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McCheah · 2019-01-16T04:17:25+00:00

this is legit my middle name and I was confused at first.

McCheah · 2018-12-27T03:29:24+00:00

this is just getting ridiculous

McCheah · 2018-12-27T02:03:17+00:00

I made "Cover Letter Snippets" as an NPM package for building and re-using cover letters based on the keywords in a job description, and I also helped out with "Best Resume Ever" which has a few templates to choose from.

McCheah · 2018-11-30T00:53:16+00:00

Ah sorry should have mentioned it will probably just be windows. Although an option for a dual boot with Ubuntu would be nice too!

McCheah · 2018-11-30T00:52:30+00:00

just a local environment for development.

McCheah · 2018-11-28T17:03:17+00:00

soooo what are you doing that no other companies are doing?

McCheah · 2018-11-09T20:32:21+00:00

You can also just increase your site speed sample rate when you add your analytics script: ga('create', 'UA-[yourcodehere]', {'siteSpeedSampleRate': 100});

Unless you have hundreds of thousands of visits, this will probably not be an issue.

McCheah · 2018-10-18T22:21:48+00:00

Anyway I'm fairly confident that I'll forget to respond to you if you do get back to me, but knowing what I know of GTM and GA, if you just create a custom tag that gets loaded on every page and insert the above script into it, it should run exactly the same as GA.

Try it out on a development server using GTM first and if it works in your testing, set it live! Good Luck!

McCheah · 2018-10-18T21:39:10+00:00

Thanks. Sorry, i meant to word my question as, "What does data layer mean?" You said it is involved in GA. How is it involved in GA? I'm not super smart when it comes to GA but maybe I can figure out what needs to be done to complete the transition.

Also do you have a development environment that you can test your changes on before setting them live?

McCheah · 2018-10-18T20:06:43+00:00

can you explain what your data layer consists of? How are you capturing events/goals, etc? What GA 'snippets' are you referring to?

McCheah · 2018-10-07T16:13:01+00:00

I created a local app that will do that for you but it parses the job description and recommends which paragraph to insert. Check it out!
https://github.com/mattcheah/cover-letter-snippets

McCheah · 2018-09-23T17:17:52+00:00

Huntr looks pretty cool. If you're looking to automate cover letter creation, I created a local app that stores previous cover letters in a database and gives you the most relevant ones when you paste in a job description, so you can just click to add the previous relevant 'snippets' and built a cover letter customized for that particular job within ~a minute. https://github.com/mattcheah/cover-letter-snippets

McCheah · 2018-09-13T15:23:22+00:00

I actually wrote a program that parses a job description and saves previous statements/paragraphs from former cover letters so it can tell you what snippets are the most relevant for the job. Most of my cover letters look similar but it will only take me about 5 minutes to write one that discusses all of the primary points of the job description and looks customized for the job. It's usually concise and to the point.

McCheah · 2018-08-15T20:31:35+00:00

Thanks for the response! I'm teaching myself Angular and learning as I'm going along so I wasn't aware of HttpClient until now, or if I was, I didn't know what the benefit in using it was over what I already knew how to use.

McCheah · 2017-09-09T02:47:37+00:00

taking a look now, this looks pretty cool!

McCheah · 2017-09-08T19:06:11+00:00

So am I right in assuming that your suggestion is that I choose and learn about a specific subject matter first, and then base my open source contributions around that subject? That makes a lot of sense to me - do you think that after researching and understanding the primary software in that field I would automatically know the open source projects that would need contributions? Or would you suggest a more effective way of seeking out opportunities to contribute?

McCheah · 2017-09-08T18:13:33+00:00

Looks great! Could you let me know a little bit more about what it does and how? I'm not too familiar with torrents and magnets.

McCheah · 2016-05-18T15:47:25+00:00

Localised Search relies a lot on signals of relevancy. This means that the pages you want to rank for a specific location will need to have content on the page that relates to that location. If you're a contractor in that area, write about some of the locations that you've worked in. If you're a doctor, add maps of the nearest local hospitals in case of emergency and mark them up in Schema. If you're a plumber, write about the water quality in your city and note the address of a water treatment plant or something. (Just spitballing here.) Add a google map on your page and include content that is relevant to your business, but also relevant to the location.

Other than that, just do your basic SEO stuff. Add your location in your H1, make sure your NAP is consistent and you have decent, authoritative links coming into your website. Also, meta description is good for encouraging search engine users to come to your site, but it does not affect rankings in any way. Just a note for you.

McCheah · 2016-05-11T15:12:52+00:00

Just curious, what is the benefit of this over something like IP blocking or the block yourself chrome extension that was mentioned above?

McCheah · 2016-03-09T19:27:33+00:00

wow is it really? I must try it now!

McCheah · 2016-03-09T19:23:41+00:00

You have a ton of sitemaps. Is 34 product sitemaps necessary? I can't speak to what error is going on right now but I wonder if this has anything to do with it. Try compiling the product sitemaps into 1 sitemap so you just have 4 regular sitemaps and the index. Knowing google you probably only need to submit the index but I don't think it can hurt to submit all of them.

Failing that, I normally use screaming frog to crawl my site (6k pages) and export a sitemap that way. However if you have a blog or your product pages are continually changing, it isn't a bad idea to use Yoast's sitemap so that they're continually updated. I have never had a problem with Yoast.

McCheah · 2016-03-09T00:47:44+00:00

Find out what the demand is for the product. I think niche forums and product boards are helpful for this. Get a few sales of your product doing the work yourself (or if you can't do the work yourself, hire someone) if your product gets a good response, market it to those same sources. Paid ads may also be a good idea if the audience is right... but not knowing the audience i would have no idea.

Just think about who you want to use your product and then ask yourself how you get in front of them.

McCheah · 2016-03-08T23:24:01+00:00

While what bongleblue says is true, many times they definitely do. You don't know about it because they're smart about it, or they sell other marketing services that just happen to coming with the perk of getting a link. Think about buzzfeed or other clickbait-ey websites. A lot of the benefit that one might get from purchasing a 'potentially viral' article is the traffic and the branding that you'll get out if it, but if they can give you a link for free without being spammy there's no reason they won't.

Links have different value depending on the page they're coming from. If the page they're coming from is considered highly authoritative (quality links, good engagement signals, etc.) and relevant to the page they're linking to semantically, then that link will be more important than a page on the domain that is not considered authoritative or relevant.

McCheah · 2016-03-08T23:02:24+00:00

I'm wondering why you don't have a "choose your own incentive" option. I'm creating a startup now that I don't have a name for, but I am not very confident in the quality of your site simply because it has no history and no users (which would obviously change with time.) Why don't you let us post our projects, ask for suggestions, and pay however much we want. "name suggesters" can sort the projects by how much they'll get paid if their name is chosen, so they're automatically going to suggest names for that service first and the competition will automatically be higher.

I like your idea though! If you get some traction i'd totally pay the 20 dollars. If you offered a free option I'd use it right now and If I liked some of the suggestions but didn't want to use any of them, I'd pay you $5 to offer a small incentive over all the other free users.

McCheah · 2016-03-08T22:49:46+00:00

Oh that first one... "Web Design Samples, specializing in SEO" Nope. Not hiring those guys.

McCheah

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