A few years ago, I set out to find a good service to monitor uptime on all of the websites we manage (it varies, up to around 150 of them at any given time). It initially came down to two leading contenders: Pingdom – Undoubtedly the best, but it would have cost us around $249/mo. […]
Stopping fake Google and Lifehacker links
If you pay close attention to your Google Analytics stats, you may have recently been excited to see that you’re getting some traffic from sites such as lifehacĸer.com and ɢoogle.com. Before you celebrate too much, take a closer look at those addresses; do you notice anything strange about the “k” in Lifehacker or the first […]
Wrapping up WordCamp US 2016
We’re at the airport about to fly back to ATL after WordCamp US in Philadelphia, so I thought I’d share a few of my takeaways. Of the dozen or so sessions that we attended, I have four main things that I’m coming away with. We’re doing a lot of things right In listing to search […]
What is the “duplicate content penalty”?
If you’ve done much research into search engine optimization, you’ve likely heard that you should be wary of duplicate content to avoid a penalty from Google. The good news is that there isn’t really a penalty for it, but you should still certainly work to avoid any kind of duplicate content-related issues. Mark Traphagen at […]