In my blog notifications today, I noticed a little congrats from WordPress on 9 years of blogging. Hard to believe I’ve been writing on this blog for almost a decade now! When I started this blog nine years ago, it was just a passion project. I wanted a […]
In case you weren’t aware, most Christmas gift guide blog posts are useless lists of products that paid for their spot. I’ve done smaller, unpaid guides in the past, where I list products I actually like and recommend, but last year I tried to go big and participate […]
I’ve had an annoying number of spammers sneaking links into blog comments lately. Or trying to at least. They are just wasting their time, as I remove the links before approving the comments. These comments are different from the typical spam comments, like the ones shown below, which […]
We may be headed into fall, but I’m doing some “spring cleaning” on the blog, deleting old blog posts and removing a lot of irrelevant, outdated and zero traffic posts. I used to keep all my posts, fearing the dreaded 404 Not Found error will harm my SEO. […]
I’ve consistently found Ahrefs traffic estimation inaccurate, often incredibly so, and off by thousands. And why? Because it’s a third-party estimation tool. It has no access to actual website data like Google Analytics, but companies are treating it like it’s the real deal, and it’s all based on […]
