I’ll be honest, I used to think ranking #1 on Google was everything. Then, I watched pages of mine pulling thousands of visits a month get completely ignored by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and even Google’s AI Overviews. Turns out the top Google spot doesn’t guarantee you’ll reach your audience anymore, and it says nothing
Last quarter, I tested every lead magnet I could think of. I experimented with PDF guides, free email courses, templates, tools, and even free 30-minute strategy calls. One format outperformed the rest by 3x to 4x. It wasn’t the PDF or the course, it was hosting a free webinar. Learning how to host a webinar
I’ve been blogging long enough to trust my own analytics without thinking twice. So when I logged in a few weeks ago and saw the traffic sources and page performance data, none of it matched what I knew was actually happening on my site. That caught me off guard. Turns out I wasn’t imagining it.
AI prompt tracking has exploded as one of the biggest trends in AI SEO. Put simply, AI prompt tracking is the systematic monitoring of how your brand, name, or company shows up across all the major generative AI platforms (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and in Google’s AI Overviews). Now in 2026, more than 200+
Alright, so what actually makes for the best shared hosting plan for a new site? It’s a harder question than it seems on the surface, because so much of the advice online is years out of date, or just the same recycled list of names. I’ve blogged and run my own websites for 15+ years,
I took the exact same site, started with a lightweight theme, and did a complete WordPress speed optimization experiment to cut its load time from about 4.5 seconds to under 1 second. I changed seven things, but here’s the thing that surprised me… the last change (switching my WordPress hosting to GreenGeeks) made the first
I’ve lost more hours than I’d care to admit tweaking the fonts, colors, and layouts of my websites… instead of launching them. If you’ve ever found yourself nudging a button into place at 1:00am in the morning, you already know the problem isn’t publishing a site, it’s everything that comes before it. Enter: my Dreamhost
If you’re learning how to start a WordPress blog in 2026, my advice is simple: don’t overcomplicate it. The tools have changed, AI has changed how people discover content, but the fundamentals of building a successful blog are still the same. I’ve been blogging for 15 years, and one thing I’ve learned along the way
If design tasks are holding your business (or blog) back, you’re not alone. Spending hours creating blog visuals is a common bottleneck, but using Adobe Firefly for blog graphics has completely transformed my own workflow. High-quality visual content creation remains essential for attracting new leads, and with powerful AI design tools, you no longer need