How to Build a WordPress Website That Ranks: Complete 2025 Setup Guide

TL;DR: How to build a Wordpress website that ranks and doing it the right way from day one saves you months of fixes later. This comprehensive guide takes you from complete beginner to launching an SEO-optimised website that search engines love. What you’ll achieve: A fast, secure, mobile-friendly WordPress site with solid SEO foundations Time […]
How to rank a blog post on Google.

Recently, I saw in a FB group a person asking for help on how to rank a blog post on Google. As seasoned Pros frequent this group, it was disheartening to see the replies and the level of ignorance being offered in the guise of advice. Talking about SEO plugins rather than how to implement […]
UPDATED: WP Engine & Matt Mullenweg – The WP drama

TL;DR: Matt Mullenweg needs to make up his mind which side of the fence he’s sitting on, because at the moment he wants his cake & to eat it. WP Engine aren’t blameless, but Mullenweg is making the WP drama worse. So what’s it all about? Well, it’s quite simple really, or it was, & […]
How to protect content from AI crawlers and bad bots with robots.txt file.

TLDR; How to protect content by using robots.txt file & to dissuade AI crawlers and bad bots scraping, indexing, and taking content. Ever since ChatGPT announced in early August 2023 that it had released its crawler into the wild, content creators have been nervously looking over their shoulders for ways on how to protect content. […]
What are WordPress plugins?

TL;DR: What are WordPress plugins?: They do everything, and then some. We look into what they are, what they do and where to get them. What they are, what they do & when to use them “What are WordPress plugins?” Clients occasionally ask us this question, and it’s not quite as simple as it sounds […]
Which is the right website designer for you?

Which is the right website designer for you? It’s the eternal question if you are a new start-up and need the right person, or are reconsidering your internet offering. There are lots of posts out there telling you what to expect, mostly written by marketing or salespeople hoping that you’ll let them pitch to you, […]