Getting found once the site is live.
The hosting-adjacent parts of being found in search: getting indexed, sitemaps and robots.txt, redirects that preserve rankings, HTTPS and speed as ranking factors, and the technical checks worth doing after a migration. Practical groundwork, not tactics that stop working next year.
A vocabulary for describing a page in terms a machine can parse directly, and what it can realistically earn you.
What to check when traffic suddenly dropsConfirm it is real, then work through the causes in order of how likely and how fixable each one actually is.
Your first hour with a new hosting account.
26 articles WordPressInstalling, securing, updating and repairing WordPress.
43 articles EmailMailboxes, clients, forwarding and deliverability.
33 articles Domains & DNSNameservers, records, transfers and propagation.
36 articles SSL & SecurityCertificates, HTTPS, malware and hardening.
28 articles Control PanelFinding your way around the hosting panel.
26 articles Databases & MySQLMySQL users, phpMyAdmin, backups and repairs.
24 articles PHP & DevelopmentVersions, extensions, limits, cron and the shell.
28 articles Migrations & TransfersMoving a site or a domain in, without downtime.
22 articles Speed & PerformanceCaching, images, Core Web Vitals and slow sites.
28 articles Backups & RecoveryTaking backups, and restoring when it counts.
20 articles Errors & TroubleshootingSpecific error messages, and how to clear them.
44 articles VPS & ServersRoot access, SSH, firewalls and server basics.
30 articles Reseller HostingRunning a hosting business on our platform.
22 articles Ecommerce & WooCommerceOnline stores, checkout, payments and PCI basics.
26 articles FTP & File ManagementUploading, permissions and where files belong.
20 articles Billing & AccountInvoices, renewals, upgrades and cancellations.
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