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- Thinking About Switching From WordPress? What Should You Consider Before You Move?
- The Airtable Acquisition Raises a Bigger Question: Do You Really Own the Software Your Business Runs On?
- How to Use Google Search Console’s New Generative AI Data to Improve Your SEO
- How to Update the Same Website Content on Multiple Pages at Once
- Discovered vs. Crawled Not Indexed in Google Search Console: What’s the Difference and How to Fix Each
- The Small Business Guide to Auditing Google Ads and Website Costs
- Do Professional Writers Still Need SEO in the Age of AI?
- Search Engine First vs. People First Content: Why Generic FAQ Dumps Harm Your SEO
- Looking for a Website Builder Without AI? Which One Should You Choose?
- Keyword Cannibalization: How to Find and Fix the Pages Stealing Your Own Google Traffic
- Why Great Content Gets Stuck on Page 8 (And How to Fix It)
- Why MySQL FULLTEXT Search Returns 0 Results (And How to Fix It)
- The Reality of Domain Speculation on New TLD Launches: Is It Still Worth It?
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- Paying $10,000 a Month for SEO? Here’s How to Tell If You’re Getting Your Money’s Worth
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- How to Fix the WordPress “Critical Error” on the Widgets Page After a PHP Upgrade
- The Hidden Risk of SaaS Website Builders: Lessons from the Recent Wix Outage
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Thinking About Switching From WordPress? What Should You Consider Before You Move?
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I'm thinking about switching from WordPress to another platform.
It's not a complicated website, but over the years, I've had to add many plugins, for SEO, security, backups, forms, page building, etc. It feels like my website is living in an old house, and we're just waiting for the roof to leak, or something to break. I've been googling for discussions about migrating away from WordPress and found UltimateWB. Most other discussions I've found are the opposite, and
Posted in Ask David!, Compare Website Builders
Tagged 301 redirects, AI website builder, cpanel, css, custom url, customizable, drag-and-drop alternative, drag-and-drop website builder, duda, easy maintenance, flexible, htaccess, html, javascript, migrating website, ownership, page history tool, redirects, responsive app, switching website builders, third-party plugins, web hosting choice, Wix, WordPress, wordpress alternative, WYSIWYG
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How to Use Google Search Console’s New Generative AI Data to Improve Your SEO
If you run a website, you’ve probably noticed a massive shift in how people find information online. Between AI Overviews at the top of search results and interactive search interfaces like AI Mode, traditional organic search traffic patterns are changing fast.
For a long time, site owners had no clear way to measure this visibility. Google addressed this gap by introducing dedicated Generative AI performance reporting inside Google Search Console (GSC). If the update has rolled out to your Search
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Posted in AI, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tagged AI crawling, ai impressions, ai mode, ai overviews, AI visibility, clicks, crawlers, ctr, Generative AI performance, Google Search Console, Googlebot, gsc, headings, indexing, keyword research, keyword stuffing, keyword targeting, organic traffic, page structure, schema markup, search engine results, search performance, seo, seo strategy, serps, structured data, user experience
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How to Update the Same Website Content on Multiple Pages at Once
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Question: “I’m currently using Squarespace and am so tired of all the limitations. I have a section that needs to be the same on several pages. It is a mix of text/images. I just want to be able to update this section once and have it automatically updated on every other page that I have it on.
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Tagged ad(d)s app, adds manager, centralized management, collection pages, embed code, flexibility, footers, global sections, HTML Ad(d)s app, html adds, placeholder text, save time, side sections, squarespace, squarespace alternative, styles manager, summary blocks, synced patterns, webflow, wix studio, WordPress
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Do Professional Writers Still Need SEO in the Age of AI?
With AI tools flooding the web with generic, automated content, many professional writers are asking the same question: If you have 10+ years of writing experience, do you still need to learn SEO to stay relevant?
The short answer is no - you don't need to become a technical SEO engineer. But you do need to understand content SEO: how people search, what they are actually looking for, and how modern search engines and AI assistants discover and understand
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Posted in AI, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Web Content
Tagged ai, ai slop, authority, bloat, content seo, core web vitals, crawl budget, fast website, fresh content seo, header tags, javascript, keyword stuffing, schema markup, search intent, seo, site architecture, sitemap, technical seo, third-party plugins, writer, xml, xml sitemap
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Looking for a Website Builder Without AI? Which One Should You Choose?
If you have spent any time recently searching for a way to build a website, you have probably noticed a pattern: almost every major platform is pushing “AI website generators” or “AI website builders.”
They promise you can type in a single prompt and have a complete, published website in thirty seconds. But as hundreds of creators, developers, and small business owners on Reddit and web design forums are pointing out, the reality is rarely that simple.
If you are
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Posted in AI, Compare Website Builders
Tagged ai costs, AI website builder, all-in-one website builder, backend, backlinks, bloat, brand consistency, brand identity, branding, clean code, colors, control, css, customizable, customization, easy website builder, fast website, flexibility, fonts, high-quality content, html, no ai, ownership, performance, php, Prompt-Based Web Design, saas, server access, subscription fees, third-party plugins, typography, user experience, website builder without ai
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The Hidden Risk of SaaS Website Builders: Lessons from the Recent Wix Outage
When a major website builder suffers a service disruption, online business owners collectively hold their breath.
During a recent incident detailed on the Wix status page, site owners encountered 503 "Service Unavailable" errors, log-in failures on their admin dashboards, and widespread downtime across published pages. While server issues can happen anywhere on the web, how a disruption impacts your business comes down to one core architectural choice: Hosted SaaS vs. Self-Hosted Software.
Here is what the disruption highlighted about the
... Continue readingWix vs. UltimateWB for Membership Websites with Photo Galleries
Building a website where every member gets their own profile and photo gallery sounds simple - until you actually try to build it with a website builder that is not made for that.
Many general website builders allow visitors to create basic accounts. But once you want members to upload photos, manage their own galleries, customize profile fields, or interact with other members, you quickly discover that not every platform was engineered for user-generated content.
Here is a look at
... Continue readingThe Latest WordPress Core Exploit (wp2shell) and Why Forced Updates Break Websites
One of the biggest promises of WordPress is automatic security updates. When a critical vulnerability is discovered, millions of sites can be patched automatically without site owners having to lift a finger.
But when those background updates unexpectedly break active websites, that convenience quickly becomes a liability.
That is exactly what unfolded following the recently disclosed wp2shell vulnerability chain.
While issuing rapid patches was the right decision from a security standpoint, the automated push inevitably triggered unexpected compatibility crashes, fatal
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Tagged Allowed memory size exhausted, automatic security updates, broken wordpress website, cache, cdn, fatal errors, forced updates, max_execution_time, memory_limit, mysql, php, plugin, sql, sql injection, third-party plugins, WordPress, wordpress bugs, wordpress core, wordpress core exploit, wordpress core vulnerability, wordpress hacked, WordPress REST API, wordpress vulnerabilities, wp2shell
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The “AI Employee” Illusion: Why Fully Automated SEO Is Still Marketing Fiction
The tech world is currently obsessed with "autonomous agents." If you scroll through Reddit, X, or tech startup forums, you will inevitably run into viral playbooks written by developers claiming they have successfully replaced their entire marketing department with a machine. The headlines write themselves: "My AI employee runs my SEO while I sleep, and Google has no idea."
These posts offer highly seductive blueprints. They promise that with a simple terminal tool, a few API connections, and a
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Posted in AI, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tagged ai, ai agent, AI hallucinations, AI SEO, ai slop, api, authority, boost traffic, GitHub, google search engine ranking, llm, seo
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Why Webflow, WordPress, Squarespace & Wix Fall Short on Page Backups (And the UltimateWB Fix)
As a web developer, there is a distinct type of panic that sets in when your phone rings and a client says: "I was trying to update the text on the homepage, and... I think I broke something."
You open the site, and sure enough, the layout you meticulously optimized for speed, design, and user experience is completely skewed.
On many website
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