Blog

Tips this week include:
• The Gutenberg Blocks I’ve been checking into
• A new DIY SEO Booster Program launching soon
• An update on my joyful progress with Heartwood Art
• A reminder to delete WP-Optimize
• What’s up with Google indexing podcast feeds now
• Why you should mix in synonyms and related keywords with your focus keyword
• An update on the disk overage issue caused by Pretty Links
• Major issues at A2 Hosting
• Updates to the GTMetrix site performance checker
• How to test your site speed accurately

Tips this week include:
• Update on new Cloudflare speed tests
• The Gutenberg Ninja course is closing on Teachable and a big discount code for extended time on the new home at the BlogAid Learning Center
• Why I was so relieved to hear that NameHero hosting is sticking with cPanel
• What’s up with SiteGround’s new control panel
• Why Squoosh has become my image optimization tool of choice
• My take on the latest update from Mediavine on their new Trellis theme framework
• Why I’m concerned about Genesis adding features as plugins for their theme framework
• Why I won’t be using WP-Optimize to clean databases anymore, and my new recommendation
• The new Blocks Admin Tab I’m so excited about coming to WordPress
• How an Experimental Blocks Area plugin could radically change the future of theme design

Tips this week include:
• It’s my birthday – come celebrate with me tonight
• A new DIY SEO challenge coming soon
• All the great news about my hobby to money-making site journey
• What’s up with the Ultimate Nofollow plugin being pulled from the WP plugin repository
• And same with the Duplicate Page plugin being pulled too
• Why you need to check your PHP version before the end of the year
• Graphs showing the extreme increases in site security threats since 2018
• Why you need to check your site security after a theme redesign

Tips this week include:
• The Super Summer Sales Event only has a few days left to get big discounts
• What I did over the July 4th weekend that got me unstuck and moving forward again
• A new Google integration that may show up in our favorite SEO plugin
• An op-ed on the death of search traffic from Google and what to focus on instead
• Another article and why search traffic may not be dead after all
• What you need to know about the Chrome Ad Filter going global today
• Why I signed up for a new Video Marketing Summit in August that is on sale through today
• A follow up on the massive cPanel price increase and what it means for our hosting
• More hosting partnerships are in the works and the trend this is setting
• Why I’m so silly happy at NameHero hosting these days and the special things they and other plugin devs do to help us all have better sites
• An update on the rare, but massive Cloudflare outage last week and what I’m looking for in the changes

Tips this week include:
• Super Summer Sales Event is underway
• Why you need to get your site services request in now!
• What’s in the new tutorials for DIY SEO, Gutenberg, and Webmaster Training for Designers
• The ranking factors we’re discussing in our live chat today in the DIY SEO group
• What email marketing platform is best to use
• Why some of you need to jump on voice activated search right now
• Nine questions that will give you tons of social media and blog post ideas

Tips this week include:
• Webmaster Training for Designers is still on sale
• New extensions on the Gutenberg Ninja course are now available to all
• New discount codes for existing BlogAid clients and members are now available
• A new affiliate program is coming to the BlogAid Learning Center
• You better get in now for site services, my calendar is filling up for July
• More info on XML sitemaps coming to the WordPress core
• Why you don’t want to use Google AMP to speed up your site
• We’re saying bye bye to the preferred domain setting in Search Console
• What Matt Mullenweg said in his keynote at WordCamp Europe
• How Genesis 3.0 broke a few sites
• 3 tips for making your site maintenance chores better and easier
• Tips for using online video in business
• Huge news about WP Engine’s acquisition of Flywheel hosting
• 3 ways to share links on Instagram and what I’m including on the Gute course for it