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Query Deserves Freshness (QDF) puts OHM blog top of Google

2 days after publishing this news blog [oasthousemedia.co.uk/web-browser-trends-have-changed – 16-8-22] it went top of Google out of 2.22 million results, this was probably a Google reaction to a popular ‘news’ search on an active website. We’ve blogged about this Google search algorithm in the past, it’s call ‘Query Deserves Freshness (QDF)’, a Google re-ranking function that ranks popular subjects (ie: news) in order of ‘freshness’. What this means is if you use WordPress’s powerful post publishing feature you can put your web pages top of Google even if the competition is corporate and the results in millions. Unfortunately it’s a brief moment of fame that will be replaced by the...

Post comments spam hack on WordPress

Post comments can be a gateway for spam. All posts have a comments option for feedback, when we set up posts for all clients we turn off this comments box to stop spammers adding content. We are now having to change the ‘settings/discussion’ settings to stop hackers adding comments to your posts. So keep an eye on the Dashboard ‘comments’ section and if you see something like this example contact us and we can do a quick fix without charge Why does this happen? Historically WordPress is a blogging platform that morphed into web design. The page post system used to blog is a unique and very powerful way of...