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Does Google Rate Your Site as Mobile Friendly?

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Learn why it’s crucial to check your site with the Google mobile friendly test. Make sure your site makes the cut.

Genesis: How to place the post meta and info just on single pages

Genesis: How to place the post meta and info just on single pages

I’ve been working with the Genesis Framework for WordPress lately, and I recently discovered there are two ways to make Genesis display the post meta and info conditionally, and which method you need depends whether the theme is HTML5 or not. On most sites, I use excerpts on the front page, and most Genesis themes

WordPress theming: getting comment_form into your theme

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WordPress 3.0 has a new php call: comment_form. It’s awesome in that it replaces about half the code in a typical theme’s comments.php file. But it’s not in most legacy themes, and the way to add it to your theme is not so obvious. Also, it’s nerve-wracking to customize because there’s no HTML to edit,

Make a leaderboard load after the content in WordPress

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It’s ideal to have your content as close to the top of the source code as possible – maybe even crucial. I’ve run the same site both ways, run two sites simultaneously both ways, and every time the theme with the content closer to the top enjoys a boost from the SERPs. SE bots have

Test your websites for accessibility

Andy talks about making sure websites are accessible to people with vision or hearing difficulty, and gave a very important reason – beyond “it’s the right thing to do” – why webmasters should care: That is 1 in 5 Americans cannot experience the web without the assistance of some form of accessibility enhancement. I had

WordPress: how to have different sidebars on static front page

After setting up a Wordpess static front page with its own template the other day, I decided I didn’t want everything in the sidebars to show on that front page. I looked for conditional code to wrap around the items I wanted to hide, but that didn’t seem like the cleanest solution. Then I wondered:

Check your website for flaws in one click

SiteReportCard is a great tool for checking your site’s quality. All you do is plug your url in, click a button and get a report. The information they give you is terrific. It checks for: * Broken Links * Misspelled Words * HTML Validation * Load Time Analysis * Meta Tag Optimization * Image Optimization

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Cool Stuff

After a buggy update blew up my websites, I decided to replace Social Warfare. Learn which plugins I used - and how they gave me a nice little traffic bump for speeding up my site.

Plugins to Replace Social Warfare

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Why I Don’t Have an Email List

At first I loved GetResponse. Then they dropped phone support. Then they flagged my account and froze it for no reason, and they won’t tell me why. Read more about my disappointing experience with this much-loved company.

Why I Decided Against GetResponse

The Theme I Use

I use Genesis on all my sites. I've tried a lot of free themes, ThemeForest themes and DIY (Thesis), and Genesis wins hands down.
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My favorite Host & Analytics

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My anti-virus

If your PC gets infected, your website can become infected, too. Don't let it happen! My PCs run:

  • Emsisoft - great AV and firewall suite
  • Malwarebytes - designed to run along with other AV software
  • CryptoPrevent - a small program that blocks ransomware. Read more here: Cryptowall: how to protect your PC
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