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Yoast continues to expand his excellent SEO plugin. See this quick MaAnna Minute video tour of all the enhancements, including:
new name
integration with Google Search Console
tagline warning
less admin clutter
expanded social section
better page analysis tool
With hack attacks on the rise, a secure site is a top priority these days. But it doesn’t have to be hard or cost a lot. Here are 8 tips for a more secure site. Many of them you can do this minute.
Craft blogger and entrepreneur, Jill Flory of Sew a Fine Seam joins the podcast to share her site audit experience and what it takes to run a successful site in her niche. Jill has a diversified income stream, including her own products as well as ad revenue. She shares the positive results she’s seen on her site by increasing security, performance, and SEO.
Showing a date can help or hurt your click-through rate in search. Same with showing it on the actual post. Generic advice abounds about whether or not you should include a date, what Google indexes, and how the Google freshness algorithm factors into the mix. This post will help you cut through that noise and come to a conclusion that works for your site and audience. Plus, tips on how to change whether you show dates or not.
Check your site to see how to set up the new Facebook authorship feature where they will show your link in the byline of posts you share there. Quick MaAnna Minute video tip.
A robots.txt file is full of directives for all the bots that need to crawl your site. And I’m going to show you
the nasty things that can happen to your site if you don’t have a good one, what a good one looks like, and how to add one to your site.
Adding a featured image to an RSS email seems like a simple thing to do, but it isn’t. In fact, WordPress does not natively support the proper tags to make it happen. Even if it did, MailChimp only supports it if you show the full content. I researched and tested until I finally found a super plugin and the right settings to make it all work. And I’m happy to share my findings so you can do it too in a video and written tutorial.
There is one very popular plugin that I see site owners fail to configure properly way too often. And it’s severely hurting a critical aspect of their site that affects its reach. And I bet you’re using that plugin too.
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