It's cooling off outside which is driving to indoor activities. One of those indoor activities is writing this blog.  I've set it aside too long.  The first thing I noticed about this old blog was that I was using posts and not pages.  I'm not sure why.  I'm not happy with the layout, but at first glance, I do some p…

Just a quick update for what will be happening in April with this website.  I've been working on some things related to this weblog. They're in the queue. Sliders or Slideshows  I generally believe they're a nuisance and not good for SEO. I've found some analysis by others that seems to back that up. Nevertheless, I&…

I asked Yoast.  It said 17. I asked my theme. It said 9...  I looked at other websites. 19, 20,22, 26 Most hovered around twenty. To date,  my personal best is a site  I encountered with 55 metatags.  In WordPress, most trust Yoast, but how do we know if Yoast is doing it right?  If we are happy with our websites ranking then Yoast …

Contents [ hide ] Find and Fix Your 404 Errors Early We would like to think that the urls that Google has in its index of your website are the most current ones, i.e. the same ones that are in your sitemap.  However, for a variety of reasons, that is not the case.  A crawl by a link-checker of your website will only reveal if…

Contents [ hide ] This is not the same old Google Blogger schtick. Google does not want your blog...or your house, your wife, and your children.  Not the Same-Ole Blogger Criticisms blogging (Photo by Dan Counsell on Unsplash) There are many websites circulating dubious indictments of the Google Blogger platform. Many of the …

Contents [ hide ] Google Blogger's Import Feature  Well, I lost a couple of days working around some issues that I have seemingly found with Google Blogger's backup and restore capability. Simply put, the re-imported website did not match the previous day's website. The difference was in the URL's themselves…

Contents [ hide ] You should be using Alt Text on your Images.  Alternative Text, Alt Text, or Alt Tag, is the text that aids accessibility by describing the images which appear in your posts.  The  Alt Text should be as descriptive and specific as possible. The purpose of alt text is to convey what is in the image and why it…

Contents [ hide ] Do you sometimes wonder if a website is running Wordpress? There are many Content Management Systems. The last stats I saw had about 1/3 of the websites running WordPress. There are some excellent add-ins that will tell you all sorts of information about a website.  I'll cover those at some later date.  H…