Read valuable insights about search engine optimization (SEO), WordPress, Google Analytics, and ideas about how to marketing your website. From time-to-time, I’ll also publish articles about hobbies such as guitar, FreeNAS, or many other topics.
Clickbait Headlines and what John Mueller Says March 17, 2020 - Clickbait headlines have infiltrated our society in a negative fashion and has become quite pervasive and unfortunately persuasive. What is worse is when those headlines aren't clicked upon and read, but instead scrolled past with the headline taken as fact without reading the entire article. For example, we'll get tidbits from Googlers like John Mueller… Continue Reading
Introducing Bunk SEO March 4, 2020 - SEO is a strange industry. You can't really go to college for it, and it can take years to show competency. In my opinion, a minimum of a decade to show real maturity and expertise. Yet, the industry is flooded with individuals and companies selling unethical and black hat SEO techniques which harm their clients… Continue Reading
Automated DigitalOcean Snapshots with DOCTL December 22, 2019 - DigitalOcean snapshots are a blessing if you're clumsy like me. They've allowed to me to recover from my mistakes, and even a hacking situation. However, I've been disappointed with one aspect of DigitalOcean. Their backup plans for Droplet only create one backup per week and you cannot schedule yourself. They have snapshots which can be… Continue Reading
Plugin Update Failed: How To Fix WordPress Plugin and Theme Permission Errors December 6, 2019 - Recently, when attempting to update some plugins and themes on my WordPress installation, I can across two errors: Failure Updating Plugins An error occurred while updating <plugin name> And... Failure Deleting Plugins Plugin could not be deleted due to an error: Could not fully remove the plugin(s) my-plugin/my-plugin.php The root of the problem is that… Continue Reading
How My WordPress Website Got Hacked and How I Recovered November 26, 2019 - My WordPress website was hacked, and it was super embarrassing. Just when my recent blog post about why you shouldn't download nulled versions of BackupBuddy was starting to rank well for various keywords and gaining some decent traffic, my site began to redirect to another website. I couldn't log into my website at all. I… Continue Reading
Shared Web Hosting is Becoming More Expensive August 15, 2019 - If you've used shared web hosting for your website, most likely you've been using cPanel. This is a popular website management platform which allows web hosts to provide users with their own massive amount of features on one server. Recently, cPanel has announced new price increases. Some hosts like GoDaddy, HostGator, Blue Host, etc., have… Continue Reading
Link Building is Overrated August 8, 2019 - Link building used to be incredibly easy. I remember when I could submit hundreds of links using a directory submitter in the late 2000s and rank my sites in just a few weeks. Those days are long gone. Google has updated their algorithms consistently in order to figure out abusive link strategies, and reduce those… Continue Reading
Reasons Not to Download BackupBuddy Nulled August 1, 2019 - Nowadays, people tend to go for fake products to save some cash, including searching to download BackupBuddy nulled versions. The trend is growing adversely, and to keep things very simple: the source code has been nulled making the plugin unsafe.The biggest irony is using an unsupported and insecure plugin as a part of your websites… Continue Reading
Learning to Repair & Restore Guitars July 25, 2019 - In the last two years I began to play guitar again, but for nearly 20 years, I've only owned two guitars. A lightweight, highly inexpensive Jay Turser strat copy with a wood veneer, and a Carlos Robelli electric acoustic. Neither of these are valuable guitars, and I've honestly been ashamed of them for years. As… Continue Reading
How to Add Google Analytics to WordPress July 18, 2019 - Adding Google Analytics to WordPress can be as easy as installing and configuring a plugin, as efficient as customizing a theme, or as performance and scalable option using Google Tag Manager.WordPress continues to be one of the most recognized content management systems for website owners thanks to it’s easy-to-use publishing features, extensibility, and low-entry costs. Now… Continue Reading
Yes, Google Does Read Text on Images July 11, 2019 - On a blog post on June 20th this year, I wrote a blog post wondering, "Can Google Read Images?" Well, it turns out they can. I found similar blog posts that have reported the same, but I wanted to try for myself in a small experiment. To complete this test, I created an image that… Continue Reading
FreeNAS: A Hero’s Journey July 5, 2019 - Building and maintaining a FreeNAS server in my home has been a rewarding experience that continues to provide me with value and an avenue to grow personally and professionally. It's an experience generally started with loss, some stability, neglect, some more loss, stress, and then eventually some stability and growth. Backstory I bought my Netgear… Continue Reading