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Tips Tuesday – SEO and Schema Markup Issues, iFrame Video on Edge, Holiday Sales Coming
Tips this week include:
• Free Gutenberg webinar coming in a few weeks
• How I’m splitting up the niche site metrics I’m watching
• Why you need to jump super fast on the holiday sales post coming soon
• What I found on my client sites during my recent video SEO research
• The SEO issue I found on BlogAid
• Why I may hire a schema markup expert from Team Yoast
• The schema checks and fixes coming to the DIY SEO course
• Why I have to check out new schema markup validators
• What the WordPress 5.6 Beta 4 signals to me
• Why I’m not crazy about the release of PHP 8.0 at SiteGround
• The very serious concerns I have about Microsoft Clarity
• Why Google is dropping the word Webmaster and changing its blog domain
• A fix for the Edge browser’s issue with lazy load on iFrames
• The speed challenge when using iFrames for video embed when you run ads -
Tips Tuesday – Video SEO, UpdraftPlus, WP Toolkit, Genesis Block Collections
Hello Happy Site Owners and Webmasters! Tips this week include: The deep dive I’m doing into extra video SEO Why I have to make time to do woodworking posts The price of success The caveats and rewards of mixing pleasure and business Why I don’t monetize my passions Finding your creative balance What’s up with…
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Partial UpdraftPlus Backup: How to Select Only Database or Specific Files
See how to select what gets included in a manual backup when using UpdraftPlus because sometimes you just need a partial backup.
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Tips Tuesday – Cloudflare API, Gutenberg Block Plugins, Investing in Your Success
Tips this week include:
• The scary updates I did over the Halloween weekend
• Why you need to focus only on what makes you money
• How are you investing in your online business?
• Does a try this, try that blog strategy work?
• What to check for with Cloudflare having a few API connection issues
• Why seeing trackbacks and pingbacks suddenly appear has me concerned
• What’s up with 2 WordPress security releases back to back
• WordPress 5.6 Beta 3 just rolled out
• A call to take the WP 2020 survey
• Why you need to put migrating from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks on your calendar now
• The difference in Atomic Blocks and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugins
• An official Block Patterns Directory is in the works
• And the Block Directory project gets a new team lead
• An update on an issue with the Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugin that got fixed
• Google’s ironic recommendation for your holiday sales pages
• Why HTTPS is table stakes in 2020
• Why HTTPS alone is not enough to please Google
• Do you even know what’s going on with your site? And why you need to know -
Does a Try This, Try That Blog Strategy Work?
Analytics feedback is a powerful way to determine what’s working and what’s not working with your content creation.
See how I chose what to publish on my woodworking blog and how analytics has helped me revamp my content calendar and blog focus. -
Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg, WP 5.6 Beta, Astra 2.6, Cloudflare Speed
Tips this week include:
• An update on switching BlogAid to Gutenberg
• Why I’m having to regroup on my end of year plans for BlogAid
• Great Gutenberg alternatives to republishing seasonal posts
• How Gutenberg makes it so easy to revamp your home page for the seasons
• How a consult can help you make a plan that makes you money faster
• What’s in the Astra 2.6.0 release and where to get more info
• What’s in the WP 5.6 beta release that I’m keeping an eye on
• How reading Tips Tuesday keeps you calm
• Why I’m delighted that block-based widgets will not be in WP 5.6
• Why the Gutenberg editor is powerful enough for now and we can wait for Phase 2
• Major changes to the Coming Soon plugin by Seedprod and what I’m using instead for maintenance mode
• How me and my webmasters help each other make money by saving time
• Why to hold off on installing the new Google Analytics code
• The exciting news of HTTP/3 with QUIC being in the Last Call phase
• What QUIC is and how it will speed up the whole internet
• The cutting edge speed tweaks you get on Cloudflare
• Why speed is about way more than adding a caching plugin -
Tips Tuesday – Site Services, SiteGround Issues, Yoast Keywords, More Bing Tools
Tips this week include:
All new Site Services pages are on BlogAid, and who helped me create them
A reminder of why I don’t offer on-demand fix-it services
Why I had to overhaul my new rebranding service
Why my Webmaster Training course members get hired more
The Cloudflare tutorials are updated in the Webmaster Training course
Why I had to pull the trigger and flip BlogAid to a Gutenberg hybrid setup
How village opinions are like gold for your business
Why you need to make a plugins list
The new Google Analytics 4 has launched and why you need to keep your current analytics running too
What you need to know about Yoast and SEMRush teaming up for free keyword research
Bing launches a totally rebuilt Site Explorer
Update on what we’re finding in Bing Webmaster Tools
Changes to the way SiteGround handles domain-related email setup
The confusing HTTPS settings at SiteGround
A list of the hosts I can’t work with for audits