If your website is built on WordPress, you have probably used the Yoast SEO plugin. Yoast SEO is the number one SEO helper plugin for WordPress, (and they also have a module for Drupal). Here’s how it works. For each page or article you edit, you set a focus keyword phrase. Yoast SEO gives you […]
Why Green Dots in Yoast Aren’t Moving Your Rankings
Shared Hosting Won’t Cut It For Your E-commerce Site
I’m going to cut right to the chase. Shared hosting is inadequate for your e-commerce site. Period. End of story. As a site owner, I admire the fact that you’ve made it this far running on the hosting that you’ve had. But that hosting company you’re with? The one that’s less than $20 a month? […]
Panel Discussion: Where Do You Start With WordPress SEO?
Recently, I was very graciously asked to be part of a panel discussion on where to start with WordPress SEO. This was for the WPBlab show, hosted by Jason Tucker of WP Watercooler and Bridget Willard of WordImpress. Also appearing on this episode was Michael Bay of Flaunt Your Site. Just a few things we […]
Businesses Should Own Their WordPress Plugin Licenses
Today we’re discussing one specific scenario that that hurts business websites. This is when WordPress website owners don’t own the plugin licenses for their site. For those of you who don’t know what that is, many CMS like WordPress have “plugins” that extend the core site functionality. Some plugins are free, and some are paid. […]
Why You Need Automated Backups of Your Website
If you run any sort of business, you already understand how important your website is to your marketing and revenue generation. Most businesses can’t afford to have their websites go down or be out of commission. Bu one of the biggest things that businesses should be doing, but aren’t doing is getting regular backups of […]
bbPress: Add Forums, Topics & Replies to Search Results
Many people who use bbPress may notice that WordPress by default doesn’t return topics, replies, or forums in search results. This can defeat the purpose of having forums on your site, if they aren’t easily searchable. This is a code snippet that will add forums, topics, and replies from bbPress to your WordPress search results.
What Happened To Google Analytics by Yoast?
If you had Google Analytics by Yoast installed on your WordPress website, you were probably surprised last week (mid-April 2016) to see a new icon in its place in the admin menu in the back end of your site. I know I was surprised, as were many other people, to see the name change from […]
Integrating Google AMP and WordPress
In October of 2015, Google debuted a new project called AMP, or Accelerated Mobile Pages. The project is open-source, with other companies like Adobe, Twitter, Vox Media, BBC, The Guardian, and The New York Times also contributing to this project. So what is AMP? And why does it exist? For the last few years, web […]
Add A HTML Sitemap To Your WordPress Site
Most of you reading this already understand the impact of search engine rankings. If you can rank high in Google, more potential customers find your business. The more prospective customers that find you, the more paying customers you should have. Except most of you are frustrated by search engine optimization (or SEO). There are actually […]
Fix Contact Form 7 Configuration Error in Version 4.4
WordPress site admins who use Contact Form 7 may have noticed configuration errors in Version 4.4. You’re not mistaken when you’re wondering if these errors weren’t there before. The most common misconfiguration error warning triggers if you are using a To or From email in your contact form with a domain name than your website. […]