Webmasters tips

Why i think Genesis themes are bad

So, i have bought the Genesis framework and a Genesis child theme. I thought my template was ready to go including the right text layout…

I discovered that titles were too big and that i had to create a custom.css to make it ok. Then, i understood, i had to use custom.css to reduce header and nav bar height. Those changes are not about aesthetic, they are mandatory to get the text as close as…

How to remove the Missing required field “updated” error from a Genesis theme

Some of you use Genesis child themes that generate two kind of structured data errors in Google webmaster tools.

Error : Missing required field “updated”. Error : Missing required hCard “author”. Rather than adding those two class to all of your pages and posts, i suggest to remove all Hatom microformat class The two class to remove are entry-title and entry-content. To remove those class add the…

XML sitemap VS HTML sitemap benefits

Let’s get it straight. Xml sitemaps are useless for most of us. Today, XML sitemaps are only useful for big news websites like CNN.com

I do think XML sitemaps are a waste of time. For several reasons:

XML sitemaps don’t help to better rank

Googlebot does not need XML sitemaps to understand your website

If you use wordpress, that’s one another plugin to install.

They don’t add any value to your…

My website were slow at hostgator and i thought it was due to someone doing something bad on the Shared Web server. However i knew the reason was different. I knew it because sometimes ago i have found a forum describing the issue with IMAP servers from Hostgator setup in Ipad, Iphone. When you setup IMAP servers to reach your hostgator mailboxes, it creates on-going active processes in Hostgator. 

In my case, i had 13 active processes in my hostgator accounts. I thought it was safe because i stayed below the 25 processes limit from my hostgator account. What i did not know, was that every mortning (GMT+1) there were some automated tasks running on my account. For instance, there are processes involving cpanel, webalizer and awstats. I have been surprised that this morning i had also 13 active processes coming from those automated tasks. 

Logically, 13 processes + 13 processes = 26 processes. In this case, when it happened, i had an internal 500 error on each of my website pages. 

Here are the procedure i followed to fix this problem: 

I forward all my hostgator mailboxes to one hostgator mailbox

I switched from IMAP to POP as i did not need any IMAP account

I used multiple identities in mail application in my macintosh by entering my different emails. To do so: i go to mail app then go to preferences, click on account, then choose your mail account in the list, then in the field email addresses enter all the email addresses that you want to be seen at sender email addresses separated by a comma (ex: [email protected],[email protected],[email protected])