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I helped a client recover from a nightmare hack when she lost 40,000 email subscribers. Three days of her life disappeared in damage control, her reputation took a hit and she is still recovering. But here’s the thing. Within three hours of implementing appropriate security measures, we made their website bulletproof. Two years later? No […]

One of the most frustrating things about building great websites is finding the right images. You spend hours searching stock photo websites for something that matches your content. Then you worry about licensing issues. Will this image cause you trouble later? Even when you find the perfect photo, the work isn’t done yet. You need

My agency has grown faster than I can keep up with. And to keep up with demand, I had to offer services that I hadn’t offered in the past. A lot of people have come to me and asked, “Alvin, I trust you with my SEO and content. Can I also trust you with developing

I used to rely heavily on meta ads to drive traffic and conversions for my content. But Meta has changed their algorithm from 2021 to 2025, especially with the new Meta Andromeda ads AI. This caused a huge drop in my conversion rates. What once generated solid leads for less than $2 per conversion suddenly

I spent three months using WordPress popup plugins with mixed results. Sure, they captured visitors’ emails at the perfect time. But I found that users often felt interrupted rather than helped. People would land on my blog posts and see generic pop-ups asking for their email address without offering anything of value in return. Trust

Imagine this: you just landed on a beautifully designed page and before you get the information you need, five pop-ups appear. Now you are distracted and annoyed and quickly leave the site. As a WordPress expert, I completely understand this frustration. But at the same time I understand the importance of popups. They’re great for

I love my Divi page because it looks so beautiful and professional. It has been running my SEO agency perfectly for years. But recently I wanted to make a change to see if I could make my website lighter and faster. I’ve helped dozens of clients improve their website performance and even created a WordPress

Last month a customer called me in a panic. Their online store, which I helped build, loaded so slowly that customers abandoned their carts before checking out. We did a quick test – 12 seconds on the phone. This is business suicide in 2025. Within two hours of following a simple optimization checklist, we reduced

Building eCommerce websites has always felt like an uphill battle for me. Every theme I tried was way too heavy for real use. The result was that my websites became crawling like snails, which resulted in customers leaving the website immediately. The user experience was completely destroyed by bloated code. See, I love minimalist approaches

Recently I published an article about the best brute force security plugins for WordPress. This comes after a huge response from countless readers to my general guide to security plugins last year. But then I thought to myself: what’s next after brute force protection? Is brute force security enough? I also need to show my