This is what we will be recreating: As I go through creating the sections, I usually think about it in terms of rows – these red boxes are how I’ve broken the rows down. The blue boxes are the columns (from a column block), and the yellow lines are a point of reference so I […]
Free E-commerce for Shops affected by Covid-19
If your brick and mortar store or service has to shut down because of covid-19, I’m offering a free e-commerce shop. This means the only cost to you is a monthly hosting plan of $15. Skip to details here. The only word that keeps coming to mind is ‘crazy’ in these times. Crazy times, crazy […]
DNS Zones Overview
If you aren’t sure what terms like DNS, Domain and IP Address mean, this post is for you! Below, we’ll outline some of the most important terms that you need to know if you are a website owner! Understanding these terms will help when someone asks – “Who is your registrar?” “Do you use cloudflare?”, […]
Exemplary Newsletter Personality – look at this!
When you and I are talking about your content or blog business, I often drone on and on with y’all about keeping your personality in your blog. Forget ‘keywords‘ and ‘long tail’ nonsense… write for your audience! Google loves that! And more importantly, it is the only thing (for most of us) that differentiate us […]
Disclosure Policy Template for Bloggers
A disclosure page is a part of every new project that we do. Every old and new actually. However, there are a ton of these pages that we use a ‘placeholders’ because the page itself is blank. If you’re struggling with what to put on your disclosure page, we have some perfect copy-and-paste examples here! […]
SEO News for November 8, 2019
Here are the questions and the conversations this week surrounding SEO and blogging – specifically a href tags and img tags. How many of you are asking the same question? It goes something like this, “Just so I am clear. It is OK for an image to be linked to Attachment Page, Custom URL or […]
FAQ for SEO
UPDATED: September 22, 2019 The title really says it all. Below are the SEO questions I’ve gathered and their answers. Q: That green light on SEO for WP by Yoast is driving me crazy! Does it have to be green? No! Those are suggestions for placement of keywords. The spirit of the ‘law’ applies here. […]
Google Changes NoFollow rules
“NoFollow” is the tag that we are supposed to use when a link is going to benefit us in some way. For example, an affiliate link, an ad or a sponsored post. All those links are supposed to have “nofollow” in them. Last week Google rocked the SEO world, by announcing that it was unilaterally […]
Hosting, Speed & SEO
Hosts & Speed Hosting makes a big difference to speed. However there are many many good hosts nowadays. If you stick with the ‘old popular ones’ like GoDaddy, HostGator, BlueHost, etc, they will all operate similarly – and will be slower. WPEngine, BigScoots, Flywheel and the managed WP hosts all operate similarly and you should […]