Sighs, we love Google but it can be frustrating at times: Mobile Usability > Text too small to read > Validation details The latest frustration: Google reports that 1031 pages on our website have failed its mobility test because the text is too small. The interesting aspect is 251 pages passed, but hold on, its […]
Technical
The technical topic answers many questions related to everyday issues.
Google: Content wider than screen FIXED
Our issue was Google continually reporting: Content wider than screen. Yes, the image was 700 pixels wide but the offending image was correctly configured in CSS to be mobile friendly: img { max-width: 100%; display: block; } But Google was having none of it. Then we noticed something.. the offending image had no borders and […]
CloudFlare: Unable to Login
I am both a fan of CloudFlare and a critic of CloudFlare protocols. Very very American and wayyyyyyyy over the top. I was locked out because of Two-Factor Authentication. Instead of simply saying email support@cloudflare.com with: list of domains (1 or more) in your account IP address(es) Hosting provider Datacentre Your name and email address […]
How to stop cpanel changing htaccess
cPanel in it’s wisdom are updating htaccess files changing the package type, in our experience “ea-php52” package to “ea-php56”. cpanel forums confirms the modification is part of a regular update to users code. In our case, all it did was break our website causing 500 server errors. Yes, we can access cpanel/file manager/public_html/.htaccess then change […]
Missing ads.txt Earnings At Risk – FIXED
How To Fix missing Ads.txt File In our case, Google was incorrectly reporting that websites were missing ads.txt file. For months, the “Earning at risk” message showed in Adsense for some of our busiest websites. The message would sometimes disappear for a website, only to re-appear. Each time we checked the ads.txt file was definitely […]