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A recipe plugin can do way more than give you a pretty layout or print option. It can dramatically help your SEO and get your recipe featured on Google, including Voice Search. That’s huge for foodie bloggers!!!!
See which recipe plugin fared the best in my tests for both the SEO schema markup Google now requires, and which plugins have the fastest page load time. Plus, see what each plugin natively outputs to Pinterest.
Tips this week include:
• How a full HTTPS conversion saves and makes you money
• How to embed a video using iFrame code for faster page loads
• A new member level coming for site audit clients
• Why I’m not surprised that Google Authorship isn’t dead after all
• Huge news for foodie bloggers with the launch of the new Google Smart Display
• An update on my recipe plugin tests and a clear winner is emerging
• A look at the new Transport Layer Security version that just released
• What the Let’s Encrypt milestone of being trusted by Microsoft means for you
• The big font change by Gutenberg that all designers will want to know about
• A report on what it’s like to use Gutenberg and how it could radically disrupt your content creation process
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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