In the online marketing world, a lot is written on the topic of SEO: How to optimize your content, how to build inbound links, how to do keyword research, and more. The list is practically endless. Every SEO strategy you employ complements the others, and this influences your overall SEO performance. With this in mind, it is perhaps surprising that one facet of SEO receives far less attention: the schema.org markup. For those unfamiliar with it, schema markup is essentially what drives the Rich Snippets functionality in the SERPs. Now, most regular web-users will be familiar with rich snippets, yet most […]
The Next Phase in Sucuri’s Lifecycle: Interview with Tony Perez, CEO of Sucuri
WordPress security, and website security more broadly, is constantly improving to address evolving security threats. Sucuri, a popular website security company, is stepping up its game to take security to the next level. Just last week the company announced its new partnership with Yoast. According to the announcement, this partnership comes at a time when Sucuri is undergoing some other big changes in messaging and branding. To better understand what this means for the future of Sucuri (and their approach to wesbsite security), I reached out to Tony Perez, CEO of Sucuri, for some insight. Here’s what he said: Q: Can you elaborate on […]
Getting Started with Vagrant for Local Development
Vagrant is a system for creating local web servers in portable, highly-configurable virtual machines on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Though there are lots of ways to create a local testing environment for WordPress development, Vagrant is one of the most powerful and configurable options. In this article, I’ll introduce Vagrant, and I will walk you through setting up VVV, a popular WordPress vagrant setup. The real advantage of Vagrant is that it’s totally customizable. This means you can emulate your production environment in your local development environment. When done right, this means no surprises when you go live. Developing with the […]
A Few Tips for Testing Plugins in a Live Environment
Last week, I wrote up a lengthy guide to finding the right plugin for Tidy Repo. The large majority of this has to do with testing plugins once you’ve found them, and I thought I might expand on this idea a bit. So here’s a couple of tips for anyone who feels like testing their plugins before installing it on their production site. Getting started For those looking to get a test site up quickly, there are a number of steps to take. The first is to boot up a fresh WordPress install like you would any other. The only difference […]
A Guide to Using Content Lockers with WordPress
Anyone looking to grow a successful online business is well aware of the pitfalls of becoming too dependent on the search engines as a source of traffic. Months of hard work can be undone, literally overnight, as Google constantly tweaks its algorithm. An important alternative source of traffic for most websites comes from the social media websites: Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ being the most important right now. Most of you will already have your social media logos prominently placed on your website to encourage social shares, but could you be doing more to encourage your readers to like, tweet, or […]

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