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It takes a while to find your blogging voice. But even if you have been blogging for a while, it can take even more time to find your production groove for the best layout on posts, images, videos, podcasts, and any other media you produce for your site.
Discover the hoops I’ve jumped through to find my groove on my woodworking site, and how it is radically different from BlogAid.
Tips this week include:
• How site audits pay for themselves, big time
• The best paid social share button plugins to use
• The big changes coming to the Webmaster Training program
• Why I’ll be focusing on the new design block suites for my upcoming Gutenberg course
• 2 new posts in the Hobby to Money-Making Site Series on how to create an editorial calendar and all about branding
• Whether or not you want to do basic tips posts on your site
• Why I’m seeking advice and tips about Amazon affiliate links
• Why you need to update Chrome immediately
• The conflicting replies SiteGround gave folks about rebuilding their resource meters
• A super scary hosting security issue that very likely affected you
• What’s up with a lack of, or delayed emails for comment notification from your site
• A check on how many plugins you have
Can folks immediately identify that a post came from you when they are browsing social media or watching your video?
See how I developed an instant hit with branding both me and my woodworking site.
See the results of my deep tests on the paid versions of Social Pug and Social Warfare for speed, page weight, features and overall performance.
Figuring out what blog posts to make to bring traffic to your site can be a bewildering task. See how I developed my editorial calendar for a whole year’s worth of posts that would bring targeted traffic and followers to my site fast.
Tips this week include:
• Update on the paid social share buttons case study and why I’m not releasing it yet
• The new Pinterest share case study has begun
• Why I’m researching new hosts
• An update and new posts for my hobby to money-making site
• Why I have to get theme performance testing done and what’s coming for the Webmaster Training
• Why it’s time to delete one of my long-standing recommended plugins
• What country is getting massive bad bots through and if these are probes for a DDoS attack
• Why SiteGround dropped showing IP addresses in AWStats
• Why you need to log out when you’re not using WordPress and the toll it takes on your site if you don’t
• A new site and property verification in Google Search Console
• Hard proof of why we all need to scream for SiteGround to give us our resource meters back
• What’s coming in the next two Genesis releases
• How to find your audience’s biggest pain points and why you should
All businesses require startup costs. A money-making blog is no different.
See why I was willing to invest so much into my success right up front, and why I’m 100% positive it will pay off big.
Tips this week include:
• The peek at the big win I’m celebrating this week
• New Hobby to Money Site series of posts
• An update on my paid social share button case study
• A HUGE thank you to the plugin case study sponsor that came through in a big way
• Whether it’s safe or not to update to WordPress 5.1
• What you need to check if you see a new warning in WP 5.1
• Whether it’s okay to update to Genesis 2.9
• What’s in the release schedule for WP 5.1.1 and when it will hit
• What WP vulnerability was patched after 6 years
• Much needed proposed updates for Dashicons that will make our sites faster and score better with Google
• An image SEO workshop this week
• What we can all learn about ADA compliance on our sites by watching someone use a screen reader
• A super tutorial for using XSplit VCam for green screen videos
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