Question: My SEO team recently located a large number of pages on my website that needed to be blocked from Google crawling, so they suggested that I added those pages and directories to my website’s robots.txt file. The pages not only need to be blocked, but removed from Google’s index as well. I’ve already done […]
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WordPress SEO: How To Supercharge Your Website Traffic
SEO – An area of WordPress that’s truly fun. It’s definitive, widespread and the rules have been established. There’s probably no larger community of folks on the planet that can guide you and tell you, “Yep, been there and done that.” All the mistakes have already been made, so all we have to do now is […]
How To Enable God Mode in Windows 10
Do you know where to go in Windows 10 if you wanted to defragment and optimize you hard drives? What about if you wanted to view some event logs? Okay, how about changing your time zone or viewing your devices and printers? If you do, that means you are very familiar with Windows. The funny thing is, […]
Add More Footer Links to My XenForo Site?
Question: Like everyone else who installs XenForo forum software, I see a set group of footer links down at the bottom of my website. Here’s what they look like. I changed the phrases for some of them, so they’re not totally default, but I haven’t added or removed any of the links. I was thinking […]
4 Must Follow Tips For Getting Started with Social Media
I’ll be the first to tell you – I’m late to the party. I’m no expert at social media. I’ll also tell you that I like to dig into what I’m not familiar with. And when I say dig, I mean really dig. What I have very little experience with one day, I’m near expert […]
Structure of an HTML Web Page
A lot has changed in the past few years when it comes to structuring a web page. HTML is less generic than it used to be and there are new tools to help offer much more meaning to our pages. There are fewer workarounds and more answers and logical ways of doing things than ever […]
HTML5 Semantics
In this post, I’m going to talk about HTML5 and semantics. I’ll cover a description of what the study of semantics is and why it’s important. I’ll also touch on meaning itself and how it can make our web pages and sites make a heck of a lot more sense. Now, while my intro to […]
How Long Does it Take for DNS to Propagate?
Question: A few days ago I moved my website to a new host. I have my domain name registered through GoDaddy and I logged in and changed my nameserver setting to point to the new server where my website is being hosted. Not long after I made that change, I was able to see the […]
Technical SEO Case Study: Why Do Website Rankings Keep Dropping?
Let me guess – this is your situation: Your website experienced a ranking drop and you made some changes to it in an effort to raise them back up again. The problem is, they kept on dropping. Lower and lower and lower. It seems like everything you’ve done to get the rebound you’re after has […]
How Can I Make Columns in Gutenberg?
Question: I’ve been working with WordPress for over a decade and I’m probably the last person on earth to still use the classic editor. I never thought I’d like the new block editor (Gutenberg), but after playing around with it for a post or two, I’ve fallen in love with it. It’s extremely elegant and […]