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How I Use Google’s Site Kit Plugin on my WordPress Website
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How I Use Google’s Site Kit Plugin on my WordPress Website
Google Site Kit is a free plugin offered by Google that allows you to connect various Google services and tools to your WordPress site. It’s a very good plugin but many site owners don’t realize how much you can do with Site Kit (and how much time it saves you!). If you’re building a website
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How to fix the AdSense Ads.txt “Earnings at risk” Error
Google requires an ads.txt on each one of your websites that you want to run ads on. Having an Ads.txt (Authorized Digital Sellers) file is an important step to ensure transparency and prevent unauthorized ad inventory sales. By following a few simple steps, you can easily create an Ads.txt file and remove the warning from
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Cost Breakdown of Running GitHub Enterprise Server on Google Cloud
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Cost Breakdown of Running GitHub Enterprise Server on Google Cloud
I recently deployed a GitHub Enterprise Server instance on Google Cloud as a test to see how much it would cost to run for one week, and also test out some of the features of GitHub Enterprise. The installation instructions that I used are located here, and walk you through from start to finish on
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Mailchimp vs. Klayvio – Which Email Marketing Solution Is Best?
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Mailchimp vs. Klayvio – Which Email Marketing Solution Is Best?
If you’re looking to send email marketing campaigns to your audience, you have a lot of options to choose from. The top contenders for email marketing are Mailchimp and Klayvio. We’ll take a deeper look at the features of each solution, understand the pricing options, and give a few suggestions to see which service is
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Money & Finance
Sales Tax vs. Excise Tax – What’s the Difference?
When it comes to sales, many different kinds of charges and taxes could impact your overall price, overheads, and bottom line. It is therefore important to understand which taxes would impact your business. Two of the most common forms of tax for products and services are Sales tax and Excise tax. Although similar, there are
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What Is WHOIS And What Is It Used For?
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What Is WHOIS And What Is It Used For?
WHOIS (pronounced “Who is”) is a query and response internet protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system. In more simple terms, WHOIS data is used to identify and track the
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How to Build a Website From Scratch – For Complete Beginners
Most of us use websites every day. If you’re reading this, you’re using a website right now. Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc are all websites that started somewhere from scratch by someone who had the same idea as you do: “I want to make a website”. While most of us use websites everyday, there is a
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Banking
Cashier’s Check Guide: What It’s Used For, How to Get One
If you’re in the situation where you’re about to make a large purchase (such as a property, car, or business transaction) you may run into the situation where the seller requests a cashier’s check instead of a personal check or direct bank transfer. In this guide, we will look at why you’d want to use
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How to Import Contacts to Mailchimp
Have a bunch of contacts that you want to start emailing? Mailchimp allows you to import and store contact information, such as name, email address, location, and much more. Once you import your contacts to Mailchimp you can begin to send campaigns and segment your subscribers for different marketing purposes. Contacts can be found and
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How To Create A Shopify Store In 30 Minutes Or Less (2023 Guide)
I’ve written extensively on how Shopify is truly one of the easiest ways to sell products online. Because of how easy it is to set up and sell on Shopify, I’ve used them for tons of different products and companies, and have referred Shopify to friends and family for years because they make it so
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Shopify vs Etsy: What Platform Is Best For Your Business? (2023)
Over the past few years, e-commerce has exploded, and the number of e-commerce platforms has grown to meet the demand. Two of the most popular choices in the market for many business owners and entrepreneurs large and small are Shopify and Etsy. Both platforms offer an array of tools to help new businesses launch their
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What is Ad Blocking Recovery? How to Setup on AdSense
Ad blockers are the bane of a webmaster’s existence. Ads support much of the free content that exists on the web today, and without them, many publishers will be unable to support their websites and continue creating content. That’s why it’s important to enable the Ad Blocking Recovery option with AdSense to display a message
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Mailchimp for Nonprofits: More Than Just a Discount
As with any company, nonprofits are required to invest heavily in marketing to create awareness, boost social engagement and garner enough attention to attract potential donors to their causes. Similar to any profit-driven company, email marketing will likely form part of a well-balanced marketing strategy for nonprofits as well. There are a few email platforms
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How to Create a Survey or Poll in Mailchimp
What better way to understand what your audience is looking for than to ask them directly? Surveys and polls give you valuable insight into what your audience cares about most, and allows you to make data-driven decisions from the results of your survey. Surveys and polls are a wonderful tool to better understand your audience’s
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E-Commerce
What is a SKU on Facebook Marketplace?
If you’ve been buying or selling items on Facebook Marketplace recently, you may have seen an optional field in the “Item for Sale” screen that says “SKU”, but what does this mean? SKU is the abbreviation for Stock Keeping Unit. On Facebook Marketplace, a SKU is a convenient way to keep track of what products
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Mailchimp vs. ActiveCampaign – A Complete Review
Most business owners and startup experts can agree that launching a business, growing it into a successful endeavor, and then keeping it relevant in the minds of the consumer can be challenging. At the forefront of any successful business, you will likely find an email marketing program such as Mailchimp or ActiveCampaign working behind the
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WordPress Website Slow to Load? 9 Tips to Improve Speed
WordPress remains one of the foremost popular, free, and open-source content management systems in the world, and powers a myriad of different sites from e-commerce businesses to personal blogs. Despite WordPress being very popular for businesses large and small, many WordPress website owners struggle with their site being slow. Ensuring that your WordPress website isn’t slow
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How to Set Up SPF & DKIM Records In Mailchimp
Mailchimp allows you to configure SPF and DKIM records to authenticate your custom domain. You can still send emails without authenticating your domain, but some major email service providers (like Gmail or Yahoo Mail) may mark your emails as spam if you don’t have the proper SPF & DKIM records. Adding these records and authenticating
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USPS Priority Mail Regional Rate Boxes Have Been Discontinued
Update: As of January 2023, USPS has discontinued Regional Rate boxes. This means you will no longer be able to take advantage of regional rates. You can still use the boxes themselves, but they will be processed as weight and rate packages according to current USPS pricing rules. For the official announcement, please read the
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How to Create Website Downtime Alerts using New Relic
Website uptime is important, and every second your site is down means lost visitors and potentially missed revenue. Making sure that you have monitoring in place to check that your site is operating as expected is critical, but you also need to be alerted as soon as something goes wrong. With New Relic, you can
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Shopify Embed Video Code
Embedding videos on Shopify is easy with this Shopify embedded video code. Copy the code below, and replace YOUR_VIDEO_URL with the URL of the video you copied from Shopify file manager: How to Embed Videos on Shopify Pages, Themes and Products For a tutorial on how to use this code to embed videos on your
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How to embed Facebook posts, videos and photos on WordPress
Embedding Facebook content such as posts, videos, and photos can improve the quality of your content and increase engagement from readers on your WordPress website. You’re able to embed content from both Facebook business pages and public user posts. In order to embed content from Facebook, you need to become familiar with the new WordPress
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[Guide] How To Add An Email Account From BlueHost In Gmail
Bluehost lets you create a custom email address with your own domain. Unfortunately, the Bluehost webmail applications aren’t that great, and I much prefer to use Gmail to compose emails and respond to inquires. In this guide, I’ll show you how to connect your Bluehost email to your Gmail account, so you can access both email accounts together, and send and receive emails from your Bluehost account straight from Gmail itself.
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How To Setup A WordPress Instance On DigitalOcean (Step by Step Guide)
DigitalOcean is a cloud computing company that gives you great control over the way your site operates, much more than traditional web hosts. With that said, there are a lot of advanced options included with DigitalOcean that will break your site if you’re not familiar with how it all works, so it’s important to make
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Guide: How To View Past Shipment Details and Tracking Numbers On FedEx.com
FedEx doesn’t make it easy to browse their website. In fact, I’ve had the website break multiple times when using it, just trying to do simple things like create a shipment or update my profile.
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How To Create An Email Signature In Outlook Microsoft Office 365
Having an email signature is a convenient way to include all of your contact information inside of an email without having to type out the information each and every time you compose a new message. In Microsoft Outlook, you can add an email signature and also specify whether or not you want to include the signature in replies to the same email chain, which makes it easy to only share your signature once, and live it out in future emails within the same email chain.
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Guide: How To View Recently Played Songs on iOS 10
With the launch of iOS 10 comes a redesigned Apple Music app – and with that, the location of many features such as the recently played songs list has been moved to place that you probably aren’t familiar with in iOS 10. There is some good and bad news with this update. For one –
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12 Ways To Optimize And Speed Up Your WordPress Website
WordPress can be super quick if you have it configured correctly, but usually what happens is that it gets bogged down over time by inefficiencies – so I wrote this to help you find out what could be slowing your site down, and how to go about fixing it. Little bit of a disclaimer: I have
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Solution: WordPress Website Displays 404 Errors On All Pages Except Homepage
Recently I ran into the issue where one of my WordPress websites was only allowing visitors to visit the homepage. Clicking on any other page inside the site resulted in a 404 Error hosted by BlueHost, my hosting provider, and the page would not load even after I reset my cache. If you run into
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Countries Banned From Obtaining TLS/SSL Certificates
Certificate Authorities must abide by government-mandated sanctions (commonly referred to as Foreign Sanctions Evaders List (OFAC) sanctions) against governments and regimes. In abiding to sanctions, TLS/SSL certificates cannot be issued to countries that are restricted. The following table provides a list of certificate providers, and the list of banned or embargoes countries which cannot be
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What Is An EV (Green Bar) SSL Certificate?
There are a few different SSL certificates available out there to apply to your website(s) to increase security and ensure your users that you’re legit. The highest (best) SSL certificate currently available is the Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificate, commonly referred to by webmasters as the “Green Bar” cert. It looks like this and you’ll probably
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How To Turn Off Wordfence Admin Login Alert Emails
I use Wordfence as the plugin of choice when it comes to security for some of my WordPress websites. The tools works great, but it does have the annoying feature of enabling email alerts every time someone logs into your website, which can really clog up your email after a while. They probably look something
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Most Common Contact Form 7 Issues and Solutions
Contact Form 7 is a free plugin, designed to make it easy to send emails from your site. The plugin is updated quite often, and usually the changes break many websites in the process. The following issues outline common Contact Form 7 issues and the recommended solutions to overcome them. If you’d rather not deal
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[Guide] How To Disable Ad-Blockers For Webmasters
If you’re like me and run sites that make money primarily through Google AdSense or similar advertising platforms, it can be very frustrating that a portion of the users visiting the site circumvent the ads with ad blockers. As ad blocker adoption continues to grow year after year, it’s important to look into alternative solutions
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Mistakes To Avoid When Choosing A Domain Name
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Mistakes To Avoid When Choosing A Domain Name
If you’re about to go and create a website, you’ll need a domain name. The domain name is the address to your site and business, it should be easy to remember, preferably end in .com, and should relate somewhat to your business, brand, or the niche you will be covering. You should avoid: Long domain
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What are WordPress Pingbacks? How do you disable Pingbacks?
Occasionally you will receive a notification or even an email that informs you that a post on your blog has a “pingback” from another website. I’ve had a lot of these in the past and noticed pretty quickly that 90% of the ping backs I was getting ended up to be spam, but it’s not
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How to Build an E-Commerce Website From Scratch
Whether you’re an established business or just starting out, it is completely worth your time and money to invest in building an e-commerce website so you have a online presence to service potential customers. In this guide, we’ll walk through the various requirements and tools needed to build an e-commerce website from scratch. I can’t
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How to publish your blog posts to social media automatically
So once you’ve created content on your WordPress blog, it can be a bit time consuming to go to each social media website and copy and paste the link over and over again to promote your content. If you’re looking for an easy way to publish your posts automatically to Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, and
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How to use SpyFu.com for niche site keyword research
SpyFu is an awesome tool which will show you some great details about a particular set of keywords. I use SpyFu when picking a niche website topic, or when I am trying to figure out what types of competition I will face if I create a website about a specific topic. SpyFu does have a
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How to choose the right theme for your WordPress website
When you first setup your WordPress blog, the standard WordPress theme will be installed and active for you automatically, but the beauty of WordPress is the ease at which you can customize the site to your style and liking. There are so many WordPress themes out there. You can choose a responsive theme so that it
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How to choose the right color scheme for a website
Choosing a color scheme can be a difficult part in the design process of your website. Everything from the background to the text color and sidebar colors can be difficult to decide on especially if you don’t have a few matching colors in mind. Luckily, there are many ways to solve this problem, and a few
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