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Updated May 13, 2020 What are the Benefits of Enabling WordPress Comments? Given the fact that WordPress comments are potentially a source of massive spam and require an investment of time and effort to manage on the part of site owners, there surely must be good reasons why site owners should enable comments in WordPress. […]

What Alternatives are there to Pingbacks?

Last Updated: March 11, 2022

Updated April 21, 2020 If you’d like to disable pingbacks, or XML-RPC completely, you’ll be stopping the automatic notification to other sites when you link to them in your WordPress blog posts. The act of notifying site owners that you’ve linked their way is an important thing that lets site owners track their popularity and […]

Are Pingbacks Good for SEO

Last Updated: March 11, 2022

Updated April 21, 2020 To be direct, yes and no… Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the science of doing “things” that will improve rankings on search engines with the understanding that sufficiently good search rankings will result in organic search traffic being directed to your website. One of the classic approaches to SEO is to […]

Updated February 20, 2020 Moving one website from an old host to new one can be a pain.  Moving 10 can be torture.  Make use of free migration assistance to save your time (and keep your peace of mind) in moving your site(s).  If you’ve never done it before – you’re in the minority.  Get […]