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Neal Chester

  • How to speed up WordPress and pass the Google Page Speed Test

    Updated: Feb 2021 In order to speed up your website, you need to do the following 10 things. This will not only help you pass the Google Page Speed test but also make your site load under 3 seconds and your scores will be very high with sites like Pingdom and WebPageTest. These are not…

  • Four ways to speed up your WordPress website

    Your hosting type, caching, image sizes and the use of a CDN have everything to do with the speed of your website. Learn about how each plays its part in your website’s speed.

  • Four things you can do to protect your website from hackers

    In short: always keep WordPress updated. Setup automated backups. Use strong passwords and a security plugin.

  • How to lower your rank in Google

    Blocking search bots, having broken links, using AJAX, having duplicate content and staying blacklisted for too long are some of the ways a business can mistakenly lower their rank in search engines.

  • Schema, Rich Snippets and Microdata

    Schema is the site that gives developers the proper code to display Rich Snippets. Rich Snippets are Google search results that stand out from the rest. Microdata is the type of code used to display Rich Snippets.

  • Fixing a hacked site and what I learned

    So a client of mind, and his WordPress website that I didn’t build was hacked. He asked if I could fix it. Here’s what I learned throughout the process: If your site is hacked, you could get blacklisted by Google. This means when people visit your site, the site will have this big red warning…