I’m so happy when my customers use Siteground. Having an SSL certificate is more important now that ever. (That means you have that https in the front of your URL instead of just http.) Siteground uses Let’s Encrypt to provide free SSL certificates. When I first started looking into Let’s Encrypt, it looked complicated to…
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Speed Up Your Site By Compressing Images with Way2enjoy Image Optimizer
Recently I got a comment on one of my articles making me aware of a new plugin, Way2enjoy Image Optimizer and Resize Image – WordPress Image Compression. I’m always looking for ways to speed up my clients’ sites, so I thought I would give this plugin a test drive. I saw it got good reviews,…
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Cloudflare: A Simple Answer to a Faster Site
Now that site speed plays such an important role in SEO, I’ve had more and more customers ask me how to speed up their site. The sad news is that there aren’t too many easy ways. Most of the things you can do take significant time to make just a tenth of a second difference…
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Permalinks for Blog Posts
I’ve said this before, but there are still people not following this simple rule. For SEO purposes and ease of finding things, you should set your permalinks to : /%category%/%postname%/ One reason is that not using a category in front of your blog post URL’s means that every blog post is weighted equally with your…
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How to Transcribe Your YouTube Videos
Transcribing your YouTube videos is great for SEO and for accessibility, but it’s not always clear just how to do it. Here’s what to do: Log into your YouTube account and click on your profile pic in the top right and click on Creator Studio. Find the video that you want to edit and click…
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Not Using HTTPS? Prepare for More Penalties
In October 2017, Google will begin phase two of its plan to label all HTTP pages as non-secure. Beginning in October, Chrome will label HTTP pages as insecure if users can input any data. Google highlights this will apply to any page with a search box. Time to switch to HTTPS! Read the full article…
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Best Way to Add Internal Links to Your Pages and Posts
If you’ve ever wanted to add more internal links to your site – which are great for SEO, then you might have struggled with all the copy and pasting required. And if the article title had quotes in it or other punctuation, then you might have gotten some funky results. Here’s the best way to…
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