Once you’ve either purchased a premium SSL certificate or gotten a free SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt.com (either through their service directly or through your host as I detail in this video on how to make your WordPress site SSL compliant), you can enable SSL on your website in a number of different ways, most notably …
Making your WordPress site SSL compliant has never been quicker or easier. Despite the numerous benefits of SSL (security, user peace of mind and trust, and SEO boosts), many webmasters are still holding out. This is typically because of the perceived cost or technical curve associated with it. Today, it’s never been easier to make …
I’ve talked about why website load time is so paramount in today’s internet. I’ve covered how to check your website’s speed and more importantly, how to speed up your website. This brings us to the question of the day: what is Google Accelerated Mobile Pages and how does it relate to site speed/rankings. Mobile users, …
What makes a good clickbait title and why you should you use them? It gets you clicks and drives traffic to your site! Let us show you how. The title of an article or blog post may seem like the easiest part of writing your content, but it actually matters a lot. Your title has …
It’s spring cleaning time, a time of the year I like to give all of my website a good polish to make sure that they’re performing at top condition to rank well in the SERPs regardless of the content I’ve got on them. This also makes for the perfect opportunity to share with you how …
SSL, or secure sockets layer, is an added layer of security which all websites should have in this day and age. Because of the number of benefits of SSL, hundreds of companies have popped up which offer this encryption based security service to websites along with the corresponding certificates which browsers read to ensure that …
It’s long been said that speed kills, but in the modern age of the internet, it could be your LACK of speed which is killing your chance at ranking well or converting on your site’s goals. Slow loading time alienates site visitors, costs you in potential income in any number of ways, and disappoints user …
This is your friendly mid-year reminder that dead links always hurt your presence online both in the eyes of your visitors as well as search engines, so cleaning them up is always a mini SEO audit project to keep in mind. Search engines like Google are businesses like any other and as such they want …
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If you haven’t been paying attention, Google Webmaster Tools has been rebranded as Google Search Console. It’s essentially the same information, just with a new name to reflect its greater emphasis on search engine traffic to give you insights on related search engine information such as the search terms bringing you traffic and where you’re …
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You know what I’m talking about, that little oftentimes green padlock which is displayed next to the URL of the page you’re on in your address bar, depending on your browser. A coalition of web presences have pushed for greater online security for internet users, and that accountability falls on the webmasters themselves. Attention around …
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