What is Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)? Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is a key metric in Core Web Vitals that is crucial for optimizing your site and improving its Google search ranking. CLS issues can negatively affect your Google search position and impact user experience. The more elements that “shift” during page load or scrolling, the […]
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How to prevent bots from adding items to cart – WooCommerce
If you use the Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce plugin (or its similar plugin), you’ve probably noticed that many products are added by bots. The main problem is that some of these bots are googlebot. Why does Googlebot add items to the cart? Googlebot crawls the site by clicking on all available links, including “Add […]
Notifying Google Search Console of issues with INP. What is known about INP at the moment?
Recently, many users have started receiving messages from Google Search Console saying that they need to fix their INP metrics in Core Web Vitals. At this point (July 2023), Google PageSpeed Insights has not made any changes and does not measure this metric in any way. Google introduced the INP (Interaction to Next Paint) metric […]
Google Search Console is no longer showing Core Web Vitals data
Core Web Vitals does not show data for desktops and mobile devices in the Google Search Console. Why? What should I do?? Recently, I’ve been receiving requests from clients with similar questions and issues related to Core Web Vitals and Google Search Console reports. Their main questions go something like this: Why is the number […]
How To Change Product Author in WooCommerce: A Useful Plugin Overview
By default, WooCommerce doesn’t provide the option to display or change the author of a product. This can be inconvenient, especially if you need to assign or reassign the author of a product. Our plugin addresses this issue by adding support for the ‘author’ field to the WooCommerce ‘product’ post type. Once installed, the product […]
How to Fix 409 Errors Caused by Contact Form 7 – Bluehost
When working as a web developer, you often come across a variety of technical issues that challenge your problem-solving skills. One such instance occurred recently with a regular client of mine. I was recently fixing a simple bug for a regular client of mine. His site is hosted on Bluehost, and some of his customers […]