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Ultimate Guide for Creating Links in WordPress
The way links should be created in WordPress has changed radically due to the prominence of mobile site surfing, new security threats, the release of Gutenberg, and failing link related plugins.
Discover how to properly create links in WordPress now, including manual creation, opening in a new tab, and affiliate links.
And see a real test of what happens to your links created with a nofollow plugin when it is deleted.
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Tips Tuesday – SEO Tips, GDPR, Bing Tools, WP 5.5, Affiliate Marketing, Unsplash Changes
Tips this week include:
• Updates to the DIY SEO course
• Why I’m bringing in webmasters to help with client site work
• The first release candidate for WP 5.5 is out and what that means for you and what I’m looking into
• What’s with the PHP upgrade notification you may be getting in your WP Dashboard
• The new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials in the works
• Why Google updated its GDPR policies
• My ongoing research into first and third party cookie tracking and why I spoke with a lawyer
• Why I like the new Bing URL inspection tool better than Google’s
• Whether or not you should optimize your content for questions
• How the relationship between Google Search and content creators has changed
• The future of affiliate marketing
• A beginner’s guide to writing better headlines
• A big change to Unsplash’s image use license agreement -
Tips Tuesday – Elementor Speed, Gutenberg Updates, Image Optimization, Bye to AMP
Tips this week include:
• Gutenberg vs Elementor: Which is Faster? – it was no contest!
• What’s being revamped in the Gutenberg Ninja course this week
• The new DIY SEO tutorials and bonus sessions coming
• Our Webmaster bonus training is underway and meeting live again this week
• Industry experts speak on the pros and cons of the Gutenberg editor
• Mozilla has a new VPN service and why you may want to get it
• Why you need to log out of WordPress
• Google’s Rich Results tester is out of beta and what we’ll be using instead
• Why Google’s AMP is going away and what criteria will replace it for getting into Top Stories
• Why not to use WebP images
• Why Squoosh is my favorite image optimizer
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Gutenberg vs Elementor: Which is Faster?
See my case study speed tests using an Astra theme and an Elementor template against recreating that same template using only Gutenberg.
You’ll see metrics of both pages with and without optimization.
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Tips Tuesday – Theme Speed, Astra Help, WP Fastest Cache, Atomic Blocks Changes
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?
See my deep case study results on three identical sites created with themes from Astra, Genesis, and Divi.
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Tips Tuesday – Astra Chat, XML Sitemaps, Grow.me, Cookie Tracking, Ad Revenue
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