Blog

Tips this week include:
• Multiple tips and myth busting for DIY site owners
• Why I had to mute a few Facebook groups
• 11 new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are now live, including full page examples for home, landing, optins, and more
• WordPress 5.3.1 is out
• The difference in major and minor releases and which one auto updates
• Why you need to get on the Cloudflare Pro for better security
• Why security plugins don’t work and what they’re really doing to your hosting resources
• Why you must get a site audit checkup
• All of the site audit client perks you get for free, including where to find info I don’t release to the public
• Which is the best hosting, and why most replies to that question are useless
• The truth about why migrating to a new host is harder than it used to be
• Checking on the Yoast SEO Search Index Purge plugin and why I think it may not be working and what to do about it
• Why to stop using an incognito window to check ranking
• Why you need to check your WP Fastest Cache settings now
• Why I’m suggesting you embed Google Analytics code instead of using a plugin
• The bot hits that Google Analytics is not counting that are costing you money
• A check to see if you are using the WP Rollback plugin correctly
• Why I suggest doing a full purge after plugin updates, and how to do it
• What’s in the email you get from Amazon S3 for your backup file storage, and why not to freak out about it
• A way to check that your backup is getting everything you need to fully restore your site

Tips this week include:
• BlogAid courses are on sale for the holidays, as is hosting
• The super fun I’m having with creating snazzy Gutenberg page templates and when they’ll hit the course
• How to update to WordPress 5.3 and the special order you need to do things
• What you need to delete after updating to WordPress 5.3
• The progress reported on Gutenberg as a full theme builder
• My test results for the GetWid Gutenberg plugin
• A block-based theme proposal that is a must-read for all designers
• Why so many designers are dead wrong about what Gutenberg can’t do
• NameHero was just ranked the #1 host for 2020 in an independent case study
• Why you must get your own backups and what happened to someone who trusted her host with it
• Just how important the heading sizes you use can be for SEO – from a company that lost 10% of their revenue over it

Tips this week include:
• The BlogAid Holiday sale on courses and site audits is still on
• Where you can see a preview of the new Gutenberg landing page templates I’m building
• How Gutenberg Made it Easy to Monetize My Site
• A refresh on the DIY SEO course
• What’s up with Google getting super serious about speed and why you need to pay attention
• If you haven’t updated your PHP version to at least 7.2, you’ve now got a security risk on your site – and what to do about it
• Why you need to check your PHP version even if you did update it, especially if you’re on SiteGround
• What I’m seeing with bad bots pulsing and possibly priming for an attack
• The new potential ghost bot hitting Google Analytics
• Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 5.3 yet or not
• How to disable the big image threshold in WordPress 5.3
• A new post for webmasters with database table prefixes of popular WP plugins
• My take on the Google Site Kit plugin and whether you should use it
• What’s up with Google personalizing what you see in the Knowledge Graph and why it has all pro SEOs shaking in their shoes
• A super roundup of everything you need to know about the big Bert update
• And what prompted Yoast to hashtag #neveragain on Twitter

Tips this week include:
• BlogAid Holiday Deals are live!!!!
• 10 new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials that you will flip over
• The exciting thing coming next to the Gutenberg Ninja course
• Whether it’s safe or not to update to WordPress 5.3 yet
• My take on the changes Genesis is now discussing
• Where the data comes from in the new Google Search Console Speed Index
• What’s up with the new speed badges Chrome is adding and how it could radically impact your traffic
• How to test your site speed accurately

Tips this week include:
• What’s coming soon to the Gutenberg Ninja course
• Why you need to dig deep into settings if WordPress auto updated for you
• Whether it’s okay to update to WordPress 5.3 or not yet and why
• Whether it’s okay to update most plugins or not
• What’s in the Genesis 3.2 release and whether it’s okay to update or not
• You only have 14 days left to update your PHP version – see how