Blog

• Content Revamp How-To workshop is this week
• Why evergreen content is king on YouTube
• New tutorials for the Video SEO Booster course
• Our first ever masterminds are scheduled for BB Hub members
• What’s going on with Ezoic?
• Monetization alternatives to ads
• Mediavine ad speed settings
• How Astra continues to be tone deaf
• Phase 1 of Google’s Page Experience with Core Web Vitals is out
• Why what you see in Search Console is lying to you
• How to get real speed help
• Whether or not you want to shoot for a position zero feature in Google Search or not
• The best AI content generation tools and why I suggest you check them out
• Is AI generated content your friend or foe?

Tips this week include:
• How to make a content revamp plan workshop is this Thursday
• Security updates sent to all BB Hub members
• The theme tests are well underway, and what I’ve found so far
• The Video SEO Booster course is close to launch, and the new tutorials I just added
• Clarification on Inodes and where to see that total for your site
• Why I’m considering a switch to Interworx instead of using cPanel
• Why I’m not crazy about WP supporting WebP images in 5.8
• Why you may want to skip your image program’s optimization
• New section on Trend Observations
• Will Artificial Intelligence power our sites?
• Why personal touches on your content will mean more to your followers

Tips this week include:
• Content Audit Workshop this week for the DIY SEO course
• Why I’m doing more video SEO testing for how Google handles video schema markup
• The results of my new speed tweak testing
• Why the internet burning is throwing off your speed testing
• New and helpful results in Google PageSpeed Insights
• Why I use a variety of data and testers for site audits
• New Astra theme and UAG plugin beta testing
• Are you sure you can fully restore your site?
• Why the number of Inodes you have is more important than traffic numbers when choosing a new host
• New standards are here for all block-based themes
• What breaks we are expecting with WP 5.8, and why it’s okay

• Theme case study is underway
• New speed tweaks I found for us
• Why the migration process is different for the new boutique hosting
• Why I’m looking outside the WP world for new opportunities for us
• What the only thing is that you really own in your online business
• A look at 40 WP milestones as it turns 18 years old
• Cool duotone image filters coming to Gutenberg
• Genesis discusses what making their framework free will look like
• The future of plugins
• 2 more big CMS block Google’s FLoC and what it means for WP and folks who run ads

Tips this week include:
• Why not to panic when goofy stuff happens with your site
• Why the sky won’t fall if you don’t get a post out on time
• How hosts are shooting you and themselves in the foot
• Why we are moving to boutique hosting
• Special invitations are coming to site audit clients soon
• 3 new and/or updated tutorials for webmasters
• Formal theme testing is underway
• My new summer office hours
• What’s up with the multiple plugin issues we’ve seen over the last 2 weeks
• Our Content SEO series of Workshops start this week in the DIY SEO course
• Why Google had to partner with Shopify
• Discover why videos are hot and why product videos are even hotter
• Video SEO Booster course Phase 2 launch is coming soon
• Why webmasters need to start testing WP 5.8 today
• Why it’s worth living through this messy WP revolution
• 8 powerful online graphic creation tools for you to check out

Tips this week include:
• A salute to one of my favorite bloggers
• DIY SEO Special Content Formatting Workshop this Thursday
• Video SEO Booster course beta testing is nearly complete
• New boutique hosting clients are moving into their new home
• Why you need paid migration help these days
• Reminder to site audit clients to get in the BB Hub
• WP 5.7.2 security release rolled out
• Why I’m so interested in Liquid Web’s purchase of GiveWP
• Why Genesis had to make their framework free
• Where we are with all theme revamps
• Why Block Patterns are the new page templates of the future
• Where to learn how to make your own landing pages
• Whether or not you need a theme designer now
• Why you should just say no to accessibility trickery
• Why designers need a legal statement about accessibilities compliance
• Whether or not you should have plugin auto updates on or not
• Recent issues with the Cloudflare plugin losing connectivity
• Clarifying the confusion about what the Cloudflare plugin does and doesn’t do
• How the new PHP Version Manager is breaking sites
• More info on the White Screen of Death when editing posts some folks are getting
• Why not to contact your host first for site fixes
• Confirmation of massive brute force attacks rolling globally
• Why to stop doing speed tests yourself
• Why I’m looking into more ways to block bad bots via Cloudflare
• Why I’m overjoyed with the release of the new schema markup validator
• The long-term catch in YouTube’s announcement to pay creators for making Shorts

Tips this week include:
• Content Silo live workshop this week
• Video SEO Booster course is in live beta
• How-To blocks and card tutorials are underway
• What I’ll be checking in the upcoming theme testing case study besides speed
• Why not to jump on a theme redesign for speed and Core Web Vitals fixes
• Why CLS issues are super hard to find sometimes, and the new methods I’m using
• First site owners are moving into the new boutique hosting
• A fix for buttons losing alignment since the WP 5.7 update
• CC Search is relaunching as OpenVerse by WP with Creative Commons images
• New CloudLinux PHP manager is goofing up sites, and the fixes
• How First Contentful Paint is handled by different browsers
• Google only cares about viewership on Chrome
• Yoast SEO plugin had a minor bug
• How to easily roll plugins updates back to the previous version
• Why we may need to add the Classic Widget plugin after WP 5.8 comes out
• Where to get step-by-step WP update instructions for major releases