Feeling Burnt Out? Lost That Drive For Success Online?

As some may have noticed I've been somewhat absent from WA for the past 6 - 8 weeks. No, I haven't been hit with the dreaded Covid-19, thank goodness.The truth is I was starting to feel a bit burnt out. Running out of steam. I was getting to the point where it was becoming a chore to find new keywords, write new articles, and work on my site. Whereas before, I was always pumped while looking for new keywords and coming up with content.So, I decided to take a break from WA and put things in a ho

Google Mobile-First Indexing

Well, Google's Mobile-First Indexing is coming sooner rather than later.By Sep. 2020 Google says ALL sites will be crawled and indexed using Mobile-First. You can check to see if your site is moved over to Mobile-First in Google Search Console under property settings.Apparently 70% of sites are already moved. So mobile friendliness is paramount.If you're following WA best practices you shouldn't have any issues.Just an FYI...Cheeers,Michael

Wealthy Affiliate Membership Changes - Time To Clean Up?

Hello My Friends,I'm sure you've seen Kyle's email about the upcoming changes in membership as it relates to hosting. These changes take effect on March 16th, about twelve days from now. I thought I'd take a moment and share some of the things I'm doing to make sure information I share is accurate and also make life a little easier all around.If you're promoting WA I'm sure you have a WA and/or SiteRubix review page that will need to be updated. However, if you're like me, you may also have spr

Let's Encrypt Bug [Not For WA Sites]

If you haven't heard, the free SSL Certificate provider Let's Encrypt, will revoke more than 3 million TLS certificates on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, due to a bug it discovered it just few days ago on Feb. 29th.You can check to see if your domain is affected by going here.First, you don't have to worry about sites hosted here at WA. But, if you have a website hosted elsewhere, it could possibly affect you. If you recieved an email from "letsencrypt.org" stating that your website is affected, you

Happy WAlentines Day!

Happy WAlentines Day to everyone!I couldn't resist joining in the fun of sending Valentines wishes to everyone.All the historical messages have been shared already. But, I did go around the house this morning placing little ❤️'s in certain places for my other half to find.I'll leave this message for my WAmily hoping you all have a wonderful day. I appreciate you.Cheers,Michael

Thank You To All My WA Friends

As we approach the end of the year I realize that it's been almost 8 months since I rejoined WA after nearly a decade hiatus. I have to say I have been thrilled with all the changes, especially with the community. I want you to know that I appreciate every one of you. Each of you brings with you a different experience and a unique perspective. You give me inspiration and motivation to become more than I am and a better person.You have enriched my life through your thoughtful words, full of ins

Happy Thanksgiving & Black Friday!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I know it's a U.S. holiday and many of you are from other parts of the world, however, I want all of you to know that I appreciate you. Your comments, inspiration, and sharing, mean a lot.Then there's Black Friday here at WA. I hope everyone is prepared to take advantage of this most prosperous time of the year. WA's deep discount for Black Friday is an amazing opportunity.Best wishes to all of you.Cheers,Michael

Embracing The Negative

Embrace the negative in your life. Why in the world would we want to embrace the negative things that come our way?There are literally millions of things that could happen to us today that could produce a negative experience. If we don't learn to embrace the negative, we're going be quite unhappy in life.I read an article today that pointed out that negative experiences are nature's way of stopping us from going down a path that wasn't in line with our goals and dreams.The difficulty lies in th

Wow. Top 200

Hi Everyone,Hope you all having a great weekend! I was quite surprised today to see that my rank was 191. I've seen it creeping up recently but today it tipped the scales below 200 for the first time ever! So a big "thanks" to everyone for engaging with me here on the WA platform. I really love this community and you all have given me so much in the way of support, inspiration, and encouragement. I wish everyone massive success!Cheers,Michael

About The 'Keywords' Meta Tag

This topic on the use of the 'Keywords' meta tag comes up from time to time. I'm not sure why, I think perhaps due to outdated training materials.As many of you know, Google stopped using the keywords meta tag quite a few years ago. Yahoo stopped as well, and Bing has said in the past that is uses it as a spam signal and may actually penalize you if it finds keywords in the meta tag that are not in your post content.So why did the search engines stop using it? Basically because it was being abu