What can Wealthy Affiliate do for you? It can give you a rock-solid base from which to build a long-term business online. . . But only if you put in the work! If you need money quickly, Wealthy Affiliate is not for you. This is an honest and detailed review of the Wealthy Affiliate program… Read more
Google recently announced that it will be introducing an update that will assess the quality of the experience users have on your website – the Page Experience Update. But what, exactly, does that mean? Well Google’s guidelines, which are typically opaque, can be found here. Good website design should be all about delivering a good… Read more
I am often asked to help people customise an existing website layout or design, where the element they want to edit is not included in the standard Appearance > Customise screens (assuming they’re using WordPress). In this situation there’s no option but to add the styling manually through the ‘Additional CSS’ tab, which you’ll find… Read more
Over the past year or more I was becoming increasingly frustrated with Google Search Console because I kept getting error warnings. Initially these mostly related to ‘Mobile Usability’ and I’d get a warning that ‘clickable elements were too close together’ or ‘text too small to read’ – when no changes had been made to the… 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 and 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 – I started with affiliate marketing in 2003 (and it has changed a lot since then..!!). Quite simply, Affiliate Marketing… 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
