About Graham McCormack

Graham McCormack is an SEO Specialist based in Wirral, UK with more than 10 years experience offering services to agencies and clients alike.

Website Not Showing in Google Search?

Not Ranking in the Google Top 100?

If you have published a post or a page which is targeted toward particular keywords and you are tracking it, you should be able to see it fall into the top 100 Google results within at most a few weeks. If this is not the case then there could be a number of reasons but here’s some advice.

In the first instance head over to Google and enter any one of the following (submit domain for YOUR website):

site:domain.com

domain.com

“domain.com”

info:domain.com

You should see your website in the results. If you do not then you have bigger issues. If you do see it then you’re just not ranking.

NOINDEX – If your website is built on WordPress then make sure you haven’t left the “Discourage search engines from indexing this page” check box ticked. Sometimes developers have this on when they are developing a site and accidentally leave it on. The same applies to pages and posts, double check you haven’t set them to noindex.
Not In Google’s Index – It’s possible that Google has not yet crawled your site. Add your website into Google Console and ask Google to fetch the site or type into Google “submit a url to Google” and submit it directly through there. You should also be building out your branded sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other platforms ready to promote your business to your potential customers. As you do this make sure you add your URL to them, they are NOFOLLOW links but Google still crawls them (it just doesn’t pass link equity).You can also install a video sitemap xml plugin and submit this to

Graham McCormack2019-12-02T16:37:44+00:00July 3rd, 2018|

Introduction

Personally I’m not a huge fan of relying upon plugins to speed a website up but they do have their uses and of course they are generally more convenient to use.

So here’s a run down of a few of the plugins that I like to use when facing the optimisation of a WordPress site.

GZip Ninja speed compression

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gzip-ninja-speed-compression/

GZip Ninja speed compression is a great plugin which compliments W3 Total Cache nicely.

I have optimised hundreds of websites over the years and they all react differently to optimisation plugins. I normally begin with w3 Total Cache but on this occasion (during my tutorial) my client’s website did not respond very well to the built in browser compression element of the W3 plugin, enter the GZip.

Here are a couple of before and after screen grabs from Google Page Speed Insights:

BEFORE

AFTER

Leverage Browser Caching Ninja

I put this plugin on because the total cache plugin in this instance did not improve our score on tools.pingdom.com

Here is a screenshot AFTER I installed the “Leverage Browser Caching Ninja” plugin:

You can see that the browser caching issue has gone away, however it has affected “Remove query strings from static resources”

Graham McCormack2019-12-02T16:37:57+00:00October 16th, 2017|

Can’t Login to WordPress but sure your details are correct?

If you can’t login to WordPress and you know your details are correct here is a very common cause with a simple solution:

Check for a string similar to this in your URL

wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fdomain%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

It’s a common fault in WordPress.

The solution is to remove all of the excess code so you end up with just:

wp-login.php

Refresh the page, ensuring that the excess code is now gone and try and log in again. If you still can’t login then you are looking at a more in depth issue, try resetting your password in the first instance. If that won’t work then you can still move forward so long as you have FTP or Hosting/Cpanel/Backend access by resetting your password manually (this would take a more in depth post).

Graham McCormack2018-05-28T20:37:29+00:00February 9th, 2017|

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