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Google Updates Search Console with Mobile Indexing Data

Published: 11/29/2018 2:48 AM
Last Updated: 11/30/2018 2:12 PM

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Major update to the Google Search Console! Google recently released a new version of the Google Search Console that includes data from the mobile search index. This is BIG, BIG news!

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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CSS Inheritance Override Examples

Published: 11/30/2018 1:01 PM
Last Updated: 11/30/2018 2:05 PM

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Two problems were presented to me for input. The first was creating a solution apply a specific style an image without using a class on the image element. The caveat to this was that it had to work with a content management system that utilizes dynamically generated container IDs. The second request was to provide a solution to a problem with inline styling in the same content management system. While neither of these solutions are grand, they may be useful to those wanting to learn more about inheritance.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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1and1 CDN Clear Cache and Developer Mode

Published: 9/1/2018 11:15 PM

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An update on my earlier post. I couldn't accept that the answers I was given from the 1 and 1 support tech were right. I was told that you can only turn CDN on or off. After doing some more research on the image caching issue, I found that this is easily possible through a direct account with Cloudflare. I also found that 1and1 has been using Cloudflare as a CDN provider for years. I can't be the only one who ever asked to clear cache or make modification beside the simple on or off switch. Here i

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

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CDN Image Cache Differences

Published: 9/1/2018 6:00 PM

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While getting ready for the release of the new version of this site, I was doing some testing on any device I could get my hands on. Didn't matter if it was a PC, tablet, android device or an iDevice. My hopes was that I would see similar updates reaching all devices at the same time. Granted, that wouldn't happen if I didn't make sure to clear local cache on the device I was testing. But... I made sure that was done. Here is what I found that surprised me.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

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Soon

Published: 8/30/2018 10:30 PM

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It's been a long time in the works. After having taken one step back, I was able to finally catch up to where I was.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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One Step Back, Two Steps Forward

Published: 8/28/2018 6:30 AM

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During the process of expanding the development site to include more structured data types I found a few things that need tweaks and other items that need a total reworking. I am in hopes that after doing a final round of testing and validation that this will be the model that I use going forward. Here is what I did.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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1&1 Cloudflare CDN does not support non www URLs

Published: 8/22/2018 7:45 AM

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This morning I woke up all excited to find out if my Cloudflare CDN had propagated. After doing some testing through 1&1's own website speed tool and many runs through GTmetrix on a global scale. I wasn't seeing any indication or validation that the CDN was working. So, I called 1&1 support. Here is what I found. delivery

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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CDN Testing Tool

Published: 8/21/2018 9:00 PM

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Between running tests to see if my Cloudflare CDN has populated, I have been reading CDN reviews and looking over different options. In my research I found an excellent resource.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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1and1 CDN

Published: 8/21/2018 5:15 PM

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It's all about speed! Adter spending part of my morning pushing out the AMP feature to the development site, I started looking at the cost and possible website speed increase from using a content delivery network (CDN). Here is what I found.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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AMP and CSS !important

Published: 8/21/2018 6:58 AM

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While testing the article AMP (accelerated mobile pages) with the Google AMP Test. I found something that I hadn't run into before.

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Bryan Myers - "The Web Guy"

Advanced Digital Channel Engineer

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