JohnH70

You can thank my boss for that!! We hired a company to do our SEO and they penalised our domain through spammy work. I would like to shout the name of the company from roof tops but not sure if that would get us in trouble. They charged us over 1k a month. It was not cheap and it was UK based. Not sure I have ever asked about link building, might have done in older posts but that would be before we got hit and I educated myself. So did my boss. Now he is fanatical about it, which is good and bad in equal measure.

There are article shares on spammy PR spinning sites, these articles aren't even English. They make no sense. Lots of scabby directory links. Lots of foreign forum signatures. The list goes on. You only have to look to see the domains and the massive lack of quality. You do SEO roothost? If so you know how to check these things and you can see for yourself. I for one do not think it is right that someone acts the boss preaching and fails to follow their own preaching!!

His own site jasondexter.co.uk - if this is NOT his website then I strongly apologise!! But that website is an SEO by the name of jasondexter so it led me to believe that is him?

Yep. I see your posts and you are helpful without pretending. ps: not sure why my Safari doesn't like quotes on this forum

Still avoiding the subject of the spammy links. But that is cool. Wood for the trees and all that ....

Are you one of his clients? Seems very odd for a guy that preaches to not practice it on his own site. I would genuinely like to see this big client results because we need an SEO... we used to rank super high but that was 'over the years', things have changed.

You do blow your own trumpet hard on here don't you!! I though I would look at your own website to see how amazing your SEO skills are and all I can say is LOL. Spam links, low quality, blackhat and poor spammy anchors. In fact it would seem you don't actually rank for anything meaningful? I knew I smelt a big rat - why has no one questioned this 'guru' before???

Hello, hello. I've picked up some code from the web to put in my functions file. It's from a reputable source (hongkiat.com) but I can't get it to work, can any one tell why this doesn't work? add_action('generate_rewrite_rules', 'themes_dir_add_rewrites'); function themes_dir_add_rewrites() { $theme_name = next(explode('/themes/', get_stylesheet_directory())); global $wp_rewrite; $new_non_wp_rules = array( 'css/(.*)' => 'wp-content/themes/'. $theme_name . '/css/$1', 'js/(.*)' => 'wp-content/themes/'. $theme_name . '/js/$1', 'images/wordpress-urls-rewrite/(.*)' => 'wp-content/themes/'. $theme_name . '/images/wordpress-urls-rewrite/$1', ); $wp_rewrite->non_wp_rules += $new_non_wp_rules; }

I don't even know how to setup a cron job - thats my next Q!

I tried phpmyadmin but the databse is too big it just times out. Am I doing something wrong?

Going to give this a try -thanks.

Hello forum dwellers, my first post here and i'm afraid it's one asking for help. I've just paid for a vps for my hosting and i'm struggling to work out how to backup and restore my databases with SSH. I have google commands and stuff but as a complete newb at this i'm getting lost. Can anyone provide dummies guidance? THANKS!!