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Posts by Stephen Ostermiller
XML sitemaps are not necessary for SEO. They don't affect Google's decisions about which URLs get indexed, nor do they help the pages in them rank better. The two SEO benefits of XML sitemaps are...
In the old Universal Analytics, I was unable to show stats from a "domain" property that I had created in Google Search Console. I was only able to integrate a "prefix" property. I haven't tried ...
Apache has modules for both digest authentication and basic authentication. I've seen recommendations to use digest authentication because it doesn't send the password in clear text. However, if ...
I've heard that I should create an XML sitemap containing all the URLs from my site for SEO. My site needs to improve: The number of URLs that get crawled by search engine bots The number of U...
Meta issue: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288441 I uploaded an image into this question: How accurate are the browser usage statistics at caniuse.com? However it isn't showing up. When I upl...
The flip side of "fresh" content is "evergreen" content which is useful for a long period of time. News sites need lots of fresh content because most users need the latest news, not news that is w...
In Zelda Tears of the Kingdom you can feed luminous stones to animals called "dondons" which then later produce gems. How do you optimize this process? You can feed each dondon up to 5 stones, bu...
Content Aggregation Content aggregators tend to collect and link to lots of content. This is especially prevalent for news. Many news sites don't do their own reporting. Rather they display a lis...
The name of the game should go in every question title. The tag isn't always shown with the question, so it isn't enough context. When I look at the video-games tag I see the following where the ...
I've seen SEO advice that the ideal length for a page title is 50 to 60 characters and that the maximum length is 80 characters. Our site relies on user generated titles for our content and our us...
Web Builders would make a decent name with web.codidact.com as the URL. It's more modern that "Webmasters" and covers more of the site scope than "Web Developers."
I've been hosting my website on shared hosting, but I'm tired of paying their monthly fee. I want to move my website to my home computer. How do I need to configure my DNS records to make that ha...
I'd like to have a backup of my WordPress website. It looks like I'll need to back up the database, some settings, and some uploads. How do I create backups for my site?
I've been told that I should get a WordPress website. Looking into it, there is an open-source content management system available from wordpress.org and hosting available for it from wordpress.co...
I have some old pages on my website that I now redirect to new pages: /old.html -> /new.html Should I include https://example.com/old.html in my XML sitemaps so that search engines find the re...
I'm trying to choose between domains with and without multiple dashes: my-awsome-company.example myawesomecompany.example The dashes make it much more readable to me, but I've heard that sea...
I'm building a company with a website about widgets. The .com domain name with just "widgets" is already taken, and so are a lot of other keyword related domains. I could get a domain on an alter...
I applied to Google AdSense to be able to use their system to put ads on my site, however my application was rejected due to "insufficient content." Googles help page is pretty vague about how muc...
I am setting up a domain that uses a CNAME record so that is hosted on the same server as another site. I seem to be able to set up the www subdomain just fine with a CNAME but I'm having trouble ...
Our website relies heavily on user generated content and power users that edit, curate, and moderate that content. Recently the amount of content contributed to our site has taken a nose dive. Loo...
I looks like either RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*) http://localhost:8080/$1 [P,L] or ProxyPass "/" "http://localhost:8080/" ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://localhost:8080/" would allow...
I have a website hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The load balancer is the newer "application" type. I've...
Evidentially my site is working over IPv6 with just the ELB IPv6 enable and AAAA record. ELB listener configuration The load balancer does have configuration on how to route requests to EC2. Her...
I recently received and email from Google AdSense that says: Starting later this year, Google will requiring all publishers to use a Consent Management Platform (CMP) that has been certified by ...
Search engines don't use metrics published by Moz for ranking purposes directly. There is no guarantee that improving your domain authority, or any other metric published by third parties will hel...
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