Let’s Talk SEO, Structured Data & Backlinks

The WPToronto East and WPToronto TO-DOers groups came together last weekend for a couple of lightning talks and a hands-on workshop about SEO. Andy McIlwain presented a lightning talk on the current state of SEO; Robin Macrae presented on adding structured data to improve your site’s appearance in search results; and David Michaels presented on … Read more

Small Business Success

This month’s WPToronto East meetup focused on small business. A recurring theme from our discussion was the importance of “content first”. That is, getting your page content ready before you start building a new website. We took a peek at the new WordPress Websites product from GoDaddy, which uses a unique wizard to ask users … Read more

Fighting Spam in WordPress

This month’s WPToronto East meetup focused on security & privacy. Don Tai shared an in-depth presentation on combatting spam in WordPress, which spurred on some lively conversation about all sorts of related topics. Years ago, Don was contacted by his hosting provider. He was told that his site was using too many resources, despite it being … Read more

Welcome (back)!

Welcome (back) to the new (work-in-progress) WPToronto website! We’ve been talking about doing something with this domain for years. Unfortunately a lofty vision, combined with limited resources, kept anything from actually happening. So, this year, we’re trying something new. 🙂 Our end-game goal hasn’t changed. We still want to make this site a hub of activity and … Read more