ABBA fans of the US unite! It's time to pull out the platform boots, bellbottom flairs and starched collars as ABBA Mania once again hits American shores. Transported from London's West End and multiple tours of the UK, the show is an astounding tribute to the beloved music of one of the most successful acts in musical history. Don't miss this chance to relive the best of the ABBA catalogue at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, ON, February 9, 2017

She may be a pint-sized pop princess but don't for a second doubt if Ariana Grande packs a punch! Dangerous Woman is one of the biggest albums of the year, and the long-awaited supporting tour is here! A huge step up from My Everything, Dangerous Woman is a mature effort from the young star, featuring a bunch of starry collaborators - Future, Nicki Minaj - and countless pop belters, such as the sultry title track and the finger clicking 'Into You'.

A pop music force of nature, Lionel Richie has been making sweet music for over 50 years, both with the funk outfit The Commodores and as a solo artist. He has an Oscar, five Grammys and 16 American Music Awards to his name, with his songwriting talents matched only by his megawatt charisma and old-time showman stage persona. 2017 see Richie heading out on a nationwide tour, with a very special guest in tow - none other than pop diva Mariah Carey, taking a break from her Vegas residency.

Jon Bon Jovi and Co. head out on an extensive tour in 2017 in support of their new record This House Is Not For Sale. The band have previously played a handful of special listening parties, but this is the first series of dates on which most fans will have the chance to hear the group's new material..

Award winning vocalist and pianist Norah Jones is one of the most sensational artists of our time, and her unique blend of jazz and pop, and trademark sultry vocals appeal to audiences from a variety of genres.

One of the most successful pop singers in history, the great Neil Diamond has now been in the business for half a century, a fact he's celebrating with a huge 50th Anniversary Tour throughout 2017. A member of The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, and more than 125 million record sales under his belt, Neil's best known tracks include 'Sweet Caroline', 'Red Red Wine' and 'I'm a Believer' (originally performed by The Monkees).

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30 Most Important Google Ranking Factors

Google uses about 200 various factors to rank a site.

Apparently.

It doesn’t matter how accurate this number is. The sheer magnitude of it is still intimidating. Especially for someone only starting to rank their site.

But here is the catch. Not all those factors are equally important. Some are indeed a must haves but others might not make much of a difference in your market. Many you don’t even have much direct influence on.

If you just launched your site and try to find out what aspects of SEO you should focus on first, here’s a treat for you. A list of the most important Google ranking factors a beginner should know.

On-Page factors:

The way your page is optimized has the most profound effect on its rankings. Here are the page optimization factors that can affect its search visibility:

Site factors:

There are certain site-wide factors that can affect your site’s search visibility as well:

Off Page factors:

When ranking your pages, Google looks at factors outside of your site as well. Here are some of the key ones:

Domain factors:

Lastly, your domain can affect your rankings as well. Some of the domain signals aren’t as strong as they used to be, there are few things worth paying attention to:

WordPress 5.0.1 Security Release – Immediate Update Recommended

WordPress 5.0.1 was released Wednesday night, less than a week after the much anticipated release of WordPress 5.0. This security release fixes seven security vulnerabilities, a few of which are quite serious.

Sites running versions in the 4.x branch of WordPress core are also impacted by some of the issues. WordPress 4.9.9 was released along with 5.0.1 to address the issues for those users.

We have not seen attempts to exploit these vulnerabilities in the wild yet, but given the number of sites impacted we expect that to change.

The speed at which these security issues were discovered, reported and fixed is a testament to the strength of the WordPress community working together.

Vulnerability Details

Sensitive Data Exposure

Team Yoast discovered that the user activation screen could be indexed by search engines in some uncommon configurations, leading to exposure of email addresses, and in some rare cases, default generated passwords. WordPress has addressed this by stripping the activation key used in the URL, and storing the value in a cookie instead.

PHP Object Injection

Sam Thomas discovered that contributors could craft meta data in a way that resulted in PHP object injection. This looks to be similar to the 2 arbitrary file delete vulnerabilities fixed in WordPress 4.9.6. This vulnerability allows an author to assign an arbitrary file path to an attachment. The file path supplied by the author uses the phar:// stream wrapper on a previously uploaded attachment which leads to object injection utilizing a “feature” of the PHAR file type which stores serialized objects in the metadata of the PHAR file. Sam Thomas presented this technique at BlackHat earlier this year.

Unauthorized Post Creation

Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies discovered that authors could create posts of unauthorized post types with specially crafted input. The requirement that an attacker would need at least ‘author’ level privileges makes the likelihood of this being exploited on a widespread basis very low.

Privilege Escalation / XSS

Privileged XSS

XSS That Could Impact Some Plugins

Unauthorized File Deletion

Karim El Oeurghemmi discovered that author-level users could alter metadata to delete files that they weren’t authorized to. This issue stems from the 2 arbitrary file delete vulnerabilities fixed in WordPress 4.9.6. The fix in WordPress addressed how attachment files are deleted, by restricting the file paths to the uploads directory, but did not address the issue of authors having the ability to change the attachment paths to arbitrary files. An author can use this to delete other users’ attachments.

What To Do

We have released firewall rules to protect our Premium customers against the vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited. Sites running the free version of Wordfence will receive them in 30 days.

Sites on WordPress 5.0 should update to version 5.0.1 as soon as possible. Those with automatic updates enabled for WordPress core should have already been updated, but given the nature of the vulnerabilities we recommend you check your sites manually just in case.

Sites running WordPress 4.x versions should update to version 4.9.9 as soon as possible. We’ve heard conflicting reports about automatic updates working for this upgrade. If you need to manually upgrade, the 4.9.9 update can be downloaded here.

You can find the official release announcement from the WordPress team here.