When logging onto PayPal these days you are greeted by Alex Chriss the President AND CEO of
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SuperEZSytems Where the Sun Never Sleeps Content Empire
eCommerce and Social Commerce
Facebook Market Place
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The False Promises of Video Content for SEO
I’ve been an SEO since before Google bought Urchin.
My video SEO paradigm has always been “you’re wasting your time placing videos on your site without a sitemap”
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eBay Added Words to a Listing Then Suspended Me for Them
That’s the least of my problems.
Editor’s note – have you ever gone shopping, have someone place an item from a store into your backpack than call security to accuse you of shoplifting?
Of course not but that’s what eBay did to me.
The 72-hour suspension began Nov 23, 2021 – today is Dec 5, and my listings still have not been reinstated.
Is it any wonder why eBay seller and buyer counts are down?
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The Curious Migration of WindyCityParrot.com to Woocommerce Ep1
Update 6/1/2021 ~ When I asked developers quoting me $2500 and 2 weeks, how they would be doing this procedurally, they always deferred.
In that (9) migrations never took more than 6 hours 2, weeks was a red flag. Two competent developers I use, would’t touch it.
This non~coder is going it alone.
Anyone can migrate a WordPress site, including me – this ain’t your mother’s migration.
We think telling stories is more fun than asking for “migration quotes” while building our content creation library.
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How I Bulletproofed WordPress Video Hosting with SmugMug
File under “don’t build your house on rented land”.
First, it was YouTube.
12 years of videos gone in less than 60 seconds.
We are still replacing “dead” YouTube videos on our Zencart e-commerce site as we trip over them and as we migrate to a new site but
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Should I Be Worried About Cross-contamination of My WordPress Sites?
Regarding SiteGround AI security
Your Chat Transcript on 14/12/2019
Mitch Rezman: windycityparrot receiving following error intermittently Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Additionally, a 503 Service Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.4.29 (Unix) mod_hive/6.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 Server at www.windycityparrot.com Port 443
Mitch Rezman: This question is related to account: birdandparrot.info
Mitch Rezman: sure – spike in core usage over the past 30 minutes
Lachezar U.: it could be as the site is loading fine on my end now – url:https://prnt.sc/qalk2c
Mitch Rezman: yes – buts crashing every 5 – 10 minutes and then recovering – I’ve had the site for 17 years – something is wrong – there was no traffic spike but there was a spike in core usage over the past 30 minutes – what would cause that?
Lachezar U.: that is strange, I do not find obvious reason for the spike, so let me post a ticket to our advanced techs for further investigation
Mitch Rezman: that would be great – I am waiting for my developer to mitigate a bot attack by installing Recaptcha – this is a zencart store (trying to move it to woo – https://www.screencast.com/t/q3aBaOe9
Lachezar U.: the ticket is just posted now and will be updated with more details in 15-20 minutes
Ticket 3380418 for account birdandparrot.info
Posted: 13 Dec, 2019 18:47 CST Status: Resolved
Ticket Subject: Technical Issues
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