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Tips this week include:
• The new Video SEO Booster course is live – by private invitation for now
• New boutique hosting is going live this week
• Site Audit Client Perks and TOS has been sent
• Why you may not want to go it alone for Core Web Vitals fixes
• How you may be fixing the wrong things for better speed
• Why not to throw out the Genesis baby with the bath water
• Update on theme testing
• The new Core Web Vitals fixes we’ve found
• The huge number of sites that are not optimized for Core Web Vitals yet
• Why Google needs to get the log out of its own eye for speed
• More info about Full Site Editing that’s coming in WP 5.8
• Mailchimp introduces new Stores and Appointments features
• What I found interesting in the April Genesis Shapers meeting notes for speed
• Why you should keep posting to social sites that never send you direct traffic

Tips this week include:
• DIY SEO Workshop spring break
• Updates on progress with the Video SEO course, Gutenberg Ninja, theme testing, and boutique hosting
• The CLS issues me and my webmaster designers are chasing
• Why not to cut corners on getting your Core Web Vitals issues fixed
• Why it may not be your host’s fault that your site is down
• The scam emails flying around for host disk quota overages
• My experiment with a new way to deter comment spam
• A super podcast from the head of Shopify, including how to effectively use video there
• The growing frustration with all those pesky notifications at the top of your WP admin pages
• Full Site Editing is a go for the upcoming WP 5.8 release
• An update on whether WP will block Google’s FLoC tracking or not

Tips this week include:
• How Google’s Product Review Update will impact affiliate marketers
• Why you can’t ignore your site for long stretches
• The final tests we’re doing for the Video SEO course
• Why I’m tripling up on the testing and where else you’ll see the new tutorials
• New TOS for site audit clients on the way
• What was in the WP 5.7.1 security release
• More bugs reported for Reusable Blocks
• Why we need a better comment system
• The 2 plugins Genesis is deprecating
• Google shuts down Feedburner RSS to Email service
• Why Google changed the name of Core Web Vitals to Page Experience
• What’s in the Evolving CLS metric Calculation
• A welcome delay in the rollout of Google Page Experience
• New Core Web Vitals options from Mediavine
• New metrics in WebPage Test for CLS
• Will WordPress block Google’s FLoC tracking

Tips this week include:
• Ranking Factors Part 1 Workshop on Thursday
• Video embed speed case study is complete, and I have the fastest way to do
• What I found when testing the Yoast Video SEO plugin’s new speed feature
• Video schema markup testing is complete
• Update on the new boutique hosting for us
• Why the order of my site services wait list may flip
• The new TOS for site audit client perks I’m drawing up, and why
• Why you must get your site checkup every year now
• More on the new mastermind groups coming this summer
• How WP Fastest Cache and Cloudflare work together
• What Google’s calculation change to Cumulative Layout Shift means for your site
• What’s in the email Cloudflare sent out about IP changes
• Why I’m excited about Cloudflare’s revamped Web Application Firewall
• Update on Cloudflare’s new Super Bot Fight Mode and why we won’t be using it
• Why I’m looking into blocking some bots manually
• The new Rate Limit function I’m looking into at Cloudflare
• Why I’m not happy about iThemes acquiring Kadence Themes
• Will Full Site Editing be rolling into WP 5.8?
• The big split in Gutenberg and Classic we have now and why a bigger split is on the way
• What to do if a theme revamp project is on your horizon
• Why you need to jump on the Gutenberg train right now

Tips this week include:
• Keyword Part 2 Workshop is this week
• New Gutenberg tutorials updated with nifty WP 5.7 features you’ll like
• New Gutenberg block suite plugins I’m looking into
• Update on the Video SEO course embed testing
• Why my site services wait list is filling up with folks leaving SiteGround
• How and why to move out of your newb mindset and into a money-making one
• More on how the cyber security situation is getting worse by the day
• hCaptcha vs reCAPTCHA vs CleanTalk vs Akismet for spam filtering
• What the new Super Bot Fight Mode at Cloudflare is all about
• How to permanently disable Full Screen editing mode in Gutenberg
• What will become of Unsplash now that Getty Images has acquired them
• How to optimize Ads on your site for CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)
• When, and when not to purge cache on your site