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I'm a NameHero team member, and an expert on WordPress and web hosting. I've been in this industry since 2008. I've also developed apps on Android and have written extensive tutorials on managing Linux servers. You can contact me on my website WP-Tweaks.com!
Out of all the false information and anodynes that emerge from the SEO community, one piece of advice rings true – internal linking is crucial for good SEO. I’ve gone on record saying that, for the most part, John Mueller doesn’t have any real insight into Google’s SEO practices. But that doesn’t mean that everything […]
Caching is the secret sauce that can transform a slow page into one that loads blazing fast. There are many layers of caching – you can cache on the origin server, a POP endpoint, and even the browser. Using these techniques, you can obtain cache hit ratios of over 90% on networks like Cloudflare. However, […]
It’s important to support your content with what Google calls “secondary content” or “supporting content”. This is distinct from the main content or MC of a website, that directly deals with the topic in the heading or title. A good example of this supporting content is “Related Posts”, and you often see them on the […]
For a long time, I recommended DropMySite for offsite website backups that didn’t impact your site. I even wrote about using DropMySite with NameHero and why it was so good. Compared to other backup solutions, DropMySite was far cheaper and more efficient. It gave you a fixed amount of storage and backup for unlimited sites […]
Your write and maintain your website for human visitors. And yet when you peer into your analytics logs, you see that the vast majority of hits to your server come from bots. These don’t show up on client-side measuring tools like Google Analytics, but they appear on the server logs. Most traffic these days is […]
Ever visited a page from Google in response to a simple query, only to find a huge article that meanders and never gets to the point? Thank the engineers at Google for prioritizing “long-form” content, where shorter articles that get to the point are penalized in the search results. Yes, Google denies this, but those […]
In August 2021, Google released an update, describing how it rewrites titles in the search results. At the time, I was super annoyed at this, and I still think it’s highly presumptuous of Google to assume that it knows better than us what we want to convey. However, there’s not much I can do but […]
Here at NameHero, we give you the freedom to configure your VPS as you wish. But many people aren’t ready for this kind of management, so they opt for a “pre-packaged” VPS instead. These providers use the infrastructure of companies like DigitalOcean and Amazon or Google Compute and install pre-packaged applications that you can manage […]
I’ve been making the case for a while that all businesses should outsource their e-mail to a third party. The reason is that e-mail is a specialized service that requires constant maintenance and configuration. You need to run dedicated software to constantly scan incoming e-mails for anti-virus, and there are dozens of things that can […]
As website owners, we want to make our sites as accessible as possible to the right people. Unfortunately, there’s an inverse trade-off between strict security measures and the possibility of blocking real visitors. For example, I’d recently written a post on rate-limiting on Cloudflare, where we stop spammers from hammering our server with costly requests. […]