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    Google sells domain division to Squarespace - DNS edits are a nightmare

    Sorry guys - it's time for a rant! :) Google sold the domain division to Squarespace last year and are still in the process of transferring domains into Squarespace control. I probably have about 50 domains that have transferred successfully, and the DNS for each of them are still using...
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    I miss FrontPage

    Sublime for coding is still ranked pretty high for me - can't do much without it these days. Of course I have all my extra shortcodes configured, a repository of frequently used functions, and then integrated to GitHub so I can keep constant revisions and branches under control for various...
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    Added favicons to links. Thoughts?

    I say keep it (for now). It'll be a great test to see if someone is spamming links to the same place ;) I'm all for calling attention to links when they're warranted, and every link SHOULD be warranted, or else we'd delete them :)
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    Report: Desktop website, not mobile, should be the priority

    You know how I always talk about "update your content" - well, here's a prime example of how you can update content :) I took the info that @CanSpace offered and added more content to the article and stats to back up the claims. You can jump to the new section via this link...
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    Report: Desktop website, not mobile, should be the priority

    Your desktop version plays a very limited role. The entire focus of Google's crawls are on mobile. You can read in an article I wrote here: https://www.bigredseo.com/mobile-first-indexing-rollout-complete/ There's a link to this announcement from Google which details further the nuances of...
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    Help spread the good word!

    I'll give it a few days and post a review - I don't want too many reviews too fast and potentially getting flagged. But good for you for taking action on this!
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    Report: Desktop website, not mobile, should be the priority

    If your website, or product, is a research-type product (comparison or otherwise), desktop usually outperforms mobile. However, Google ONLY uses the mobile version of your site for ranking. So if you hide certain things on mobile, or the speed is slow, it will affect the rankings of search...
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    Recommendations on speeding up a WordPress Site

    One key question is; what is the speed of your website now? Is it your home page having issues, or an internet page? Where is your target audience and does it load fast from their location? Speed is all good and well, but if you're at 95% optimization score, squeezing the juce to get to 96%...
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    Is there a difference what you call a blog folder/URL?

    Google shouldn't even care about "archive" as being old stuff. It's all about the traffic and relevance of the content in today's searches. If it's old info "Elementor 2.8.5 exploit", an article that we have on our site from January 2020, the number of people searching for it will be minimal...
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    Is there a difference what you call a blog folder/URL?

    Technically doesn't matter, but I agree that "community" sounds more like a forum. From Google's eyes, you don't need it to be in a subfolder at all if you don't want it to be, however having it in a subfolder makes it easier to track. Having a word in the URL also gives you a slight SEO bump...
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    Conference booth marketing

    I've been to HostingCon in the past (now defunct), which was a conference geared to hosting companies. So you had all the various software vendors and hardware and datacenters all trying to get resellers and hosting companies to use their product. The one item that stood out well at a number of...
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    I miss FrontPage

    You're on your own for that one :) I haven't touched a Mac since the early 90's ;)
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    I miss FrontPage

    FrontPage was like a gateway drug for most web developers. Everyone started with it, and then many graduated to Macromedia Dreamweaver (Macromedia, the folks that brought us Flash and Shockwave :) ). Dreamweaver was later rolled into Adobe's suite of tools. For HTML sites, FrontPage had so...
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    Has anyone tried IndexNow protocol for search engine indexing?

    Nope, no abuse. The only warning they have is that submitting the same URL several times will not speed up the process. So as long as you're just updating them to come back and visit the site as something changed, you're in the clear with no issues.
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    Has anyone tried IndexNow protocol for search engine indexing?

    As @SharedGrid said, we do them on any page that is updated. If a new post is made on our blog, we update that blog post. We go one step further when it comes to our blog posts. Since usually we're linking from an existing blog post in our site that may be a few years old, when we update the...

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