Like most blogs, I have a Facebook page that shares the articles I publish on this blog and the videos I publish to YouTube. Despite the fact that Facebook is a powerful way to connect to an audience, I devote next to no time or energy to the platform. Firstly, …
A big part of search engine optimisation involves managing internal and external hyperlinks on your website. Nine attributes are available for the HTML anchor element (<A>). The most important attribute is href as it defines the URL a user should go to, but you will also see the target attribute …
WordPress remains the most popular platform for building websites. There are great alternatives available online, but I truly believe that when it comes to creating content, nothing beats WordPress and its revolutionary post type system. The introduction of the block editor has also improved the experience of creating content with …
YouTube refers to any advertisements during a video as a “Mid-Roll Ad Break”. On 27 July 2020, YouTube introduced some changes to mid-roll ad breaks that change the number of advertisements that are shown during YouTube videos. Since most of my videos are longer than eight minutes, these changes effect …
Brave markets its browser as improving speed, security and privacy. Their browser incorporates ad-blocking functionality to prevent disable advertisements and trackers. Whilst I do support security and privacy, I cannot recommend anyone to use their browser. Unfair to Website Owners The marketing team from Brave approached me a year or …
My technology YouTube channel has been the channel I have devoted most of my attention to over the last several years, however I also have two other channels. My gaming channel is brand new, so it will be a while before anything comes of it, however my other YouTube channel …
I first launched KevinMuldoon.com in 2002. At that point, I had been working online for a few years. Buying my name ensured that I held the domain name for my name and brand, however for the first few years I just used it as a CV type website which advised …
Digital marketplaces have made it simple for anyone to create stylish content and professional looking promotional material. I have been buying digital content such as logos, themes, backgrounds, and website designs, since I started working online in 2000. In most digital stores, what you see is what you get. Therefore, …
Where does the time go? OK. I sound like an old man starting an article with a statement like that, but it’s the best way to summarise what I’m thinking. We’re approaching mid October already and I am struggling to work out where the time went. It has admittedly been …
When I first started blogging daily in the mid 2000s, comments were everything. They were a big indicator of a blog’s success and, from my point of view, it was always rewarding to hear from the people who read my articles. Back then, bloggers dictated the discussion point, but readers …