Experimenting with Quick Video Promotion of Blog Posts
See my first attempt at making a short video to promote my latest woodworking blog post on Instagram and Facebook.
You’ll see what I learned and what I’ll do differently next time.
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Export Yoast Premium Redirects to the Redirection Plugin
See how easy it is to export redirects from the Yoast SEO premium plugin to the Redirection plugin.
This will keep you from losing all of your redirects should you elect to delete the Yoast SEO premium plugin.
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Tips Tuesday – Yoast SEO 11, Gutenberg, WP 5.2, HTTPS Redirects
Tips this week include:
• How and why to update to Yoast SEO 11 for better schema markup
• A Content Revamp How-To Workshop this week for the DIY SEO course
• A tutorial coming on how to export Yoast premium redirects to the Redirection plugin
• An update on the Gutenberg course progress, and it’s a big milestone!
• What I discovered about Yoast and Gutenberg
• Why I’m staying narrowly focused on video creation for my hobby to money-making site
• What’s in the re-introduction of the Genesis Authority Pro theme
• Why the release date for WordPress 5.2 was pushed back a week
• What’s up with cPanel offering forced HTTPS redirects -
Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Course, Genesis 2.10, Chrome Lazy Load
Tips this week include:
• An Update on the Gutenberg Course progress you’ll really like
• A request to tell me your special post/page creation needs for Gutenberg
• The new videos I made for Heartwood Art and what I’ve learned from that
• The ongoing tests for the Yoast SEO 11 update
• What’s coming in Genesis 2.10
• The Group Block I’m very excited about coming in Gutenberg Phase 2
• Whether Chrome’s new lazy load function will knock ads stupid
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Yoast SEO 11.0: Effect on Genesis, Recipe Plugins, Rich Pins, and More
See how the sweeping schema markup changes in Yoast SEO 11.0 directly impacts all themes, including Genesis, plus recipe plugins, Rich Pins, and Gutenberg.
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Are Your Expectations Out of Line with Your Path to Blogging Success?
Hearing how someone generated a six-figure income after only two years of blogging is enough to motivate folks into trying their hand at it.
And then the reality of just how much work is involved to accomplish that feat kicks in.
That’s the make or break point for most bloggers.
Discover how to manage your expectations so they don’t sabotage your shot at blogging success and how to stay the course for the long-haul.
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Tips Tuesday – SEO, Caching, Images, WP API, Gutenberg
Tips this week include:
• Upcoming DIY SEO Workshop series for doing a content revamp
• WordPress API connection issues
• Tutorial for how to whitelist your IP address in Cloudflare and why you need it
• How my move to a new host went and where my sites call home now
• My final SEO test for lazy loading images with 2 plugins
• How I achieved a dramatic speed increase on one of my sites
• What I’m working on now for the Gutenberg course
• New posts on my woodworking site and how my first storyboarded video went
• An update on the photo processing tool I’ll be using
• A tutorial on a new image compression tool I tried that’s fantastic
• Why I’m switching to a new image file format
• How my final speed tests are going on my wood site for WP Fastest Cache and WP Rocket
• What’s in the new Discover report in Google Search Console
• Why the Google de-indexing bug is being compared to a virus and how it may affect your Search Console reports
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WordPress REST API and Cloudflare WAF Issues
Update failed – not an error you want to see when creating content in WordPress.
API connection error when saving – again, not something you want to see.
Both are caused by an issue with the WordPress REST API sending false hack attempt flags to a WAF (Web Application Firewall) like the one in the Cloudflare Pro plan.
See what’s going on and tips for temporarily fixing the issue.