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For a theme you installed, you technically should only need to change your address in the Settings > General to https, and then do a database search and replace to change http://yourdomain to https://yourdomain. This will run through your posts and change internal links and image sources and in...

On the bottom left of Search Console you can "Go Back to Old Version" or something like that and still access all of those tools. They've said on Twitter that they're still porting tools to the new Search Console and it's not finished, which is why we still have access to the old one. They've...

@RMcdonald, that's what you would do. 301 each page from the old domain to the proper URL on the new domain. You should be able to do it all with one line in the .htaccess file with Regex. It's a good idea to add the new domain to the same Search Console account and on the old domain submit a...

Why don't you stop pussy footing around on tiny forums and go work some huge ones with huge traffic? Me and a Skype buddy routinely drop random posts on Reddit and score 1,000 visits on posts that end up with no upvotes. Just get the damn work done. Either work bigger traffic sites or crank up...

Yeah, it's not a huge issue worth sending out a notice. Ad networks simply get bad advertisers that get caught eventually through their automated means. But sometimes they slip through. I was playing a flash game earlier and the site has ads that re-load every few minutes, and one of the...

"No new friends" is a silly rap meme. What really ends up happening is you find unsuccessful people's motives for befriending you can't be trusted, either because they betray you and start begging or you're just a paranoid dummy who wasn't smart enough to not disclose his net worth or cash flow...

The reason everyone is telling you how to do it but not jumping at the opportunity is because this is a dead simple job that's not worth the time it'll take or the money you'll pay. This, however, is the perfect job for Fiverr or Upwork. For $5 to $10 you can have it done in 10 minutes or so...

2.1 million impressions with 6,800 link clicks is a 0.32% conversion rate. Using this to drive click traffic is worthless, but it could be gold for general branding, especially if you're using public memes and crap where you can watermark the images before posting them. It wouldn't take that...

@GoogleNewsLinks, are you going to keep shilling your service in every post you make? You even started a lab thread for the sole purpose of promoting your service. It's transparent and distasteful. Add more value and less self-promotion and you'll build trust. Your username is already bad...

If I was starting all the way over, I wouldn't. I'd buy a powerful domain, or better yet I'd buy a site that's already chugging along but can be better optimized and monetized. When you find yourself in the position of starting over, you need to leverage all of the experience you've gained so...

If there are things you aren't finishing for months or years on end, they likely were never important in the first place and you played yourself about them from day one. If they can be left unfinished, then they're likely finished and that last 5% is perfectionism creeping in.

The same way they identify PBNs = by using the link graph to spot unnatural linking patterns through time. They haven't needed us to use rel="pbn" yet they still can spot those. All you have to do is identify link nodes (domains) which have been busted doing other types of non-white hat link...

That's on the cheap end too. All the free ones are just crippled versions of premium ones that won't give you access to the results. The problem is that they have to do everything you described as being a pain in the butt easily for you while also replicating everything Google Optimize is doing...

5 years of not being in the index runs a big risk of those links being worthless. What you can do is buy it and put something up on it and see if you can get it to rank for a term that has a little competition. Rebuilding exactly what was there may bring the trust back to it too, letting it sit...

I'm not an expert on this but I'd suspect you should be able to tag a number as "yours" and have your pal attach email addresses to it too and any additional phone numbers. Then on the conversion, you could then check all that to see if you played a role. It boils down to trusting him to do...

@Sutra, visit them manually and see what you get. You deleted the categories, which means your posts aren't in those categories, which means there's no links to those categories. So something like Screaming Frog, which crawls and only see's pages with links to them, wouldn't see these pages...

@bernard, I'd say that shifting blame is a great defense in criminal court, especially if discovery can prove it was the 3rd party. At that point you may be liable financially to some degree but not criminally. In civil court though it's not a good defense, for sure, especially in this day and...

I've never had to deal with a chargeback, but I always try to prepare for it. I keep every piece of communication between myself and the buyer (or vice versa) whether that be email or chat on any platform, or a public forum, etc. They must include time stamps. You can keep track of invoices...

I'm trying to envision a scenario where this default sitemap would work on a basic install. Even if I created a 25 post site, with 5 pages and 20 posts, no custom post types, no tags, no custom taxonomy... it STILL wouldn't work. Why? Because I don't want a user sitemap and I don't want user...

I don't know that there's a specific number, but I've read people suggesting to flesh out the site fairly well, like at least 25 posts. That probably does play into the acceptance or rejection, but the problem I see people uncover more than anything is a lack of adding any value. Dummies get...