Originally released as a blogging platform, WordPress adoption has grown over the years and its functionality has expanded well beyond its initial specifications. Thanks to countless updates, themes and plugins, WordPress can be used for every type of website imaginable, including eCommerce. The basics are easy to learn thanks to its simplicity and the countless …
Read MoreSEO-Friendly Site Migration Checklist
Website migrations require quite a bit of due diligence and can lead to hours (if not days or weeks, sometimes even months) of headaches and lost traffic and revenue if not done properly and with adequate planning. Having been involved with countless site migrations, I’ve learned far more from the problematic migrations than the smooth, …
Read MoreTech SEO 360 Review
One of my favorite tools over the last few years has been A1 Website Analyzer (which is similar to Screaming Frog SEO Spider). It’s become an important tool in my on-site/technical SEO audits, as it quickly displays pages with poor (or non-existent) internal linking, short title tags, mismatching canonical link rel elements, slow loading times, …
Read MoreDeepCrawl – Useful SEO Takeaways and what’s New with 2.0
I recently began using DeepCrawl after putting it off for awhile. I quickly saw the advantage of not only being able to crawl much larger sites (since desktop applications begin to use up a lot of memory once your crawl exceeds a certain number of URLs). I was happy with my decision to begin using …
Read MoreReferral SPAM and how to Block It
Why you’re getting visits from suspicious or even non-existent websites By now you’ve probably noticed in your Google Analytics (or other web analytics package or even your log files) that you’re receiving an unusually high rate of foreign traffic from odd websites which may or may not load when you try vising them (they may …
Read MoreUsing your iPhone/iPad as a TV or Universal Remote
A common question I get when I show someone how easy it is to use my Samsung Phone (I currently have the Note Edge) as a universal remote is “can my iPhone do that?,” to which I awkwardly have to explain that certain Android phones are able to do this because of the infrared blaster, …
Read MoreE-Commerce SEO: Challenges and Solutions
My first few years of professional SEO experience was purely automotive e-commerce. It wasn’t until years later where I’d begin taking on SEO projects for other types of sites (local businesses, startups, etc) that I’d begin to understand how different and unique e-commerce SEO was in relation to other sites. The sheer number of factors …
Read MoreWhy Google Analytics is showing 0 Average Time on Page
Google Analytics’ “Average Time on Page” can be a bit confusing and I’ve had people ask me why they’re seeing sessions with an average time of zero, wondering if they’d perhaps installed their analytics correctly. If you’re in a similar situation, there is good and bad news. The Good News: There is probably nothing wrong with …
Read MoreChecking your Canonical Link Element En Masse
Auditing your website’s canonical link elements The ability to cite canonical URLs can be a great asset for an SEO. Unfortunately it can also have negative impacts if used inappropriately. Between site migrations, the creation of new pages, switching to https, misuse or bugs in an SaaS, domain name switches and just the everyday grind …
Read MoreThule EnRoute Escort 2 Daypack Review
I recently received a Thule EnRoute Escort 2 Daypack as a gift. It was a perfect gift for me since I’ve decided to start hiking again and have been in need of a better daypack. What’s more is I don’t leave home without my laptop these days and have been long overdue for a daypack …
Read MoreBuzzFeed account creation trouble: IP address filtering
In an attempt to create a BuzzFeed account, a friend of mine ran into some unexpected trouble. Following every possible manner of creating an account (connecting via Google+, Facebook and “the old fashion way” of creating a username and password) only to receive error messages like “an error has occurred” and “trouble creating account.”
Read MoreHaving trouble adding owners in Google Search Console?
I recently came across an odd situation whereby I had difficulty adding owners in Google Search Console (Webmaster Tools). The problem was that the Google Search Console account receiving the delegated ownership wasn’t seeing the sites I was delegating beyond the first one. Adding an owner via delegation on my side was rather simple.
Read MoreTracking Internal Redirects in Analytics and Tracing External Redirects
This post is split into two sections. The first is for tracking your own internal redirects using Google Analytics. The second portion is for tracing URL redirect paths. Tracking Internal Redirects with Google Analytics Tracing External URL Redirects Tracking Redirects with Google Analytics One of the problems people run into is their inability to track …
Read MoreGoDaddy Gmail Setup – Sending from your Gmail Address
If you’re handling multiple email addresses, you’ll probably want to be able to send from multiple email addresses from the same email address account, as opposed to having to individually log in to a different email address account every time you need to check or send an email from/to that email address. Having to constantly log …
Read MoreSEO for 2015: The State of SEO and some Predictions
2015 is here and SEO is barely recognizable from SEO in 2005 (the year I began doing this professionally), when carpet bombing link and article directories, adding some keyword-stuffed”rich” landing pages, and making sure you weren’t doing anything stupid (like blocking your site via robots.txt) was enough to dominate the SERPs. Today, good (even decent) …
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