Author: Trevor Ayers

Migrate and Host iTunes from Network Drive

Update: If one of your machines is using iTunes 12.0 or greater all machines will need to be using this as it will update your root files.

In this post I am going to cover the migration of your iTunes library to an external drive and then the process of hosting your iTunes library from this external drive. To work through this, you’ll need any machine running iTunes as well as a network storage device such as a NAS.

There are pros and cons to doing this:

Pros:

Uses your networked storage, which is likely bulk storage
Allows you to

August 30, 2014

AweSEM Advice / Blog

Why Does Google Hide Organic Keyword Referral Data?

The question as to why Google hides organic keyword referral data has been raised with frequency, and rightfully so. Not having transparency with click attribution source is a big set back for marketers and a disservice to businesses everywhere trying to understand the ebb and flow of organic referral traffic.

You will never get your keyword referral data back from Google. That’s not up for debate. What is up for debate, however, is why did Google hide this organic keyword referral data in the first place? For this, I can infuse my speculation.

Why Does Google Hide Organic Keyword Referral

August 24, 2014

Blog / Tech Tips / XBMC

Migrate XBMC Settings and Install to New Windows Machine

This is a very quick tutorial to migrate your XBMC install to a new machine with all of your settings intact. This is for any Windows machine.

Migrate XBMC Setting to New Windows Machine

The XBMC forums are great and cover this in full, but I know many struggle with it, so I wanted to provide the step-by-step for migrating your XBMC install.

Grab your userdata folder from within your program files. This will be the only files you need from within program files (XBMC will now be Kodi):
C:\Program Files(x86)\XBMC\userdata
C: being your drive.The rest of the files in

August 18, 2014

Handbrake - Rip Your Old DVDs to Your Computer

Blog / Tech Tips

Rip DVDs to Your Computer

Here’s a walk through on how to rip DVDs to your computer. Simple task here, but many don’t know how to do it or do it the wrong way. So here you go.

These instructions work good for me because I output as MP4 meaning I can use these in iTunes and send to the AppleTV for home media delight.

What you need:

A computer (duh)
A DVD (double-duh)
Handbrake

Steps:

1) Download Handbrake

2) Insert your DVD

3) Close default movie player

4) Open Handbrake

5) Find your movie’s file name in the window that opens with Handbrake. Open … Read More

November 24, 2013

AweSEM Advice / Blog / Tech Tips / Wordpress

Delete Comments from WordPress Site Pages

Here’s a simple way to delete comments from your WordPress Site’s pages while maintaining these on your posts. Keep this in mind as we’re editing your WordPress PAGES not your POSTS. Very handy.

Remove comments from WordPress posts.

1) Click “Appearance on the left side

2) Click “Editor” on the left side

3) Click “page.php” or “single.php” on the right (use command-f or control-f to find quickly)

4) Find and delete (or comment out): <?php comments_template(); ?>

5) Save and you’re done!

If you’d like to delete comments from your posts follow the steps above, but in step three select … Read More

November 22, 2013

AweSEM Advice / Blog

Verify Proper Analytics Code Placement

This post quickly details how to verify proper Analytics code placement.

Time would be wasted writing about the importance of Analytics. There are only a handful of website tracking tools and an even smaller number that offer this service for free. Why yes, most agencies who present their own “proprietery” reporting are simply white-labeling data from the free tool Google Analytics. I’m going to skip over what Google covers in the JS code installation section and jump to how you can verify that the code is placed across every page desired on your site.

How to verify proper Analytics

November 22, 2013

Blog / Tech Tips

How to Play N64 Games on a Mac

Any true gamer with a love for nastalgic activity has asked themselves how do I play N64 games on a Mac. Now, there are probably plenty of N64 emulators for Macs, but the below instructions lead to one that I’ve had great success with. Who doesn’t love Nintendo 64 games?

Steps to play N64 games on a Mac:

1) First you need an emulator player: Download

2) Install Sixty Force – I’d recommend adding this one to your doc! Check out the awesome icon:

3) Now you need an emulator: Again several sources here, but I recommend Emulator Zone… Read More

November 18, 2013

AweSEM Advice / Blog / SEO

Non WWW to WWW .htaccess Redirect

This task becomes more insignificant as search engines continue to evolve and become more sophisticated. Canonical tags are the largest step toward making this an unnecessary task, but as an SEO best practice it’s worth five minutes of your time to assist the proper indexation of your site.

Why do I need the non-www to www redirect?

With all the unique files and paths to these files on the Web it’s easy for a crawler to see the below as two separate files:

https://trevorayers.com
https://www.trevorayers.com

You want all authority your you build through your efforts to be accredited to one … Read More

November 16, 2013

AweSEM Advice / Blog / SEO

SEO Basics – Your Guide to Better On-Page Optimization

Admittedly, this post isn’t comprehensive of all aspects of on-page optimization, but I will expound on the SEO basics for you to execute a successful Internet marketing campaign. In Practicing brevity with this post I hope to arm my readers with the basic, foundational elements that will help search engines crawl your site and prove relevancy for your target keywords.

Improving your on-page optimization can improve your rankings in search engines and lead to an influx in qualified visits for your site.

SEO Basics