It's about that time of year again where we all look after sales on our favorite products and services. I know I typically do a lot of shopping around this time, but it's not always for personal use, but also business. Service/Support Update: Since it is Thanksgiving week for us, our support will be a bit slower in responding to questions and tasks. We enjoy spending time with our friends and family during the holidays, so we will be closed on Thursday and Friday of this week. We appreciate …
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How to Noindex Tag Pages Using Yoast SEO
I've been blogging for a long time (since 2003/2004) and used to place tags on my posts like it was Christmas. For the longest time, it was thought that using tags would allow you to help Google understand your posts more. While that might have been true 10 years ago, it's not true now. You see, when you select a category for your posts, this is allowing you to narrow down the focus of the content so it's easier for readers to find (if you have good navigation structure anyway). Our main …
How to Remove Noreferrer From Your Affiliate Links (including Gutenberg)
Since the launch of WordPress 5.0, which included the new Gutenberg editor, the core team has included the addition of the noreferrer tag on any links that open up in a new window. Considering most people open up external links (links not pointing to your own domain) in a new window, they have been adding the noreferrer tag to all of these links. This also includes affiliate links. Here is what they look like when you open the source code: <a …
Recommended WordPress Plugins for New Sites
We have been asked a number of times to provide a list of plugins that every beginner blogger and new site owner should have on WordPress. The main reason we haven't done this so far is because it's hard to pin down a perfect list of plugins that every site should have. The main reason for this is each person and site is different. What one person might want, another might not. Having said that, we wanted to put together a list of plugins that we do think every site should have, no matter …
New Pricing, Features, and Plan
This is a hard post to write for us because we have worked very hard to keep our pricing low and attainable for any size business and blogger out there. We think we did a good job over the past couple of years, but it has caught up to us. Let's be honest, no one likes to get an email from a company saying "we're increasing our prices, but you get the same service!" That's why we aren't doing that because I know I hate when I get those emails or letters about new pricing with less …