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Affordable Speedy Hosting Is Not A Unicorn!

Well its been a month since we relocated our hosting and frankly, it hasn't been the easiest month ever, but we made it. Finding affordable, speedy hosting doesn't have to be a unicorn hunt! Here, I'm gonna tell you how this all went down and how YOU can do what I did and improve your site, speed and security almost instantly. Lets start at the beginning. *** This post offers my own opinions and hasn't been influenced by the hosting company at all. There are affiliate links in this post, ... View Post

How To Get The Data You Need From Google Analytics

Problems Finding Data In the Default Google Analytics Dashboard I talk to bloggers every day. (no big surprise there right?) And the most asked about subject of my conversations is analytics. Google Analytics to be exact. It seems, for a large portion of my clients and bloggers that I talk to, Google analytics is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Hours are spent looking at the analytics dashboard trying to figure out visitors vs pageviews, where their traffic is coming ... View Post

Disable WordPress Auto Update

Since about version 3.7 the WordPress Auto Update function has been included in all WordPress sites. The problem is that there is no way to simply disable WordPress auto update. (unless you have installed a new blog and you use the checkboxes to do so initially on install) I think everyone should have a say in the WordPress (and plugin) updates that are applied to their sites. Not offering an options-interface to this critical feature on the part of the WordPress core development team is , in ... View Post

Two Easy Ways To Fix Yoast’s WordPress SEO Sitemap 404 Error

The Problem: After setting up Yoast Wordpress SEO sitemap, and clicking the link for it you get the dreaded Yoast Sitemap 404 error! Fix Yoast Sitemap 404 error with these snippets. While this issue has never been a problem for me in the past, for some users it has been a real pain. Recently several of my clients ran into the issue of getting a 404 error for their sitemaps generated by Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. After trying a few things, I was able to figure out the solution. In this ... View Post

How To 1 to 1 Redirect WordPress To A New Domain

One of the most asked questions I get is How do I 1 to 1 (post to post) redirect wordpress to my new domain? Occasionally you need to move from one url (domain) to another and you don't want to lose all the traffic that you've worked to get on the old domain. After you've done the grunt work of copying files, folders and database (s) you need to do a good old fashioned 301redirect so that when folks visit http://yourolddomain.com/link they land on http://yournewdomain.com/samelink. 1. Go to ... View Post