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Sites are being crippled by bot attacks every minute of every day and it’s only going to get worse. A LOT worse. VERY soon. Here’s what you need to know about the different types of attacks and how to protect your site from being down, hacked, or trashed completely. Listen to the podcast
Improve site performance 300%. This is the first in a series of posts on exactly how to improve site performance. Everything in the series is based on exhaustive testing that details the test conditions and exactly what each change improved.
I’m excited to check out the new themes from Yoast. They’re built on the Genesis framework, and that’s just where the goodies start. There’s a new theme customizer, new built-in widgets, and more.
Website hosts and domain providers are struggling to keep your site live in the face of bot and hacker attacks that are increasing in both frequency and intensity. Here’s what you need to know and what you can do to help your site stay available.
Schema markup for authorship – it’s time for you to get serious about adding the proper tags to your site or face a Google penalty. Google now considers any page tagged with authorship code as rich snippet spam. There is a simple way for you to get right with Google. And I’ll show you how in this quick video.
A fast loading site makes more money. That was the main motivation behind site owner Ann Drake contacting me to help her tweak On Sutton Place. Ann is big on Pinterest, where images are everything. She has also acquired several lucrative AdSense accounts.
Her site was running slow and it was costing her money.
The graphics for both Pinterest and ads presented their own challenges with performance. But image optimization was the least of the problems, and not where we started optimizing this site.
What follows is a full case study on the steps we took, and are still taking, to improve the performance and user experience with On Sutton Place.
WordPress 3.8 got its first minor update. The release candidate for beta testers became available on Jan. 22nd and the final version is scheduled to be released to the public today, Jan. 23rd.
Ranking at the top of Google is the brass ring most bloggers aim to grab. But, that’s not the only way to increase traffic to your site. In fact, off-site SEO, authority, and influential friends are critically important to your site’s success too.
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