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Tips Tuesday – Holiday Sales, Video SEO research, Astra Schema Markup, Amazon S3 Email

November 24, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• BlogAid Holiday Sales are LIVE!
• Where the link to my Helpful Posts page is hiding
• A holiday fundraiser I may be setting up
• Why I’m once again modifying my office hours
• A surprising update on what my video SEO research revealed
• The schema markup the Astra theme uses
• Why case studies are so incredibly important
• WordPress 5.6 Release Candidates are out and what I’ll be testing
• What to look for when you migrate from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks
• What’s up with that email you got from Amazon S3
• Why the AS3 interface changes are making me crazy
• Big news about YouTube inserting ads into all videos
• Mediavine creates a mid-roll video ad placement and why you might not want to use it
• What I think about the Yoast Zapier integration

Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg, WP 5.6 Beta, Astra 2.6, Cloudflare Speed

October 27, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• An update on switching BlogAid to Gutenberg
• Why I’m having to regroup on my end of year plans for BlogAid
• Great Gutenberg alternatives to republishing seasonal posts
• How Gutenberg makes it so easy to revamp your home page for the seasons
• How a consult can help you make a plan that makes you money faster
• What’s in the Astra 2.6.0 release and where to get more info
• What’s in the WP 5.6 beta release that I’m keeping an eye on
• How reading Tips Tuesday keeps you calm
• Why I’m delighted that block-based widgets will not be in WP 5.6
• Why the Gutenberg editor is powerful enough for now and we can wait for Phase 2
• Major changes to the Coming Soon plugin by Seedprod and what I’m using instead for maintenance mode
• How me and my webmasters help each other make money by saving time
• Why to hold off on installing the new Google Analytics code
• The exciting news of HTTP/3 with QUIC being in the Last Call phase
• What QUIC is and how it will speed up the whole internet
• The cutting edge speed tweaks you get on Cloudflare
• Why speed is about way more than adding a caching plugin

Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Tutorials, Astra Resources, PHP 7.4, Client Interviews

September 15, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• The new edition of What Every Site Owner Should Know has been released
• Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are all updated and has a new Astra section now too
• DIY SEO course tutorial updates are in the works
• How you are overlooking important site notifications and what to do about it and why
• The exponential growth my clients are getting
• Scheduling of live client interviews is underway
• Why I have to draw a limit on “one quick question” emails
• Why I hope you always say thank you
• The new collaborations I’m excited about participating in this fall
• Yep, it’s finally time to upgrade to PHP 7.4
• A new custom PHP setup for some SiteGround clients
• The real reason WP Support wants to curb paid plugin support in the forums
• The full jQuery change plans for WordPress
• Why WordPress needs to go ahead and break some things
• How and why you need to move away from your freebie mindset and how much it is costing you not to

Tips Tuesday – New Gutenberg Tutorials, Astra and Genesis, Core Web Vitals

September 1, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• My number one word for 2020
• More new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials released
• A caution about Gutenberg blocks and theme compatibility
• Why I need to outsource even more
• What’s new and not so new with the release of Genesis Blocks
• Why I suggest not using Genesis Pro yet
• The difference in Astra and Genesis themes
• Google adds a new Activities at Home section to Search
• What’s in the new Schema Tab in Yoast SEO 14.8
• The SEO difference in putting your site into Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode
• What was behind the major internet outage this past weekend
• A checklist of what it means to have a high-quality site
• What you need to pay attention to now with Core Web Vitals becoming a ranking factor in 2021

Tips Tuesday – WP 5.5 Tour, Astra, Bing, Sponsored Links, Video SEO

August 11, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Why a Video SEO course is closer to on its way from me
• Kicking off BlogAid’s new Rebranding Services
• Why I’m checking into new member site and product platforms
• The Search Console tutorials are all updated in the DIY SEO course
• My Ultimate Guide for Creating Links in WordPress tutorial has been updated
• Why you need to use Sponsored AND Nofollow link attributes
• A video tour of what’s new in WordPress 5.5 and why we won’t be updating to it right away
• Astra got pulled from the WordPress theme repository and what it took to get them back in
• Bing has added image and video reporting
• My proof on why videos are fantastic for SEO
• And why I’m postponing the making of new Bing tutorials

Tips Tuesday – Theme Speed, Astra Help, WP Fastest Cache, Atomic Blocks Changes

July 21, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Replay is available on Get Started with Astra chat with Michelle Phillips
• More LIVE chats coming and who my guests will be
• The results are in on my head-to-head theme tests for Astra, Genesis, and Divi
• Gutenberg vs Elementor case study underway
• Webmaster bonus performance training has started
• What’s in the update to my WP Fastest Cache Settings tutorial
• Why you must get your site audit request in soon
• Why Cloudflare was down for a bit last week, and the reality of how fragile the internet is
• Confirmation that Yoast SEO already has the feature for turning off WP native XML sitemaps
• Astra Themes hits 1 million installs
• A synopsis of what was discussed in the July Genesis Shapers meeting and how Atomic Blocks will be changing soon

Astra, Genesis, Divi: Which Theme is Fastest?

July 19, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

See my deep case study results on three identical sites created with themes from Astra, Genesis, and Divi.
You’ll discover which theme is fastest on perceived speed as well as full load.

Tips Tuesday – Astra Chat, XML Sitemaps, Grow.me, Cookie Tracking, Ad Revenue

July 14, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Why you need to get your site service request in right now
• Getting started with Astra – live chat with Michelle Phillips on Wednesday
• The updates that are coming to the Gutenberg Ninja course
• Webmaster bonus training for Core Web Vitals starting this week
• My prediction came true about how Yoast will deal with native XML sitemaps coming in WP 5.5
• Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool is going away, and what to use instead
• Features in Mediavine’s new Grow.me tracking and sharing service
• What you need to know about Chrome blocking 3rd party cookie tracking
• Whether alternative tracking methods will work or not
• How the entire ad industry is being shook up over cookie tracking
• Why you need to stay informed from a wide variety of sources
• Why you need to think broader about the future of revenue generation from your site