Thanks to its cloud-based architecture, you can start using your NameHero account immediately after placing your order. Other web hosts without a cloud infrastructure need time to set aside and “provision” the resources on their servers. NameHero provisioning, however, takes just a few minutes. To give you an example, I first placed the order for […]
Have A Plan For Your Website When You Die!
A bit of a morbid topic, I know, but it recently came to my attention when I read that Bill Slawsky died in mid-May via a Tweet from his company: For decades, Bill Slawsky managed a blog called SEO by the Sea, keeping track of the latest Google updates and more. For the community, it […]
Three WordPress Disadvantages To Be Aware Of
I’m a huge fan of WordPress. I’ve been using it since 2008 and have contributed my own plugin to the repository. There’s no shortage of articles talking about the advantages of WordPress, and that’s because it’s great software! But I feel there aren’t enough people talking about its limitations. So here are three disadvantages of […]
Google Kills The “Content Is King” Myth
I seem to be on a roll, nitpicking Google’s public pronouncements on SEO. After my last article on the SEO impact of cloaking affiliate links, I told myself I’d stay away from the subject for a while, but then couldn’t help myself as John Mueller said something that quietly upended the entire foundation of search. […]
Cloaking Affiliate Links Doesn’t Harm SEO!
A bit of a discussion broke out over the weekend on the issue of affiliate links and their impact on SEO. An SEO consultant asked John Mueller whether his site was harmed because he was cloaking his affiliate links. Mueller’s answer was a dodge: But taken together with previous pronouncements and common sense, cloaking your […]
How To Use QUIC.cloud’s Name Servers For Full CDN Integration
Right now, QUIC.cloud is the best Cloudflare alternative. While it still has a long way to go to match Cloudflare’s extensive feature set, the basic functionality of a reverse proxy is already up and running. And the pricing model is far more flexible than Cloudflare’s, where the minimum plan costs $20/m. By contrast, QUIC.cloud has […]
Google’s “Helpful Content” Update: Will It Fix Things?
Those who rely on search for our traffic know that the phrase “Content is King” in search is a lie. The crown doesn’t go to content but to something Google claims doesn’t exist – domain authority. We know that big brands always get away with thin, poor-quality content, while smaller brands with better articles rank […]
Spam Google Analytics Hits: Czechia And Seychelles
For the past week or so, Google Analytics has been showing inflated stats for several of my pages. A while back, I’d written about fake traffic in Google Analytics from visitors that weren’t coming to your site. I don’t know whether the perpetrators finally stopped or whether their tactics were blocked by Google. But the […]
Search CTR: Google Says It Doesn’t Affect Rankings. Really?
No one – probably not even Google’s search engineers – understands all the factors that go into ranking search results. Particularly with the integration of AI, I’m convinced that even the people who built the system no longer know what goes into determining which results show up in which position, let alone the respective weightings. […]
QUIC.cloud Has New Security Features
I’m a huge admirer of QUIC.cloud, and they currently fill a need that I think is met only by Cloudflare. Cloudflare is, of course, a lot more mature and has more features, but QUIC.cloud is filling out its feature set nicely. One of the biggest advantages of a Cloudflare Pro is the Web Application Firewall […]