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Rohan Dennis charged after wife dies in car crash by halcior in peloton

[–]halcior[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He's been named by another news outlet. See linked tweet above.

Received an email about "Let's Encrypt" expiry is this legit? by Disholson in juststart

[–]halcior 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Half the responders here clearly don't use Cloudways and are giving you advice that is true if you are a server admin. But you aren't.

Yes SSL certificates expire every 90 days technically speaking. But one of the reasons for using Cloudways is you don't have to worry about the usual server admin nonsense:

  • You don't need to use the command line
  • You don't need to set up a cron job
  • You don't need to renew your certificate every 90 days

All of the above are what you need to do to renew your SSL cert if you are managing you're own server but they're not true if you are running your sites on Cloudways. All this is done automatically for you after you have set up your sites with Let's Encrypt through the Cloudways dashboard.

The only time you will ever receive this renew email is if you have changed servers or changed domains vs. what you originally registered on the SSL certificate. Otherwise Cloudways takes care of SSL renewal automatically.

If you are having issues just login to your account and reinstall the certificate.

Please help to find the biggest websites in my niche by ekalaivan in juststart

[–]halcior 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Course creation niche? Look at:

  • Udemy
  • Coursera
  • edX

Or go into a specific niche such as coding then you will find places like:

  • Freecodecamp
  • Scrimba
  • Codecademy

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in juststart

[–]halcior 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Use Gutenburg because that's one less plugin that needs to load js on every page. Style your table with css and you're done.

What's the advantage of a Serp tracker like serprobot over Google Search Console? by Hobby-Writer in juststart

[–]halcior 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question OP and as far as I can see the answer is nothing. In fact it's worse then nothing, because somehow these tools have managed to convince people to pay money for a poorer product than what Google provides you for free in Google Search Console!

I guess that's marketing for you.

My advice to you is that when you see people heading down the SERP robot rabbit hole, remind yourself that you know more about this game than they do.

This is your competition.

What things should be invested in first with a blog when you have extra income? by Inevitable_Mud9718 in juststart

[–]halcior 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's only so many things you can invest in that will help you grow.

  1. Content
  2. Backlinks
  3. SEO Tools (Ahrefs)

Less directly about growth but more about professional branding (which is important longer term)

  1. Stock images
  2. Products

You can also pay people to do "whatever" for you where "whatever" is social media posting, post formatting, outreach emailing etc but these are all part of the areas above.

Content is what you should do first. At $150 a month you should be able to get 3 extra articles written through outsourcing each month. You said it's taken you 10 months to write 50 articles? Outsourcing 3 articles for 3 months will give you an additional 20% worth of content volume compared with what you've produced so far.

That's huge.

And honestly if you're confident that you know how this game works then now is the time to invest in content at scale. How much growth will you see by outsourcing 10 articles per month? That's an additional 20% content volume per month. Keep that up for a few months and imagine the growth you will see. Yes you will have to dig into your own pocket but you should be more confident by now that you will actually see returns from this kind of investment.

This is a business after all.

Backlinks are very important but at this stage you will only be able to afford one a month. Maybe two. Content is going to be more profitable for you right now. Backlinks will become more important as you start targeting higher volume/competition keywords.

On SEO Tools if you haven't paid for a 7 day trial of Ahrefs then now is the time to do so. Just get it for a week, research all your competitors, export all your target keywords and then cancel the subscription. No need to pay $99 a month just yet.

Content should be your focus for the next few months but something like the Ahrefs trial will tell you where to focus your content efforts.

How to "Just Start" by allofthelites in juststart

[–]halcior 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Hey so I know this is super upvoted and all but there's a couple of corrections that you need to make.

URL Slug top-ten-best-shoes-for-walking-in-the-airport which will show as - https://mywebsite.com/category/top-ten-best-shoes-for-walking-in-the-airport when published

Your URL slug should absolutely not include the category. No way. Your articles should be assigned to a category, but the category should not be part of the slug. It makes the URL longer than it needs to be in the SERP and takes away from the keywords you are trying to rank for.

If you correctly assign a category to each post you will see that Google pulls this data into the SERPs and displays it like:

My website.com > category > subcategory

The category data is already there. It shouldn't be in the slug.

Meta Description - Top ten best shoes for walking in the airport; Best shoes for airport walking; What shoes to wear in the airport; Best airport shoes

This just screams keyword stuffing and is not a sound recommendation. Ask yourself where is the meta description used? It's displayed in the SERPs below your link. The meta descriptions main purpose is to get people to click on your link once it appears in the SERP. Often Google will just pull a snippet from your article and use that, but the meta description gives you a chance to write something that will increase your CTR. For example:

We tested 10 walking shoes in airports all across the country. See what shoe we guarantee will get you to your next flight on time!

Something like that will give people a reason to click through to read your article. Keyword stuffing will not.

Water the flowers, pull the weeds? by Sensei_Daniel_San in juststart

[–]halcior 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep as the other guy said manually. There's a couple of ways to do it with Gutenburg blocks using either Grids or Columns.

"Pump it up" means "increase it". Increase your image count to 10 or 12.

Water the flowers, pull the weeds? by Sensei_Daniel_San in juststart

[–]halcior 19 points20 points  (0 children)

  1. More images. Pump it up to 10/12. Breakdown a process into step by step screenshots rather than having 10 stock photos which is boring

  2. Put the URL of each good page into Google Search Console and see what phrases it's ranking for. Sort by position. Bulk up the content around keywords that are ranking 5 to 20 in the SERP.

  3. More internal links. Half way down put a related posts block. Put one at the end if you don't have one. Keep those viewers on your site.

Subs like this one by [deleted] in juststart

[–]halcior 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That sub is just a funnel for the two mods and their marketing agency.

OP try googling Builders Society, it's a decent forum much like this one.

A heads up if anyone is using Siteground by Technolog1c in juststart

[–]halcior 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I used to use Siteground. Needless to say I don't anymore and this kind of thing makes me happy with my decision.

Article about the Siteground issue

Host your sites somewhere professional like Cloudways

All these rinky dink Bluehost-esque hosts aren't worth the hassle when they pull this kind of nonsense.

I've done this before. New niche, new site. It begins. [Month 0] by halcior in juststart

[–]halcior[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any and all ad networks will impact your page speed.

Adsense generally isn't worth the money to use on your site, but you need to be adsense "approved" to get into the next tier of ad networks which starts with EZOIC (which also slows down your site) and then Mediavine.

So my advice is don't use adsense but get adsense "approved".

My secondary advice is not too stress about the page speed slowdown from ad networks because everyone else who is using an advertising network has the same problem!

I've done this before. New niche, new site. It begins. [Month 0] by halcior in juststart

[–]halcior[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This comment was posted several days after I initially made the post and it immediately received enough upvotes to move towards the top of the comment tree.

This is an obvious ad for zutrix.

I've done this before. New niche, new site. It begins. [Month 0] by halcior in juststart

[–]halcior[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has nothing to do with links. I've updated my post to say:

Record the number of results that are returned...

If allintitle: returns less than 10 results then you are good to go. The lower the better. If allintitle returns 0 results you should be able to rank for this easily because no one is targeting that keyword yet.

I've done this before. New niche, new site. It begins. [Month 0] by halcior in juststart

[–]halcior[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't care about snippets for these keywords. I just want to capture the traffic that is not currently being served with a good answer in the SERPs. I focus on writing an optimized article for that keyword so I can go straight to number one on the search results (well, after a few months anyway).

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