18 Recommended WordPress Plugins
Tried and tested WordPress plugins. A note on performance, to enable compression go to cPanel / Optimise Website and enable compression for all content. Test this with Google Page Speed to see if it's effective in improving performance for your site. The main tasks you want your Wordpress site to do security, backup, performance, content management, organisation and SEO, measure ...
Price Guardian for Hotel.com.au and Getaroom.com.au sites
Hotel prices fluctuate, if you find a good price today, what's to say that there won't be a sale on tomorrow with an even better price? You could look up the price every single day, but who wants to spend the time looking every day for a cheaper price? When you make your hotel booking at our Hotel.com.au or Getaroom.com.au ...
Registering a .uk domain name if located outside the UK
Address for service for a .uk domain must be in the UK. This can be the address of the UK domain registrar if using a UK registrar or the hosting provider if hosting in the UK. More at Nominet.org.uk
Coding for Kids that is Educational and Entertaining
Most coding for kids apps fail to maintain the child's and parents interest beyond the first 45 minute session. This is because there are only so many loops and steps you can take before it gets a bit boring. This is where gamification of coding helps. Grasshopper from Google learn.grasshopper.app One example of gamificiation of learning to code for ...
Ticket systems or JIRA and the difference between Resolved and Closed Issues
Any support or customer service or JIRA issue has a requestor or initiator and someone who does the work to resolve the issue or ticket. Any support or customer service ticket or JIRA issue is opened to start and closed to finished. The person who completes the task, ticket or issue sets the ticket to resolved. The person who wanted the ...
Content, Links and Search Ranking tips 2016 – 2020
Search ranking factors 2016 from Brian Dean of Backlinko - Ahrefs domain authority is a good indicator of ranking. Links work, https has an influence, schema markup language doesn't matter much. Site speed definitely helps ranking, title don't matter much sticking to one topic and writing a lot about it helps (long form 1,800 characters on average in position #1). ...
Seth Godin from 2007 – How to spread your ideas
Seth Godin from 2007 - How to spread your ideas Sliced bread was invented 15 years before it was widely taken up. The invention of sliced bread was essentially a failure until the idea was spread by advertising. Customers don't want email mail they want me-mail - it has to be about 'me' or them. https://youtu.be/xBIVlM435Zg
Roger Sharp Digital Tsunami
Roger Shard Chairmain APD, Non-Executive director Webjet - involved with Lastminute.com.au and sale to Wotif.com https://youtu.be/CE50Ndh2ZIw
Coding, Testing & Web Tools
Web Site Speed Tools FastOrSlow.com from Wordfence, test multiple global locations with one test and subscribe Server Tools Leaf DNS DNS Setup check viewdns.info other domains on same IP address, traceroute, ping and more SSLLabs.com SSL setup checker Why No Padlock which parts are not SSL secure on a page SEO Hacks Search for image url eg the authors head ...
Search Marketing SEO Resources – Who said content is king when its really links
Resources from across the web for better search marketing including keyword research, keyword rankings, backlinks, social media and brand mentions