Business Owners

MyISAM tables in an InnoDB world

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Quick answer: WordPress database table errors — including overhead accumulation, collation mismatches, and table corruption — build up silently and slow your site before causing visible failures. Most site owners only discover them when something breaks. Almost every other WordPress problem announces itself. A broken plugin throws a white screen. A bad theme update mangles … Read more

404 Floods

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Quick answer: A 404 flood — hundreds or thousands of 404 errors generated in a short period — wastes your crawl budget, dilutes your site’s authority signals, and can cause search engines to de-prioritise your healthy pages. The most common causes are bot sweeps, deleted pages with inbound links, and broken redirects. Let’s start with … Read more