For several years, I've been embedding Google Adsense on my websites to earn revenue. Part of the process is when I'm adding ads to a new site that I've just launched, I would need to add that site under settings for my Google Adsense account and wait for a review.

My Steps

1. Go to your Google Adsense account and on the left side, select "Sites." 
2. Go ahead and add a site here. Embed your code with your publisher ID in the head section of your website.
3. Then, request Google Adsense to review it. 
4. You ...

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On May 9th, 2021, I added a sitemap.txt file to one of my React apps so that it can get properly indexed in the search engine and I can start seeing stats on Google's search console. I am current hosting this app on Godaddy's shared hosting. 

Today, a couple of weeks later, I noticed that I am not showing hits on certain pages; just on the homepage. So, I went on my app and utilized real time tracking and I realized Google Analytics doesn't pick it up even in real-time. I figured this may have...
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I created an AWS account 3 months ago but hadn't deployed anything on any of their services until last evening! A few months ago, I was having trouble with AWS Elastic Beanstalk and decided to put it in the back burner to learn Angular and TypeScript. Now, I'm ready to dig into AWS again. Instead of using AWS Elastic Beanstalk this time, which was what I originally had in mind, I decided to try out AWS Amplify to see if deploying my React app this way would be easier. It definitely is.

Here we...
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Here are the steps that I took to deploy my React App today: 

1. First sign up for a free AWS account
2. Create a new app in AWS Beanstalk
3. Use git to bundle my source according to instructions here: $ git archive -v -o myapp.zip --format=zip HEAD
4. One thing that I noticed that AWS Beanstalk looks for to run the files in there server.js (back-end) and client folder (front-end). So I'll need to make some changes. Example: my server file should be named server.js and not "index.js" like I have now. Also, t...

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Through GoDaddy, I pay shared hosting for one of my React apps. It was quite easy. After I run a build, I just drag over some files and then it was done.

Steps to use Cpanel from Godaddy's Shared Hosting to host a React App

Here are the steps I took to complete the entire hosting process:

1. After you've logged into Godaddy with your account information, go to the cpanel File Manager part of Godaddy for your hosting account. Go to 'settings' to check the box next to "Show Hidden Files" or you won't...

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