Short answer – yes, it’s perfectly fine to block countries to improve your Core Web Vitals (CWV) metrics. Despite how many in the SEO community likes to virtue signal, you’re a business, and as a business, you will do what works. As long as you’re not being deceptive and are not misleading your visitors, you […]
How To Use Regex To Filter The Google Search Console List
Recently, Google introduced a new “doesn’t match regex” filter on the search console which I immediately found a use for! A few months back, I wrote about how to practice content hygiene on your website. One of the biggest difficulties I had with creating a list of pages for my website WP-Tweaks, was that the search […]
From Now, All iOS App Developers Will Need A Website
Just this Friday, on the 10th of September 2021, a judge finally ruled on the long running case between Apple and Epic. Like everyone else in the tech world, I’ve been watching the course of this trial with fascination – both for what it will mean to the industry as a whole, as well as the impact this […]
Two Ways To Change The Site Title In WordPress
A friend of mine recently reached out to me for SEO advice on a new site he was working on. Taking a quick look, I saw that he hadn’t yet put the main keyword/keyphrase into the title! Naturally, we all know this is the single most important step you take to identify your site as […]
How To Include The FAQ Schema On Your Site
You’ve probably seen search results in Google with frequently asked questions below them that expand “accordion-style” with answers from that particular site. This is beyond just the ordinary FAQs that we see on websites – these FAQs belong specifically to you, and it’s quite obvious when a visitor sees it in the search results. But […]
NameHero + QUIC.cloud + WordPress = Magic
I’ve been messing around some more with QUIC.cloud, as well as Cloudflare’s new APO offering. I’ve concluded that the combination of QUIC.cloud and WordPress with NameHero is one of the best architectures you can have. Here’s why. LiteSpeed + QUIC.cloud = Bread + Butter I’ve written about QUIC.cloud before here on the NameHero blog and […]
How To Practice Content Hygiene On Your Website
Content hygiene refers to the constant maintenance of posts and pages on your site. As time goes by, your site begins to accumulate content that makes it “dated”. Facts that were once true, are no longer so. Comparisons that used to be valid, could do with a refresh. Opinions that seemed correct at the time, […]
How To Monitor WordPress Users For Suspicious Activity
If you keep an eye on the WordPress security scene (as do I), you’ll know that we discover plugin vulnerabilities all the time. Even those that are consistently well-maintained can develop unexpected problems that need to be patched. Worse still is when unmaintained plugins suddenly demonstrate signs of activity, and which can often fly under […]
Google Rewriting Titles – It’s NOT Ok!
As of this writing, Google is currently rewriting the title tag of the white house website to indicate that Joe Biden is the Vice-President instead of the President: In other words, without the consent, or knowledge of the website in question, Google is blatantly lying about what the site contains. Those of us who track […]
Using The New WordPress Pattern Directory
In July 2021, WordPress 5.8 was released with a powerful new feature – the block pattern directory. It’s an addition to WordPress’s existing library of themes and plugins and is sure to be a huge asset for web developers. I must admit, I didn’t see the potential for block patterns until I took a look […]