Googling to learn more about the concept. After my brief research and a few interviews, I found myself at a large digital marketing agency. I loved working at the agency with its fast-paced work day and continuous opportunities to learn, but after nearly three years of working with clients, managing roadmaps, an…

We’ve been re-optimizing Brafton's blog content consistently since 2018. It’s been one of the main SEO strategies we’ve used to increase our blog traffic from 20,000 to 200,000 monthly visitors over the last three years, and we’re continuing with this strategy into 2022 (and probably beyond). For the purpose of this study, we wanted to answer the question, “How well does content re-optimization work, and is it worth your time?” But first, let’s back up and get some definitions out of the way. [HEADING=1]What is content re-optimization?[/HEADING] In its simplest form, content re-optimization is the process of updating existing content with new material in orde…

Greetings everyone, We are sorry to announce the immediate release of phpBB 3.3.7 “The Book of Bertie, Part Two” to address an issue some users experienced when updating to 3.3.6. Unfortunately the issue wasn't noticed during testing and has only surfaced after the release of 3.3.6. The fixed issue may have resulted in role-based group or user permissions being accidentally removed. As a result of that, some users were no longer able to see forums when visiting phpBB. If you have already updated to phpBB 3.3.6, please check your tables for [iCODE]phpbb_acl_groups[/iCODE] and [iCODE]phpbb_acl_users[/iCODE] tables for changes compared to before the update to 3.3.6 (re…

We have just released new versions of our products: WoltLab Suite 5.4.15 WoltLab Suite 5.3.21 WoltLab Suite 5.2.20 WoltLab Suite 3.1.28 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] It has been brought to our attention that in the log of cronjobs, there may be an unintended execution of HTML in case of an error. This can occur if, for example, a cronjob retrieves data from an HTML page and, in the event of an …

Wir haben soeben Updates für unsere Produkte freigegeben: WoltLab Suite 5.4.15 WoltLab Suite 5.3.21 WoltLab Suite 5.2.20 WoltLab Suite 3.1.28 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] Wir wurden darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass es im Protokoll von Cronjobs im Falle eines Fehlers zu einer ungewollten Ausführung von HTML kommen kann. Dies kann dann auftreten, wenn ein Cronjob beispielsweise Daten…