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Social Media SEO And Why It Matters

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

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Social media search engine optimization (SEO) can mean a few different things. Social media SEO can be leveraged as a traffic source in getting attention back to your site. Likewise, social media pages themselves can be optimized according to some of the same SEO standards that apply on your self-hosted website. In this article, you will see a bit from both angles and learn how you can apply them to your own SEO strategy. In this article, you’ll learn about:

Content Gap Analysis – Closing the SEO Gap Between You and Your Customers

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

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There are a few different types of “content gaps” that most people mean when they use the term. Content gap analysis sometimes means comparing your content alongside your competitors and seeing how you rank against how they rank. But there is a different approach to content gap analysis that takes a comprehensive glance at what you have to offer. The other type of content gap analysis involves filling gaps in your content that potential customers may be falling through. In this article, we’ll be focusing on the latter type.

What is Mobile SEO? 6 Ways to Optimize Your Mobile SEO

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

Mobile SEO is the practice of enhancing your website for mobile devices. From user experience to overall look, it places a priority on ensuring your website shines across all mobile devices.

In a world where nearly everyone has a smartphone in their pocket, it’s also becoming more important every day.

What is Nextcloud?

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

In an online environment that has increasingly come to depend upon cloud-based storage, you may find yourself looking for an open-source solution that can be installed on a wide variety of platforms. One such solution is

Cheap Hosting? What to Consider in a Hosting Plan

Updated on January 23, 2024 Guest Contributor

There are a lot of factors to consider when you’re a small business owner setting up a website. You know that you need a hosting plan to get your website online, but what does that really mean? You may be tempted to take the first cheap hosting plan you find, throw a site online, and call it a day. If the only thing you look for is cheap hosting, instead of

PHP 8: What’s New

Updated on March 5, 2024 InMotion Hosting

PHP 8.0 is here, just one year after PHP 7.4 was released in November 2019. Some of the most popular content management systems (CMSs) including WordPress and Moodle depend on the scripting language as part of the LAMP Stack:

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RHEL, CentOS 8, and CentOS Stream: Enterprise Linux

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

One of the most popular Linux operating systems (also known as distros) is CentOS. CentOS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), a Linux distro designed for commercial applications. The most recent version of CentOS is CentOS 8. At the end of 2021, CentOS 8 will be phased out and replaced with CentOS Stream for continued support and development. In this article, we will explore the concepts of RHEL, CentOS 8, and CentOS Stream and discuss how they relate to one another.

What is Jetpack for WordPress?

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

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In the world of WordPress, the focus has been on making the visual editor – Gutenberg – the standard editor for the majority of WordPress users. Within that circle, there are a series of elite plugins that virtually every website—no matter how big or small—introduces into the ecosystem. The

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: What’s New?

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

Whenever a new version of an existing piece of software is released, it is important to understand how the new software compares to the current version. In the case of Linux operating systems (also known as distros), a new version can mean new features, bug fixes, security updates, and much more. In this article, we will be discussing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and how it differs from previous versions of Ubuntu.

Using EAT SEO to Optimize Your WordPress Website

Updated on August 20, 2024 InMotion Hosting

Welcome to the InMotion Hosting EAT SEO guide. In this article we will detail all the basics of what EAT SEO is and how you can use it to benefit your blog or business.

We will break down E-A-T, find out how EAT is applied to your website, as well as how to use it to optimize your WordPress website.

What is Link Building?

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

Link building is an effective method of building up your website’s authority.

Whether you’re launching a new website or looking to expand the reach of an existing one, it can be used to make your site work harder for you.

Making the Most of Linux Cloud Server Hosting

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

After talking with a system administrator (sysadmin) about Managed VPS Hosting, I wanted to ask someone else about unmanaged, Linux cloud servers. We generally recommend the cloud server to advanced Linux users who are comfortable in the command-line interface (CLI), or terminal. But sometimes, the best way to learn something is to just go for it and learn as you go.

What is High Availability (HA)?

Updated on July 9, 2024 Guest Contributor

In recent years, virtual private server (VPS) hosting has been a sweet spot between the affordability of shared hosting and the power of a dedicated server. The introduction of cloud infrastructures has taken that concept and extended it even further. The

Making the Most of Managed VPS Hosting

Updated on May 21, 2026 John Joseph

Discover how to maximize your managed VPS hosting with advice from InMotion’s seasoned Linux system administrator. Learn essential first steps like enabling 2FA, setting strong passwords, and disabling unused services. Explore advanced tools for monitoring, automation, and security—from Ansible to web application firewalls. Whether you’re managing cPanel servers or considering cloud hosting, this insider perspective reveals the technical prerequisites and practical workflows that separate VPS novices from power users.

6 Internet Privacy Articles You Should Bookmark

Updated on January 23, 2024 InMotion Hosting

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Who controls your content and distribution? The answer must always be You.

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These days it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know if you can trust big tech with your data and content. Say the wrong thing, upset a random employee at Google or Twitter and it’s “Bye Bye” for you and all the content you created on that platform. It’s almost impossible to make critical business decisions with that level of uncertainty.