Author: Alan

  • Google not able to fetch robots.txt

    Recently I was getting a message from Web Master Tools, Googlebot can’t access your site! Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 87 errors while attempting to access your robots.txt. To ensure that we didn’t crawl any pages listed in that file, we postponed our crawl. Your site’s overall robots.txt error rate is 64.4%   Recommended action…

  • Forcing a site to HTTPS using .htaccess

    Occasionally you may want a site to be fully https. Especially since Google recently said that they may prefer HTTPS sites as getting a certificate is a costly exercise so spammers are less likely to adopt SSL. Within .htaccess the code is as follows RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]    

  • Forcing a page layout conditionally in Genesis

    Often it is prudent to force a page layout, especially the home page. Within Genesis, the guidance is fairly scant   <?php //* Do NOT include the opening php tag //* Force content-sidebar layout setting add_filter( ‘genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout’, ‘__genesis_return_content_sidebar’ ); //* Force sidebar-content layout setting add_filter( ‘genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout’, ‘__genesis_return_sidebar_content’ ); //* Force content-sidebar-sidebar layout setting add_filter( ‘genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout’,…

  • KashFlow Discount Code

    Kashflow Coupon Code There are many sites that offer a Kashflow Coupon Code, but are they genuine and current? My affiliate code for KashFlow is current as of 2017, and using this discount code you can get real savings on your KashFlow subscription. I am only promoting KashFlow as I use it myself and it…

  • How to speed up a WordPress website?

    There are many ways to improve your WordPress site speed, however there are a couple of really simple and free things you can do that will increase WordPress site speed. I am talking about self hosted WordPress here of course, not if you have a blog on WordPress.com. If you are self hosting WordPress then…

  • Who is anticrawler.org and is it safe

    Who is anticrawler.org and is it safe

    I noticed I got referred from anticrawler.org on  my Piwik analytics. Obviously suspicions were immediately raised, but required some further investigation. The site, anticrawler.org  just has a simple request for you to add some javascript to your website. See screen shot of anticrawler.org   There is no further information, so trust level has to be…