I’ve been working online since 2006. It started as a side hustle and, in 2010, it became my main hustle. And it has been ever since. This site covers what I have learnt since I started out. I hope it’s useful!
The Wealthy Affiliate program offers step-by-step training in affiliate marketing, but. . . . . . how detailed and comprehensive is the training it provides? Affiliate Marketing is an excellent, low-cost way to build up a long-term income stream but, and this is important: It is not a way to make money quickly. To be… Read more
Every now and then I get an error message from Google Search Console that tells me a ‘submitted URL is marked noindex’. This is an easy error to attract because it’s caused by marking a new page on your site as ‘noindex’, but then forgetting to exclude it from your XML sitemap. Basically, the rule… Read more
12 years ago, when I first got into marketing online, getting regular search traffic from Google was reliable, as long as you played by their rules. I played by their rules because, at the time, their rules made a lot of sense and did result in a good user experience. And I got traffic. In… Read more
I’ve been a member at Wealthy Affiliate for a year now, and I’m often asked which plan offers the best value – the Starter (free) Plan or the Premium Plan. The answer actually depends on a number of things:Your current level of Internet Marketing knowledge and experienceThe amount of money you have available to invest… Read more
Dropshipping vs Affiliate Marketing I was searching online this week for the differences between dropshipping and affiliate marketing, really just to see how other people were defining them. But 90% of the articles I found turned into a comparison of the two that favoured dropshipping as a better, more profitable business model. So I decided… Read more
Affiliate Marketing is a huge and growing industry. It is also one of the best ways to get started with an online business if you do not have any products of your own to sell. Quite simply, Affiliate Marketing is about selling someone else’s products for a commission. In this article I go through what… Read more
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a Google project that is designed to make web pages load more quickly for visitors on mobile devices. Sounds like a good idea, right? Fast loading pages (especially on mobile) is definitely a good idea! But do you have to use AMP to create them? No. (More on that later)… Read more
There are currently more than 55,000 plugins available in the WordPress repository and many thousands more that are ‘Premium’ (paid for) and don’t appear in the repository. With such a huge number available it is inevitable that there will be big variations in the quality of their coding. And badly coded plugins will slow down… Read more
The more the web goes mobile, the more important becomes the speed at which your website pages load. Speed is definitely king – at least on the web. Adding a caching plugin to WordPress and using a CDN are both good ways to speed up your page load times, but they will deliver only limited… Read more
I saw a question today where someone asked if paying for a premium WordPress theme would improve the level of traffic to their website. The answer is ‘No’. There is absolutely no correlation between paying for a theme and the impact it has on the level of SEO optimisation of your website. The theme you… Read more
Errors that arise after updating something You updated a plugin, or a theme, or WordPress itself and suddenly something goes wrong – sound familiar? “…Why can’t I update my posts anymore..?” “…Why am I getting these warning messages..?” “…Why has the layout on the front of my site changed..?” The WordPress eco-system WordPress is often… Read more