https://twitter.com/methode/status/757923179641839616?lang=en official tweet from Gary Illyes In a tweet from Gary Illyes, Google officially stated that 301 and 302 redirects didn't lose page rank. This was not always the case. By the past Matt … [Continue reading]
I have used phpBB since a long time but now I gave up. I just updated phpBB 3 to the last version. However, it looks like there is an issue with php 7.2 and I can read in the code <b>[phpBB Debug] PHP Warning</b>: in file … [Continue reading]
We came across a blog that also featured a phpBB forum under the folder "/forum", The blog was pretty successful but the webmaster didn't have time to maintain the phpBB forum. For unknown a reason, a PHP error started to show up at the bottom of … [Continue reading]
Wpadverts is a free classifieds plugin for wordpress with paid addons. At first sight, I thought it wasn't a powerful plugin. Then, I discovered that there are lots of features and it is a reliable plugin. Wordpress use It uses a lot of … [Continue reading]
Craiglist is a very good website. It features a homepage with no pictures that is not responsive for smartphone. The homepage is made of columns and table. Like me, users love craiglist because you can see all the categories right from the beginning … [Continue reading]
The good reputation of .com Here is a story that happened in August 2018. In France, a hotel employee received an email from a software company which had the email domain cicd.biz. In this email, a representative of the company wanted a … [Continue reading]
The .blue domains New domain TLDs The .cam domains The .casa domains The .cc domains: This country TLD is treated like a generic TLD by Google so that a pages of a .cc domain are likely to be seen by any people all over the world … [Continue reading]
The length of popular domain names never exceed 9 characters. We only chose websites that were primarily related to an online business. For sure, those domain names were created when there were many more available .COM domain names. Consequently, in … [Continue reading]
.tk domains have a bad reputation because this TLD is used a lot by spammers. The .TK top level domain is ranked second by spamhaus Spammers TLDs ranking. We found that it cost something close to $22 to buy a .tk domain at namecheap. Taking into … [Continue reading]
Below you can see a list of 2 char top level domains that were originally country TLDs but are treated like generic TLds (like .com) by google. It means they will rank the same wherever the google user is located on earth. Be cautious about the … [Continue reading]
Pre-check before moving Check if you have canonical tags in place and if no, add canonical tags to the website.Check the redirections (http to https? subdomain?)Verify the new website in google search console and check if it wasn't penalized … [Continue reading]
Sistrix has done a report about the move from jobs.monster.co.uk to monster.co.uk/job and jobs.monster.de to monster.de/jobs/ The charts shows a huge traffic increase after moving from subdomains to subdirectories. We have decided to investigate … [Continue reading]
Country tlds (cctld): mydomain.co.uk, mydomain.de... Pros: Every website can be install on a different web serverEvery website can be installed on different DNS serversFor multi-regional websites, the web server, domain name is located in the … [Continue reading]
Create the subdomain in the DNS records Please read all the actions before starting. In the hosting administration, you should add an A record to map the new subdomain to the IP address of your web server. For example: uk.yourdomain.com a … [Continue reading]
The theme has to be customizable Wordpress themes authors are great at showing beautiful demo layouts. However, Your customized wordpress theme may look much less beautiful for several reasons. For example, you want to tweak the layout and you get … [Continue reading]
The order of those themes isn't related to their quality. Take the time to browse the page. SmartMag SmartMag is a boxed and full-width wordpress theme for news, magazine and blogs. The homepage can be . This theme is fully compatible with … [Continue reading]
There are different types of 404 errors on a webpage: 404 error from an image URL located in a IMG SRC tag 404 error from a URL on the same domain located in a A HREF tag 404 error from a URL on a different domain located in a A HREF … [Continue reading]
Yes, there are. First of all, the official statement of Google about broken links is: "it's normal to have broken links but you should fix them". In the SEO starter guide from Google, the Google team mentioned: Avoid: Letting your navigational … [Continue reading]
Sometimes ago, Matt Cutts stated that Google took out webpages that returned a 410 faster than with 404. Since this 2014 video, we didn't find any official google communication that contradicted this statement. In HTACCESS, here is are the … [Continue reading]
We visited brokenlinkcheck.com, we tested tomydna.com and we compared it to the error reporting from sitecozy website checker. Result from brokenlinkcheck.com Brokenlinkcheck.com successfully found the malformated URL, an external URL that does not … [Continue reading]
According to John Mueller 301 and 302 redirects don't lose any google juice and pagerank. He is the official tweet from the Google employee, Gary Illyes 30x redirects don't lose PageRank anymore. — Gary "鯨理" Illyes (@methode) July 26, … [Continue reading]
1. Buy a domain name: Choose a domain name I do encourage you to buy a domain name at namecheap.com, they sell international domain extensions, new domain tlds for a cheap fee. 2.Choose a web hosting plan A/You can choose a web hosting … [Continue reading]
If you use Wordpress, you may know that sometimes Google indexes archives organized by dates, tags, author or category. Should you noindex those pages? After investigating, we found several pieces of information from John Mueller (a Google … [Continue reading]
In Google search results, you may have seen snippets with the title of the website or the brand at the end of the title. From a marketing point of view, this gives a brand or a website some significant visibility. However, we think that you … [Continue reading]
The best way would to visit images.google.com then click on the photo camera icon to get the following screen as in the screenshot: You can either use an image URL or an image file to find its duplicates in same size or different … [Continue reading]
SEO plugins for wordpress are useless and even dangerous for several reasons. 1.Google understands paginated pages. Google understands when there is a paginated page even if you didn't add rel="next" and rel="prev" (reference at Google) 2.SEO … [Continue reading]
The genesis theme copies the meta description on every paginated page resulting in errors at the google search console. To avoid it, we suggest to remove the meta description from inner paginated pages. Add the following to a wordpress … [Continue reading]
Login at namecheap, go to your domain, change the DNS to the Namecheap basicDNS. Then click on the Advanced DNS tab. On the left side, choose URL redirect record, then type "www", then the destination URL with a "/" at the end, then choose 301 … [Continue reading]
After login at app.sitecozy.com and clicking on "site scanner", enter the first URL that you want to see reviewed. For sure, this URL protocol should be HTTPS then, when you are ready press "submit". It will check mixed content errors and follow … [Continue reading]
The SiteCozy site scanner reviews IMG SRC tags in the HTML code of every webpage on a website up to 50,000 links. Whatever the type of images (PNG,JPG,TIF,BMP,SVG), the crawler will check whether the image link returns a 200 HTTP code (OK) or a HTTP … [Continue reading]
On the site scanner panel, you have two choices: 1st form: You can enter your URL here. The site scanner will check the internal links and external links on this webpage. It will tell you whether there are broken links by returning a HTTP error … [Continue reading]
Broken links can be caused by different problems: Misspelled URLs: Sometimes people make make mistake when they copy a URL into a A HREF tag. Malformatted URLs: Sometimes there are characters that modify the URL. For example, sometimes URLS … [Continue reading]
First of all, after subscribing, go to app.sitecozy.com and login using your email address and password that you used during the registration process. Then, there are two modes to find server errors on your website. Either you enter a URL in the … [Continue reading]
Login at app.sitecozy.com with the email address and the password you used during registration. Then, click on site scanner on the left sidebar. Then, you have two options. Either you provide a URL in the first form and the site scanner will … [Continue reading]
There are numerous online experiments of webmasters who moved their websites from a subfolder to a subdomain resulting in a traffic drop. I think the issue may not be related to the subdomain itself but the 301 redirect. Since several years now, I … [Continue reading]
1.Creating a new domain for internet forums: Example in the context of SEO forums: warriorforum.com, seo-forum.link-assistant.com, seoforums.org, blackhatworld.com, apexforum.org, webmasterforums.com Pros: If the domain gets penalized, the … [Continue reading]
Google search console provides a list of 401, 403, 404, 410, 500 URL errors for webpages. However, there is a list of important errors that Google search console does not report: URL errors locations. Google search console does not tell you … [Continue reading]
1.Xenforo forum platform: This forum comes with a responsive theme out of the box. The graphics and the css is perfect. It features an advanced customizer so that you don't need to install any additional themes. SEO features are delivered with the … [Continue reading]
For many years, I have kept former domain names and I used HTACCESS directives to automatically route the traffic from the URLs with the former domain to the new domain. However, after sometimes, I have observed that my new webpages on the new domain … [Continue reading]
1.Select all the URLs that you want to export and press CTRL+C. 2.Then, in MS excel, use CTRL+V to paste the URLs. The URLs will be copied as long list of URLs separated by a white space just like below Then, click on the Data tab, Text to … [Continue reading]
The main reason why I think that choosing a domain name is a major task is related to a technological issue. Numerous times, I have found that moving a website to a new domain name always triggered a series of problems. Consequently, it is important … [Continue reading]
We deactivated the IPv4 protocol on a computer and checked the following websites to see whether it was possible to access via IPV6 only. airbnb.com alexa.com amazon.com apple.com bankofamerica.com booking.com bbc.co.uk … [Continue reading]
Yes, it is possible and it happened to several websites. Google does not send a message about every single google penalty. Here are some examples when Google does not issue an error message in the google search console. Mixed content errors: When … [Continue reading]
First of all, we bought Avalanche a phpBB 3 premium theme. The theme looked good until we discovered that all the buttons to "modify a post", "delete a post", "report a post" or "quote a post" disappeared and it was not possible to modify, delete … [Continue reading]
When you start with your free forum software, you already have to keep in mind that you could move to Vbulletin, Xenforo someday if your forum starts to be profitable. Be prepared with redirections: All your old pages will require pointing to new … [Continue reading]
In order to know it, identify the day before the start of the traffic drop in Google search console or Google analytics. Here we can see a Google traffic drop on the 18th of September 2017. 1. Take a look at the date of your Wordpress plugins Open … [Continue reading]
Here is a list of companies that can send you money using the bank details from the global payment tab of a Payoneer account on their website. The companies don't require the additional procedure of due diligence (KYC) from the money sender. I have … [Continue reading]
We have extensively tested phpbb, myBB and SMF. We faced many issues with those free forum softwares. Some default themes of free forum platforms are not responsive: We found that the myBB and SMF default themes were no responsive and smartphone … [Continue reading]
The free forum platforms like phpbb, mybb, smf aren't as reliable as Xenforo, Vbulletin among others. Free forum softwares and the many theme issues I have downloaded SMF, MyBB and phpBB. For sure, the default themes don't look appealing. So, I have … [Continue reading]
Most of the time, when a domain is penalized by Google, it disappears from the google search engine. If you type "site:yourbannedwebsite.com" and if you see no result in google search engine, it means your website is banned from Google. You should … [Continue reading]