Google is reverting back to it’s previous shorter meta description length. The latest meta description is said to be reduced to between 150 to 170 Characters. Though as of this post no definite meta length has been revealed. According to Yoast. Our meta descriptions need to be shorter. Just a few…
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Hotlinking: Damaging Your Trust Factor & Stealing Resources
Hotlinking is the shady dark-web practice of linking to resources on your server. Scammers are stealing your bandwidth. Even worse your resources are used to spread malware killing your domain’s trust factor! Google and Bing track your images and other hotlinked resources. Backlinks coming from spammy phishing domains and will…
Read MoreHotlinking: Damaging Your Trust Factor & Stealing Resources
Hotlinking is the shady dark-web practice of linking to resources on your server. Scammers are stealing your bandwidth. Even worse your resources are used to spread malware killing your domain’s trust factor! Google and Bing track your images and other hotlinked resources. Backlinks coming from spammy phishing domains and will…
Read MoreVisitor Maps Who’s Online WordPress IPV6 Mod
Visitor Maps and Who’s Online by Mike Challis is a favorite among WordPress webmasters to display visitors IP addresses and location. Unfortunately IPV6 addresses are cut off by visitor maps 20 character IPV4 field limit. Doc shows how to mod it’s character length in this tutorial solving the problem. Visitor…
Read MoreWHM cPanel Latest Version Update To Current Instructions
WHM cPanel Version 70 is in Current release as of this posting. Version 70’s biggest feature is cPhulk country blocking. This protects your server from SSH and other attacks by troublesome countries that take place constantly. Today we lay out how to update your servers preferences to upgrade to any…
Read MoreSITE Command Useful To Find Search Indexed URLS
Simple browser tool SITE command checks if your urls are indexed, or in our example are NOT Indexed. This works with Bing and Yahoo search, Google search, and possibly others like AOL and Yandex Etc. Being a conservative blogger FidoSysop has noticed some blog posts that should be getting lots…
Read MoreYoast SEO Premium Plugin ‘View Update Details’ Problem
As a general rule we prefer to preview what’s new in WordPress plugin updates. After plopping down $89 for Yoast SEO Premium I’m impressed. However when a new Yoast SEO premium update was available, I was not able to view the new version details because of a error. I could…
Read MoreSend Your WordPress Blog Into Orbit Using KeyCDN
Looking to optimize your WordPress powered Website or Blogs speed and reach? We recently evaluated two CDN Networks, StackPath and Key CDN, and chose the later. Content Delivery Netwotks commonly referred to as CDN replace your server for feeding images, video, css and JavaScript externally. We found both StackPath and…
Read MoreGoogle AMP Page Errors Caused By WordPress
If you’ve noticed your WordPress website AMP Pages are showing critical errors in Google Webmaster Tools don’t worry. The AMP errors were caused by Automattic’s Amp plugin after a recent upgrade, that’s since been fixed. Apparently after it’s previous update the amp plugin was not stripping out <script> and </script>…
Read MoreFull Encryption Done Right Using CloudFlare FREE SSL TLS
These days the best available transport layer security (TLS) can be acquired at no cost. And purchasing a certificate is no longer necessary. Here’s how we do encryption correctly using CloudFlare Free FULL Strict SSL on this blog! Running your website forum or blog under CloudFlare provides the best available…
Read MoreWordPress 4.7.4 ‘Noopener Noreferrer’ Added to target=”_blank” Links
WordPress is adding both ‘noopener and noreferrer’ tags to external AND internal links opening in a new tab. Essentially anything that opens in a new window or tab (target_blank) on your WordPress site. We noticed this earlier today after updating an article then viewing it’s source. If you set a…
Read MoreHow to Migrate WHM cPanel to Easy Apache 4 and PHP 7
If you’re running WHM / cPanel Server chances are your PHP Version is 5.5 or older. Updating to PHP 7 has many new features that you’re sure to love and the speed increase is fantastic. PHP 5.5 is already at it’s end of it’s life-cycle. PHP 5.6 is nearing it’s…
Read MoreFacebook Comments Robots Block Impacts Website SEO
Recently we added Facebook Comments to this blog thinking they would improve engagement among site visitors. But a robots.txt block spoiled the fun. Facebook users as a rule stay signed in when going to other places on the net. So having FB Comments installed makes it quick and easy to…
Read MoreAdSense Not Worth Jumping Through Google’s Hoops
AdSense, why it’s probably not worth the aggravation of applying and jumping through Google’s approval process hoops. Personally speaking the ads look tacky on websites to me and are a distraction when reading an article. Plus it can take many months or even years to earn your 1st $100 needed…
Read MoreEasiest Facebook Comments Without Plugin WordPress Mod
Want to add Facebook Comments to WordPress but don’t want to use a plugin? Just add these two code snippets and it’s a done deal. This mod also works with Simple:Press the WordPress forum plugin. Plugins are a quick easy way to add Facebook comments to WordPress but some add…
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