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Is AMP good for my ecommerce store or wordpress site?
Anything that is fast is good but there are some drawbacks and implementing AMP is not plug and play, its typically a lot of dev work and custom workarounds to integrate this into the design of your site. AMP is essentially HTML/CSS only, it doesn't allow for...
How to make sure my web site gets traffic
I've been doing SEO for over 20 years and I will list some things that you can do for your existing site, maybe its a new site or maybe its an old site that either has no traffic or once had good traffic and has died out for one reason or another. One thing...
My site is not ranking well anymore in the search engines and it used to how can I fix this?
Well there are too many things to list about improving ranking as I can write a book on the subject but generally, I see that old sites with old coded designs simply do not rank well anymore and generally anything older then 4 years barely gets any traffic at all, if...
How to check cart abandonment in Matamo analytics??
Login to your Matamo panel and you can find it it in Behaviour -> pages it will show you what pages people have been on . Count how many people were on your cart page vs how many checked out.
Why the General Data Protection Regulation Cookie notice banner is silly for most websites.
First of all the intent is to protect "personal information" and everyone needs to understand that when you are on the internet you have a IP address and the website has a IP address and these are used to send data back and forth and the website knows what page you...
No such thing as mobile first
Most web site designs use responsive coding that means the tablet and mobile views are based on the desktop view. Its all one single template, when the browser viewport width is that of a tablet or mobile it loads alternate CSS only, not an entirely new template. You...
Speed up your WordPress website, things to look out for.
The Firstbyte time Ideally should be around .30 - .50 sec. Check on unused plugins and remove them and check which plugins are executing slowly on both sites using the F-12 Profiler plugin. Check the sizes on your combined CSS file, maybe removing unnecessary plugins...
Traditional hosting is now deprecated
Traditional hosting is now deprecated and this new hosting technology that has come out called Docker it's model much more secure and faster about twice as fast over whm/cpanel. Also, it bundles the server dependencies into the website making your website liken to one...
Staging to long term production with Docker
Preview(opens in a new tab) The biggest thing is getting it into a Docker container so that the site is made to run 100% without error which we call staging for production. This is where the code is protected by middleware built into the docker stack or the website...
The future of Docker & Kubernetes
Right now only the web developer with DevOps experience can put people on Docker and interact with Docker files. There will be in the future, likely over the next 2-3 years you will start to see services that will enable the common individual to work with and add to...
Keep your Joomla site secure and backed up
Install RSfirewall & Akeeba backup but if you purchase the pro version of Akeeba backup it can create backups automatically and upload it to remote storage automatically on a schedule. The firewall does a good job at protecting the website code even if a security...
Common plugins to install in WordPress
All In One SEO PackAutoptimize - Makes your site faster by optimizing CSS, JS, Images, Google fonts and more.F12 Profiler - Used to keep track of the execution time of the plugins and themes.Lazy Load Optimizer - Lazy loading images to speed up sites page load...
Square Booking and WordPress/ Woocommerce
There is an addon for Woocommerce that allows you to use your Square payment account to take payment for products https://woocommerce.com/products/square/ . There is another one here that allows you to sync products between square and woocommerce...
Functional problems that slow a site and/or reduce visibility/ranking
In regards to speed, in organic search improving speed gives a higher score and gives a ranking advantage to those who have faster loading sites. In addition to the better user experience score with faster load times. Here are just a few things you can do...
SEO Considerations When Useing a WordPress Template
If you want to create a website without SEO penalties that serve up quality content that people are glad they land on. If you use a WordPress template many negative SEO implications go with that, a few reasons are using a template can score duplicate content penalties...
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