Curated links #5

It’s time for another list of curated articles from across the web, I’m sure you’ll find something interesting:

Check out Chase Jarvis’ Q&A video explaining how to get more eyeballs on your website

Here’s a great free tool for testing your website speed (in real browsers worldwide)

Four ways Google is making SEO easier, one of which is their new SEO Starter Guide

And some useful articles from the Yoast SEO blog:

• Great tips on whether you should update or delete old content on your site
• Best practices for SEO-friendly URLs
• Especially useful for WordPress beginners, don’t get overwhelmed by the temptation of the green bullet in Yoast SEO

Interested in positioning yourself as an expert and winning more clients? Check out this great (albeit a bit abstract) podcast episode with Bryan Caporicci and Blair Enns:

An interesting piece on how image metadata can impact web performance and security

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While on this topic, here’s Why You Shouldn’t Care About Google PageSpeed Insights, and then How Loading Time Affects Your Bottom Line

Important news for WordPress users recently:

• WordPress 5.0 is Coming… Will Your Site Be Ready?
• The new Gutenberg page editor in WordPress: everything photographers need to know
• Yoast SEO 8 embraces the Gutenberg sidebar

Short on time? Check out this quick listicle: Top 9 Marketing Tips For Photographers

Let’s take a look at the cameras in the new iPhone Xs, Xs Max, and XR:

Here’s why your photography website must have a privacy policy (article links to a good $10 template you can use)

And some captivating opinion pieces

• Why Your Camera Gear Doesn’t Matter
• Why Dedicated Cameras Will Always Be (Optically) Better than Smartphones
• What you Create for an Audience of One is Much More Likely to Reach An Audience of Millions
• 9 Photographers on the Future Trends of Stock Photography
  Hmm, this is a guest article published on a stock photography blog… Nobody talking about market saturation, micro-stock prices, solo photographers going out of business, etc. :-)

Avid reader? Here’s more stuff for you:

Building the Google Photos Web UI – A peek under the hood

Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience – very very interesting

And finally, here’s the most popular post in recent weeks from my own site, in case you missed it: How to modernize your photography website and adapt it to recent industry changes