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Foodie bloggers are receiving emails from Google Search Console that there are issues with their recipe schema markup.
Discover why this is happening, how to test your recipes, and what you need to do to resolve it.
Tips this week include:
• How much free site help from your host is costing you
• Live site audit and speed session for Webmaster Level 6 members
• How to renew your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on SiteGround if you use Cloudflare
• A new aggregate speed index from Google PageSpeed Insights
• Examples of the slimy SEO industry tricks that you’re competing with
• An update on the recipe plugin schema markup tests
• How to get more social shares on your blog posts and why this is good for SEO too
• How to jump on Google now letting us verify the Knowledge Graph it carries on us
• A site speed case study that shows you how to improve conversion rate
• The big news with a new online shopping sales tax law being passed
• 10 super unique blogging tips that will break you out of your rut and give you a fresh mindset
In early 2017, SiteGround made a change to how their SSL certificates are issued and renewed.
If you are using Cloudflare, it may not renew successfully the next time the auto renewal runs, which is every 90 days.
See how to easily issue a new SSL certificate.
You can even do this prior to the next renewal.
Tips this week include:
• What’s involved in moving to a new host
• Why doing an HTTPS switch the free way will come back to haunt you
• Updates to the Webmaster database and plugin tutorials
• Why a clean site on the back end just runs faster
• An upcoming Webmaster live session for site audits
• What you need to know about the new Gutenberg release schedule and what to do prior to it
• The possibility of live sessions for designers to get to know Gutenberg
• Why you need to take control of your WordPress updates and a tutorial to help you do it
• Which is best to use: relative or absolute links?
• A new talking browser coming from the FireFox folks and what this means to your SEO
• A cool new app for your images that you’ll want to give a spin
Tips this week include:
• New Cloudflare Tutorials
• A roundup of posts on speed and things you can do to make your site fast right now
• Why Voice Search will soon be the norm
• What mobile-first indexing is and how it works
• What I discovered about Yoast SEO premium redirects that I don’t like
• A monster list of GDPR plugins
• How Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub might affect future plugin development
Tips this week include:
• What we’re finding in site audits
• Update on resuming Webmaster speed tutorials and live sessions
• What’s coming down the pike for the DIY SEO course
• Alternatives for Social Warfare
• Why you may want to consider switching to NameCheap as your domain registrar
• Why you need to check your Yoast SEO settings for Media Attachments immediately
• Why that Yoast SEO bug was not solely responsible for a drop in rankings for some folks
• A super post on product photography that all craft/lifestyle/foodie bloggers will like
• The importance of photojournalism and entertaining on your blog
• A whole bunch of helpful image tips, including a way to test them for speed
• Why video is so important to bloggers
• Tips about embedding videos on your site
Tips this week include:
• New post on why EU country blocking won’t work for GDPR compliance
• New post on the raging debate about IP addresses and cookies that will impact all online biz
• Why I have to keep a GDPR meeting private with just my site audit clients and webmasters
• Why you need to get your request in now for site speed to beat Google’s July deadline
• Why you must take control over WordPress updates
• Why Yoast SEO tweaked the meta description length again
• Update on new structured data for recipes that could bring you tons more traffic
• A new extension for Chrome that you don’t want to tell anybody about
• Why encrypting your backups are a requirement now
• Update on how to detect cookies you have in use on your site
Think Google Analytics is the only thing tracking IPs on your site? Hardly!!!
It goes way deeper than you can imagine, and has opened a huge can of worms for anyone doing business online.
Discover how the move to become completely GDPR compliant could tank your biz.
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