Cloudways Pricing: What I Actually Paid Migrating My Site, Mistakes Included A 30-day tracked experiment A reader messaged me asking one specific question: “what does Cloudways actually cost, after everything, not the homepage number.” I didn’t have a confident answer. I’d read the pricing page, I’d read other people’s reviews, and none of it matched…
Cloudways Review: What Actually Happens When Caching Isn’t Enough I went into this expecting to write a very different article. The plan was simple enough. Run the diagnostic on my own site, find a slow TTFB sitting underneath all the caching and image work I’d already done, then write the classic “I did everything else…
My TTFB Was Fine. My Site Was Still Slow. Here’s What PageSpeed Wasn’t Telling Me I want to start with the assumption I walked in with, the one that led me straight past render delay without realising it was there, because I think it’s the same assumption most people make, and it’s wrong in a…
Chasing 1,000 Monthly Visitors: What My Search Console Actually Showed Me | Griffith Pro Marketing By Dewi Griffith Chasing 1,000 Monthly Visitors: What My Search Console Actually Showed Me I did something a bit premature a few weeks ago. I applied to HubSpot’s affiliate program. I’d been checking Search Console most days by that point,…
My Site’s Real Core Web Vitals After WP Rocket (Mobile vs Desktop, No Cherry-Picking) Here are my real Core Web Vitals after installing WP Rocket, numbers I pulled directly from Google, not from a plugin dashboard. Search Console itself couldn’t tell me anything yet, not enough real visitor traffic for it to report field data,…
The WP Rocket Settings I Turned On (and the Ones I Left Alone, and Why) These are the exact WP Rocket settings I turned on, based on what actually happened when I tested it on my own site rather than what the settings page promises in theory. After I installed WP Rocket and got my…
The Mistake That Was Slowing Down My Own Site (And How I Fixed It) This is a WP Rocket case study I never planned on writing. It started three weeks in, when I couldn’t stop refreshing Google Search Console. I know how that sounds, but if you’ve ever launched a site from scratch, you understand…
Fixing Indexing Confidence Using URL Inspection in Google Search Console | Griffith Pro Marketing By Dewi Griffith Fixing Indexing Confidence Using URL Inspection in Google Search Console How Google’s URL Inspection Live Test actually works is something most site owners only look into once they’re already worried something’s broken. Somewhere in the middle of the…
Why Your Service Pages Don’t Rank on Google (And How to Fix Them) | Griffith Pro Marketing By Dewi Griffith Why Your Service Pages Don’t Rank on Google (And How to Fix Them) Your service pages are where customers should land. They’re where your main offers live. They should be your ranking powerhouses. But most…
Why Your Blog Posts Get No Traffic (And How to Fix It) | Griffith Pro Marketing By Dewi Griffith Why Your Blog Posts Get No Traffic (And How to Fix It) You’ve been blogging for six months. You’ve published fifteen posts. You’ve used an SEO plugin. You’ve optimised your keywords. You’ve linked internally. Your analytics…