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The Kurt & Kenny Podcast Episode 2: How Sharp is the Cutting Edge

In this second episode of the Kurt and Kenny Podcast, the bosses talk tech adoption. When is it a good idea to stay on the cutting edge of technology, and when is early adoption just a risky gamble? Kenny is a self-professed bleeding edge kind of guy. He’s first in line at Apple store when…

The Confusing Parts of Owning a Domain

Your website is broken up into many different pieces: Registration Domain Name Servers (DNS) Subdomains Hosting Emails Registration Registration is where you essentially license the use of your domain from ICANN. Domains are registered for a certain amount of time (usually in 1-year increments). Registering a domain is similar to signing a lease on an office…

How to Install an SSL Certificate on WordPress in 8 Steps

With the recent announcement from Google that they will be requiring security certificates on websites (or face the consequences of being deemed “insecure), we have found ourselves installing certificates on many websites even in the past few days. Since we’ve gotten the process pretty dialed in, we thought that others might find our process valuable as…

WP Optimize By xTraffic WordPress Plugin

WP Optimize By xTraffic

Among the three main features offered by WP Optimize, our favorite is the link optimization option. Amongst the abilities found in that piece of the plugin are the following: Auto-create internal links based on keywords or category names in post content Auto-create external links based on keywords in post content (hello affiliate links?) Auto-add no-follow attribute…

SEOPressor WordPress Plugin

SEOPressor

SEOPressor is a bit of a secret weapon. We use this alongside our Yoast SEO plugin but use the features separately. This plugin gives the ability to do multiple keywords along with tying right into the recommended content. It also auto-decorates text in your content based on the keywords you choose. It will suggest keywords…

Media File Renamer WordPress Plugin

Media File Renamer

One greatly underutilized search engine optimization tactic is image optimization, specifically regarding file names. The culprit is when we buy that super awesome photo from iStock and when it saves to your computer the file name is iStock8183952730-50872937.jpg. That is the most uninformative name an image could have. Then without thinking, we upload that image…