CollectiveRay selected for a Premier Web Designer Award

CollectiveRay selected for a Premier Web Designer Award

CollectiveRay has been featured in several prestigious web design publications, including SitePoint, CSS-Tricks, WPMUDEV, WebDesignerDepot, WebDesignLedger to name only a few, but the list keeps on growing. Our most recent award has been the selection of our site and services for a 2020 Premier WordPress Web Designer Award by BeAligned. As a company that has…

What is Technical SEO? 11 Best Practices

What is Technical SEO? 11 Best Practices

Technical SEO is the process of optimizing your website to help search engines like Google find, understand, and index your pages. Although modern search engines like Google are relatively good at discovering and understanding content, they’re far from perfect. Technical issues can easily prevent them from crawling, indexing, and showing web pages in the search results….

How to Succeed in Enterprise SEO

How to Succeed in Enterprise SEO

Enterprise SEO can be defined by the size of the company or website, the complexity of the technology or teams, or by global operations. The goal is to increase visibility for these companies in organic search results. How do you know if your company counts as an enterprise? I like to joke that you know it’s…

WooCommerce Membership: Full Guide + 7 Alternative Plugins

WooCommerce Membership: Full Guide + 7 Alternative Plugins

If you’re a WordPress user, WooCommerce needs no introduction. It is one of the most customizable eCommerce platforms on the market and runs a significant portion of commerce across the world online. But what if you want to use a WordPress Membership plugin? That’s where WooCommerce Membership comes into play!  Even if you don’t run…

How to Rank in ‘People Also Ask’ Boxes and If You Should

How to Rank in ‘People Also Ask’ Boxes and If You Should

People also ask (PAA) boxes have been becoming more prevalent over the past few years. In fact, according to Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer, 43% of search queries now show a PAA box: In this guide, we’ll talk about how you can rank in PAA boxes, whether you should even bother, and other ways they can help…

How To Add User To Sudoers On Ubuntu 20.04

How To Add User To Sudoers On Ubuntu 20.04

This tutorial focuses on adding sudoers rights to a user on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. When managing an Ubuntu 20.04 server, it is actually quite important to know how to add sudoers to it. The sudo command is a very popular command on Linux. It allows unauthorized users to perform commands as another user, by…

How To Delete File on Git

How To Delete File on Git

When working with Git, it is quite common for developers to add many files to their repository, just to realize that they want to delete them later on. Deleting files on Git is often a source of confusion : do I need to delete them from my repository or should I delete them from the…

How To Install and Enable SSH Server on Ubuntu 20.04

How To Install and Enable SSH Server on Ubuntu 20.04

This tutorial focuses on setting up and configuring a SSH server on a Ubuntu 20.04 desktop environment. As a system administrator, you are probably working with SSH on a regular basis. Short for Secure Shell, SSH is a network protocol used in order to operate remote logins and commands on machines over local or remote…

sendinblue Review – Email Marketing and Automation Platform

sendinblue Review – Email Marketing and Automation Platform

Email marketing is still in great health and is still a very powerful way to reach out to new prospects. Key to that is the efficient management of those emails and all the onerous tasks most smaller businesses and some medium-sized ones simply don’t have the time or energy to perform manually. All things Sendinblue…

vooPlayer Video Hosting Review: Is This Worth The Money?

vooPlayer Video Hosting Review: Is This Worth The Money?

  We all know the power of video for marketing, teaching, outreach, communication and entertainment. We also know that the default host is YouTube. But what about when YouTube isn’t enough? When you want more control over your content or want to do more with it? That’s when you turn to services like vooPlayer. Read…

How to Remove "Powered by Shopify" Message (10 Examples)

How to Remove "Powered by Shopify" Message (10 Examples)

Want to learn how to remove Powered by Shopify message from your online store? The message appears in the footer or bottom of your online shop. By default, all shops made with Shopify will display this message. It also appears on your password page or coming soon page with a slightly different variation: “This shop…

How To Install and Configure Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME

How To Install and Configure Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME

This tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to install Ubuntu 20.04 with a GNOME environment. As announced on the Ubuntu official website, Canonical has just released a brand new version of Ubuntu on the 23th of April 2020. Named Focal Fossa (or 20.04), this version of Ubuntu is a long term support version…

Arping Command on Linux Explained

Arping Command on Linux Explained

As a network administrator, you are probably already very familiar with the ARP protocol. ARP is commonly used by layer two devices in order to discover as well as communicating with each other easily. When you are dealing with a small office network, you might be tempted to ping hosts in order to verify that…

How To List Docker Images

How To List Docker Images

Docker images are a big part of the Docker ecosystem. Docker images are used to define instructions to be executed on your containers. On Docker images, you may choose to have a specific operating system, to install specific packages or to execute a set of predefined commands. However, if you create multiple environments or multiple…

How To Change Git Remote Origin

How To Change Git Remote Origin

As a developer, you are probably pushing your code to your remote origin every day. Git is a decentralized versioning system : even if you make changes locally, you have to push them to the central repository on a regular basis. However, in some cases, you might choose to migrate your Git repository or to…

How To Copy Directory on Linux

How To Copy Directory on Linux

Copying directories on Linux is a big part of every system administrator routine. If you have been working with Linux for quite some time, you know how important it is to keep your folders well structured. In some cases, you may need to copy some directories on your system in order revamp your main filesystem…

How To List Git Tags

How To List Git Tags

On Git, tags are used in order to define commits in your history that may be more important than others. When you are performing a merge commit, right before deploying, you might want to tag this commit. This way, if you choose to go back to the previous version, you will be able to find…