Articles by SEO Dave

Working on the Stallion Responsive 8.5 update and decided it was time to bite the bullet on fixing some PHP 7 deprecated constructor notices. These are PHP notices related to some PHP code (from PHP 4 I believe) which the PHP developers plans to deprecate in the future. Right now they aren’t PHP errors, but will be sometime in the future. Currently (October 2016) the PHP code is valid in PHP 5.* and PHP 7.0.*, so this is future proofing Stallion Responsive: IF PHP deprecates the code in PHP 7.1.* (not released) for example, Stallion Responsive 8.5 (update very soon) will be ready. PHP 7 deprecated Constructor Notices An example of the PHP 7.0.* notices are these: Note: The above […]

Is it wrong to hate web server configurations? You might think after reading this I’m a web server expert, I’m far, far, far from a server expert, just happen to be very good at finding server tutorials written by others and following their instructions! I’ve been using WAMPserver version 2.5 and XAMPP server 3.2.2 for localhost testing: WAMPserver and XAMPP are two ways to run an Apache server on a Windows PC for testing/development. WAMPserver 2.5 had Apache 2.4.* and PHP 5.5.* and XAMPP had Apache 2.4.* and PHP 7.0.* : also have a live server running Apache 2.2.* and PHP 5.3.*, the live server is well overdue an update. So I had three versions of PHP, but had to […]

Google Consultant article updated October 2016. Doing a bit of SEO spring cleaning in autumn :-) Although I’m an SEO consultant (update 2014: no longer offer SEO services, so I’m no longer an SEO consultant, but not changed all the content to reflect this) who deals mainly with Google (it’s THE most important search engine) until watching a recent episode of the Dragon’s Den (TV program on BBC2) I’d not come across the term Google Consultant before. The Dragon’s Den is a TV program where entrepreneurs/inventors pitch their businesses to a group of successful angel investors hoping to secure investment for a share of their business. In this particular episode someone was pitching something called StoryCode which is basically a […]

In the Stallion Responsive theme version 8.5 update (still working on the update) there’s a new feature to add custom hreflang tags code on: A Post by Post basis A Page by Page basis A Category by Category basis A Tag by Tag basis On the Post/Page/Category/Tag edit screen there’s a simple form for adding entire hreflang tag code sets. If you are familiar with the hreflang tags you’ll know you have to add them in sets. If there’s three language sections, each Post in that section will need identical hreflang tags code. Example HREFlang Tags Code For example if on this website I had three languages (EN GB, EN US and DE DE) and this Post: Languagenut Review was […]

If only there was a stop being added to Facebook groups feature, there would be no need for a rant. Unfortunately Facebook doesn’t have a Stop Being Added to Facebook Groups feature, so here’s the rant I’m sending Facebook via their FeedBack Form. Partial screenshot of my feedback to Facebook below. Facebook Feature Suggestion : Your Friend has Recommended this Group Dear Facebook Developers, Please learn basic netiquette and stop allowing your Facebook users to add their Facebook friends to groups without permission. It is unacceptable Internet behavior for forum owners to add people to a forum without their permission, yet you feel it’s acceptable to be added to a Facebook group (a forum) just because a Facebook friend doesn’t […]

The WordPress SEO Plugins: All In One SEO Pack Plugin and Yoast SEO Plugin have some really dumb SEO options related to noindex and nofollow. In the SEO theme I develop (Stallion Responsive) I list the bad SEO options (only list them, it doesn’t change them). Currently updating the SEO warning feature to work with the latest versions of the SEO plugins and it’s got worse!!! All In One SEO Pack Plugin Noindex and Nofollow SEO Damage Checking the “All In One SEO Pack Plugin” v2.3.9.2 and there are 15 check boxes on the main options page that can cause serious SEO damage, basically wastes a webmasters hard earned link benefit through noindex/nofollow!!! When using the All In One SEO […]