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FidoSysop is a pre-windows days bulletin board system operator (SysOp) turned net guru. He specializes in CloudFlare setup. SEO. Social Media. Tweaking and Modding WordPress. General Webmaster Net Help. His advice has always been FREE and still is! Have questions? Contact Him.
How many of you own your domain name? Meaning are you in control of your domain another company or service registered for you? If that management company goes out of business you could be stuck like Chuck. While updating a site for a client recently we discovered the domain was registered in another companies name. A scenario like this can become a major nightmare if…
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I discovered buttons-for-website.com in this blogs referrer logs about a month ago. Since then it’s been popping up in all my sites logs a lot. Sometimes 25 times each day. However navigating to buttons-for-website.com redirects a visitor to sharebutton.net. That website is offering this code to add share buttons to your website. I’ll be damn if i would insert that code into my website. My…
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Just a quick plug for Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin I have tried many SEO Plugins for WordPress but Yoast WordPress SEO is without a doubt the best! It’s important if you want to rank well in search indexes. Having the proper meta tags and especially open graph meta for social sharing. Yoast SEO does a fantastic job of managing your Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter…
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It’s time to update your websites HTML to HTML5 to be complaint with today’s web standards. If you are running WordPress like this blog it’s HTML5 Compliant out of the box so to speak. But often themes and plugins are not complaint and throw up errors. Best bet is to start here: W3C Markup Validation Service. Copy and paste your websites url and run the…
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CloudFlare just added their Popular Universal SSL to free accounts. Earlier today, CloudFlare enabled Universal SSL: HTTPS support for all sites by default. CloudFlare SSL provides state-of-the-art encryption between browsers and CloudFlare’s edge servers keeping web traffic private and secure from tampering. “I’ve been using CloudFlare flexible SSL with the pro plan for a few months. And to be honest it was a PITA getting…
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Google via it’s spokesperson John Mueller is saying, “we’ve made the difficult decision to stop showing authorship in search results.“ The post went on to say. I’ve been involved since we first started testing authorship markup and displaying it in search results. We’ve gotten lots of useful feedback from all kinds of webmasters and users, and we’ve tweaked, updated, and honed recognition and displaying of…
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If your websites search results lost it’s Google authorship profile photo and circles here’s why According to this Google Plus post by John Mueller “We’ve been doing lots of work to clean up the visual design of our search results, in particular creating a better mobile experience and a more consistent design across devices. As a part of this, we’re simplifying the way authorship is…
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Are you running a WordPress blog and suffering from resource draining and content theft? If so here are two things you can implement that will show the abusers the door. These days there are a multitude of resource hogs that will eat up your websites hosting resources really fast. If you are social sharing your blog articles the risk of getting your website shut down…
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There is a lot of well meaning but wrong information on the net regarding Google Authorship, so i decided to lay it out for fellow WordPress authors. In a nutshell – authorship should only be displayed on your WordPress posts. Lets start out with what you shouldn’t do. Then i will explain how I do it. The first no-no is adding authorship into your header…
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I have been seeing quite a bit of IPv6 entries in my stats lately Gotta admit i was not up on it, and when i noticed this entry 2a03:2880:11:1ff1:: i was saying to myself what the heck is that? (not exactly in those words.) That’s an IPv6 address. Really weird looking i must say. I did a little digging and came up with this website…
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For better than a year i have experienced annoying adobe flash player crashes in Firefox web browser I kept waiting on a Firefox update that would fix it. Gawd knows how many reports i filed with Adobe when their flash player crashed. Firefox updates came and went with flash crashing as usual. Before we go any further i should point out this flash player crash…
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In the car business it’s common to change website providers. But most everyone in the business has a different permalink structure. So your probably thinking, what’s a permalink and why should i be concerned about it? It all has to do with a little thing called “Back Links.” These are links that lead to your dealership from indexed search links, different publications your vehicles are…
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Do you know how to properly set up your car dealer website to be search engine friendly? And especially how to target your local area properly? The old saying “The grass is always greener on the other side of the street is often true” and that’s also often said about car dealer website providers. So lets assume you have a car dealer website but are…
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If your a webmaster you have most likely seen Baidu crawling your website using China and Hong Kong IP’s. I block all of China as a country because there is little my sites offer, if absolutely anything at all that Chinese web surfers would be interested in. This has worked well for a couple of years. But recently i noticed a large number of hits…
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If your trying to figure out how to remove a “Property” in the latest Google Analytic’s for 2014 here is how to do it. First sign into your Google Analytic’s Account. Next click on the Admin Tab in the header. From here select the property you want to delete from the Property Tab. Next on your right click the View Settings Link. Go to the…
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Budget Car Dealer Internet And Social Media Marketing Help! It makes common sense to have an internet geek with experience in the car business, optimize or consult on your car dealer website’s nuts and bolts. Many so called pros do not know the car business. And while most car dealer websites look the same, it’s how they digitally present your car lot to search engines…
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Are you using an Artisteer 4.2 generated theme with WordPress and experiencing Google Webmaster Tools structured data Hentry or Hcard errors? If so here is the quick easy fix for ya.. 😉 There are several articles dealing with structured data errors on the net, but none were written specifically for Artisteer which has a different file structure. So since i have been battling this problem…
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Chances are if your an Internet Merchant you are selling on a WebStore. If so here is a FREE trick to automate sharing all your store inventory on the social web. Most everyone is familiar with Twitter Facebook and Google Plus social networks. But have you heard of RSS before? If not RSS can be used to connect your WebStore to the social web. From…
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I’m running several WordPress blogs with Authorship setup on them and are stumped on why Google Webmaster Tools is loaded up with structured data errors. I am using Artisteer 4.2.0 Standard Edition to generate my WordPress themes. Artisteer support did come up with a fix for there themes and using a static home landing page. Please try changing the following files: 1. in libraries/wrappers.php echo…
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Lets face it, there are a lot of Auto Dealer Website and Inventory Management solutions available. Everyone claims their company provides the best dealer website and inventory management services, but lots of them simply can’t produce what they promised their client. And just because a sites web pages might look good to the dealer that just signed up for service, that don’t necessarily mean they…
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