I Learned A Lot In The Hot Seat

byCalChrisH

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Updated 5 years ago

What? You learned a lot in the hot seat? Yep, you heard me, the hot seat. I watched Jay's training last Friday night, May 3rd. And, I must say I learned more in that almost 90 minutes than I've learned since joining last June, well almost more.

Even though my site was not chosen to be reviewed ( the process to choose sites to review was random and very fair ) I learned valuable information from each and every site he critiqued.

As the training started I decided to start taking notes on my cell phone. ( Note 8 with stylus pen ) Here are my notes:

I know these notes don't seem like a lot of information, however, for me they are valuable. I already had a Gravatar so I could check that off the list. I was pretty sure I

had some categories, well, actually just one so far ( Blog ), but, when I went back to site I found some post that were listed in the "Uncategorized" category. I updated those right away.

The one thing he found on every site he reviewed was the lack of a "Contact" page. Saturday morning I added a Contact page using the "Ninja Forms" plugin. My experience with forms told me I needed a reCaptcha to keep form email spam out of my site. The only plugin I found that would work for this was the "Google reCaptcha". After adding it I could never get it to force the reCaptcha to work. One could fill out the form and click "Submit" and the reCaptcha would not for itself to be activated.

After doing some research about the Ninja form plugin I found that it comes packaged with spam protection. I'm not sure if that will work, only time will tell. I then deleted the Google reCaptcha.

Jay was using a cool tool at ahrefs.com to check links and sites for traffic, SEO, etc. That is a paid service with a 7-day free trial. I'd like to be able to use that, but, maybe one day when I am making money from my site.

One of the main points Jay made when looking at sites was the importance of adding external and internal links to your posts. External links go to URL's outside of your website or post and should be an authority source. The example he used was Wikipedia. Internal links are URL'
that link to another page or post inside of your website.

I took note of "Table of Contents Plus" plugin. That is one I have not gotten around to checking on yet.

If you get a chance, check Jay's training out here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/hot-seat-spring-2019

There is no better way to learn than from an expert and when the expert is critiquing and reviewing our work, its' something we should pay attention too.

I hope everyone has a productive week!

Cal