Blog

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

Tips this week include:
• Keyword SEO Part 1 Workshop this week
• WP Fastest Cache has a new integration method for Cloudflare
• 7 new GTMetrix tutorials for Webmasters
• Theme testing update
• Why not to blame Genesis for poor speed
• Why there is a mass exodus from SiteGround going on now
• New, better hosting update
• Live session to get to the bottom of caching issues like not seeing changes in Preview
• How to make it hard for scrapers to grab your content
• How to find and remove stolen content
• WordPress is dropping support for old Internet Explorer versions
• Which is the worst browser to use for working on your site – besides IE
• A primer on Full Site Editing from the man known as the spark of Gutenberg
• What Chrome 90 using HTTPS as the default means for your site
• Why there’s more to HTTPS than just getting that S at the end

Tips this week include:
• Image SEO Part 2 Workshop is this week
• 10 new WebPage Test Tutorials have been released
• New GTMetrix tutorials are underway
• An update on the Video SEO course and Google’s new video SEO guidelines
• When the new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials for WP 5.7 will hit
• Important updates for WP Fastest Cache and why I could just kiss the dev
• When you should manually purge your cache
• Update on the search for better hosting
• A round up of all the goofy stuff we’ve been experiencing online
• Are Reusable Blocks more stable for you since the WP 5.7 release
• 65 new Block Patterns released by Astra
• What’s up with that SharedBufferArray email from Google Search Console
• How to see if your HTTPS security header status meets Core Web Vital requirements