If you want to grow your authority online in the age of AI, you’ll need a website that loads quickly and serves the content AI search crawlers are looking for. Modern search now runs on speed, and slow sites get left behind. Enter: My guide to speeding up WordPress for greater AI visibility. There’s a
You run a website speed test, it hands you a shiny A-grade score up in the 90s, and you figure your site is… fast. Then you pull up that same page on your phone in line for coffee and sit there watching a blank screen load for 3 full seconds. So which one is actually
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 It’s a harder question than it seems on the surface, because so much of the advice online is years out of date, or just the same recycled list of names.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