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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!
On the 26th of July, 2021, the well-known plugin Autoptimized released a new update that allows for deferring in-line JavaScript. Here’s the new option as seen in the settings screen: This new ability, lets you final defer inline JavaScript so that it doesn’t mess up your page load times. But should you enable it? And […]
On the 26th of July 2021, Google announced that it would be rolling out something called the “Link Spam Update” over the next two weeks. Unlike most core updates, however, this time Google is actually asking website owners to change their behavior – namely add rel=”sponsored” to their affiliate and guest post links. Last year, […]
Have you ever come across a website that’s almost an exact duplicate of yours? It can be a somewhat disorienting experience! It seems incredible that a 3rd party would take your content and claim it as its own without attribution. They even copy the images! These people are called “scrapers”, and site scraping can be […]
WordPress Gutenberg changed the focus of the editor from writing, to “page building”. While a lot of people including myself hated it at first, its benefits have begun to grow on me. And with the bugs ironed out, I can unequivocally say that it’s far better than the original editor. Now I use blocks myself […]
I’ve been writing on the web since 2008. And since then, I’ve seen websites come and go. It’s often dizzying to see how quickly a site can rise, only to fall and never be seen again. I’ve seen pages that rank for a year or more for certain keywords, and then simply…vanish. Sometimes I’ve been […]
I have very positive feelings towards Yoast. I remember switching to it years and years ago and have been using it continuously on all my websites since. It’s one of the first plugins I install and I still use it on my sites today. I’ve often considered buying the Yoast SEO premium version – because […]
Website design is full of fads. Color combinations come and go. App design moves from “skeuomorphism” to “flat” design – like the simulation of a page turn in a books application instead of just sliding into the next page. Some of these fads stick around, whereas others fall by the wayside. I feel that the […]
Well, that happened relatively fast! After years of telling us that cookies are going away and preparing the industry for Google Chrome’s shift away towards alternatives. But when push finally came to shove, and Google rolled out a definitive timeline, the backlash was swift. Here on NameHero, we were one of the first to call […]
As a website owner, you want your visitors to realize that your site contains the most up-to-date information. This means that you frequently have to include dates in your titles and content. But let’s be honest it’s not just for visitors, but also search engines. Some of us might wrinkle our nose in distaste at […]
With Google’s latest “Page Experience” update, a lot of websites that heavily invested in AMP are going to find the return on that investment severely diminished. This is for two reasons. First, the emergence of the various facets of page speed as ranking factors has propelled website owners to pay a lot of attention to […]