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Embed a YouTube or Facebook Video as iFrame for Faster Page Load

Embedding a video on your site gives it extra visibility. But, it can also cause your page load time to slow down. Plus, it can look ugly and include suggestions to videos that are not yours, sending visitors off your site to your competitors.

In this tutorial, see how to combat all of these issues by selecting special embed options and using an iFrame, instead of the oEmbed code, for both YouTube and Facebook videos.

I’ll also show you neat tricks and tips for getting better SEO on your post, as well as more subscribers to YouTube and Facebook.

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Tips Tuesday – GoDaddy Breach, SiteGround Migrations, Gutenberg Trials

Tips this week include:
• New Site Audit Client Flash Challenges and why we’re doing them
• A GoDaddy data breach that may affect you, and an update on that report
• How to restore a plugin update to the previous version
• Mixed reactions to the Try Gutenberg invitation in WP 4.9.8
• My Gutenberg tutorial schedule
• What’s up with SiteGround no longer offering free cPanel migrations
• Results on that massive Google Algorithm update at the first of the month
• The settings I’m checking in Yoast SEO for category archive pages
• Recipe plugin tests almost finished

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GoDaddy Data Breach Puts the Internet and Your Site at Risk

GoDaddy misconfigured the privacy setting on one of their Amazon S3 buckets, allowing sensative data about their offerings and 31,000 server configurations to be leaked.

See what this means for your domain registrar account, and how this data could bring your site, and the internet, to its knees.

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How to Restore Plugins to a Previous Version with WP Rollback

Have you ever updated a plugin and wished you could return to the previous version?

Now you can!

I won’t do a site without the WP Rollback plugin. It has saved my bacon more than once.

In this quick tutorial I’ll show you how to safely update your plugins so you can easily roll them back, if you ever need to.

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What to do for Google Search Console Warning Indexed though blocked by robots.txt

Have you received an email from Google Search Console that says you have a “New Index coverage issue detected” lately?
If the warning or error states, “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” then here’s a little help with what’s going on and ways to fix it, and if it’s okay to just ignore it.

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Tips Tuesday – 4 New Courses, WP 4.9.8, Genesis 2.6.1, Google Algorithm Update

Tips this week include:
• A sneak peek at what’s coming from BlogAid for the rest of 2018 including 4 new courses
• Why hiring the help you need is a good idea
• What’s in WordPress 4.9.8 and the first thing you need to do after you update
• What’s in the latest Genesis update
• The huge Google Algorithm update that whacked some sites hard
• How to watermark your blog images, plus the pros and cons of it
• The message Facebook is really sending with the shutdown of their API for auto-posting
• A super post on the top reasons visitors leave your site and how to fix them

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What’s New in WordPress 4.9.8

A new Try Gutenberg callout, plus many updates to the new Privacy code, and 46 bug fixes are included in the latest WordPress release. See what affects you, and options for preparing for Gutenberg.

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Tips Tuesday – WP 4.9.8, Gutenberg, Hack Attacks, Schema Markup for News

Tips this week include:
• The new BlogAid theme is live!!
• A new Happy Clients page with success stories that just blew me away
• My new Gutenberg posts have launched, and more on the way
• WordPress 4.9.8 releases today and how to turn off the Try Gutenberg invitation
• The reports I’m seeing of the latest hacker probing attempts and how to protect your site
• What has me nervous about a new site cloning feature from UpdraftPlus
• What’s up with Google testing a new layout for images with titles
• Finally! Some corroboration about why you need to stop chasing green dots in Yoast
• New schema markup for speakable news posts
• 4 ways to write better blog posts immediately

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