Please remember when saving images to upload to the web – photos should be saved as JPGs. PNG is another popular format for the web but it works best on images like logos, with large blocks of the same colour. Anything like a photograph that is made up of 1000s of different colours will always [Continue Reading]
Crawled – currently not indexed
This is a creative use of Google Search Console I’ve come up with for some easy SEO wins And it’s been working really well on all my testing sites. Google Search Console (GSC) is Google’s official stats system for organic search, and has the most useful data about your site’s ranking, visits, clicks, etc. They [Continue Reading]
Homepage FAQ structured data to improve your SEO rank
Using FAQs on your site to get extra traffic from search results Google loves a good Q&A, and they’re great for your search engine optimisation. This is an excellent technique that Google has been responding to very positively recently. It involves a fairly interesting type of structured data. Structured data is a series of tags [Continue Reading]
Trust the WordPress SEO Expert to advise on your WordPress SEO
No one should be surprised to hear blogging is good for SEO. I had an unexpected email interchange with a client a few minutes ago. I’d been recommending blogging to him for months. He keeps making excuses why he can’t; lack of time, what would be write about – the usual string of things. But [Continue Reading]
A few ‘key words’ about keywords
A lot of SEO professionals are still selling their services based on a very outdated idea of how SEO works. Anyone telling you they target a set number of keywords really isn’t doing SEO right. Firstly, an important terminology definition. The term keywords has meant a few different things over the past 20+ years in [Continue Reading]
Using WordPress as a static site generator
My WordPress site is so fast, I’m not even sure I can call it WordPress anymore. Static site generators are awesome. They create blindingly fast sites, with very few drawbacks (more on those later). But I’ve been using WordPress since it was a small blogging platform call b2. I’m used to it, I like it, [Continue Reading]
Fill in your social media profiles
Far too many WordPress sites end up with empty social links I see this all the time; in the header or footer of WordPress sites, a series of little social media icons that links to – nothing. A lot of WordPress themes have sections for you to fill out your social profiles, so those little [Continue Reading]
How to find your Google rank
Searching for yourself is a terrible idea I still get asked a lot about discrepancies between what a client sees when they search for themselves, and either the official stats, or what their friend might see, etc. So this is a refresher about why you shouldn’t search for yourself as a way to measure your [Continue Reading]
Moving email between servers
There are plenty of reason to move servers for your website, but email is often an afterthought. Even though it’s something we use hundreds of times a week. Speed issues, cost and possibly (hopefully) needing to upgrade to cope with all your traffic are all excellent reasons to consider a server move. Moving the website [Continue Reading]
Turning off comments in WordPress
I get asked this a lot. You’ve made your WordPress site, launched it, then noticed all the empty comment sections and wondered where they came from. Commenting in WordPress is turned on by default. To switch it off, got to: Dashboard > Settings > Discussion and untick: Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and [Continue Reading]