Lately I've been checking my posts on my main website to determine if they've been indexed in Google. I've been concerned about my traffic level (not as high as I'd like). As a result I had to make a few requests via the Googlel Console to get some of my pages indexed and will follow up on those. It's not a bad idea for us to verify what is indexed from time to time particularly those of us who are prolific writers, since forgetting to request indexing can easily happen...take nothing for gra

What is Google Predictive Search (aka Autocomplete)? The short answer is its artificial intelligence in action! It's very convenient but it's certainly more than a convenience to say the least. Google predictive search is designed to 'predict' your search intent which it does even before your finish typing your full request. As your already know it starts almost immediately by suggesting long tail keywords and phrases to fill your request, almost as soon as your fingers hit the keyboard. Tha

I write, I write, and my words take flight. I just know I’ll have a great blog, because I'll work on it like a dog.I develop my ideas, they begin to take shape. I know my words will flow, right out of the gate.As I drink my coffee with a little cream, I’ll write about my passion and about my dream. Before I begin, I hear the familiar ring, remember SEO so I can rank on Google and Bing!Well wait, how about Yahoo you might ask, well it’s really all the same task.So I research m

I published an article on my site today regarding sales funnels. What they are, how to use them effectively and so forth. It is a 1600+ word post with some media in the form of pictures and a Youtube video (shared by permission). I tried to use one of ours here at WA and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do it. 1. Did some pinning on a couple of my Pinterest boards to get the word out 2. Made sure I brought the post over to Google Console to request indexing3. Also for the fi

I was having problems with my site’s performance not being up to par and ended up using two plugins that really helped me quite a bit and wanted to share them with you. One is Lazy Load by WP Rocket. Lazy Load by WP Rocket will only display images when they are visible to the user. Since I am using "featured images" on each of my posts, this plugin is an enormous help. The other one I installed is AMP which helps remove unneeded CSS (among other duties accoding to the writeup on it).