BlogWranglers migrated nearly a dozen sites from HTTP to HTTPS in the last month. The trend to HTTPS is clear. We found a few sources that have been tracking this trend and share them below, along with a few reasons. BuiltWith is an Australian website profiler that has been around since 2007. The following chart […]
Search Optimization
Page Load Speed Improvements of a CDN
A good Content Delivery Network (CDN) will improve your website’s page load speed. This is a great advantage for your visitors and for the search engine results you seek to improve. Primary reasons to use a CDN to improve page load speed: A better website visitor experience Reduce or eliminate page abandonment due to delayed […]
Moving Your HubSpot Blog from a Sub-Domain
Are you halving your inbound link credit without realizing it? Believe it or not these are two different URLs. But on this site you will find that the second BlogWranglers URL redirects to the first one. http://BlogWranglers.com http://www.BlogWranglers.com Cannonicalization is the process used by search engines to select one URL usually for a page when […]
I’m Migrating to WordPress, Will 301 Redirects Lose my PageRank?
We ask each prospective client why they want to move from HubSpot (or any other platform) to WordPress and what concerns they have. The number one “why” is the cost. The number one “concern” is losing PageRank. Each web site or blog owner has a different way of sharing their concerns. I looked through some […]
XML SiteMaps for Google, Bing, Ask and Google News
Are you using a WordPress plugin to manage your XML SiteMaps? Most people do. There are a lot of popular XML SiteMap Generator plugins, even with that very name, so how do you choose which one to use? I recently switched from Google XML Sitemaps to the Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps (link to WordPress Plugin Directory). Here is […]
Blasting the Google Sandbox
A simple definition of the Google Sandbox; When a new website is launched, with a new domain name, the site will not rank for key terms for two to four months. This means that you can search for unique terms on your website and your website will not be listed in the search results. For […]