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Simply blocking visitors to your site, or just displaying cookie banners based on the IP address seems like a good fix to get out of dealing with GDPR compliance.
But it won’t work, and you’re still liable.
Discover the glaring fallacy in these tactics and what to do instead to make your U.S. based site GDPR compliant.
Tips this week include:
• A new GDPR Plugins and Services post
• A couple of super quick and easy GDPR related tasks to do
• Celebrating two of my Scratched to Published clients launching their new sites soon
• An indicator of what’s to come with WordPress cleaning house on unused plugins
• How to easily make it through the major transition with plugins that we are in right now
• A super tutorial for designers on Gutenberg in Genesis
• What you need to know about Gutenberg as a site owner that will keep you calm
• 5 ways to encourage more comments on your blog posts that are easy to do
• Why you need to send your recipes to Google Assistant right away
Tips this week include:
• A whole series of GDPR posts and more on the way
• Why you need to jump on getting your email list GDPR compliant now
• A new, free ebook I’m working on and will have for you soon
• WordPress 4.9.6 is due out this week with new GDPR Tools
• How you can get up-to-the-minute news from me
• Why I’m trying to curb my excitement about my fave fix-it guy possibly returning
• Is the hoohaa finally over with the Social Warfare plugin and is it safe to update now?
• Which resource hog plugin I recently tested that will kill your page load speed
• Google makes meta descriptions in SERPs short again and what you should do about it
• Why Google Assistant taking center stage at the I/O conference is huge news for you
• What’s up with Yoast SEO adding caching to images
Is all of this GDPR compliant stuff making you crazy and stressed?
Discover how to get through it and keep your sanity intact and your overwhelm low.
This week’s tips are all about GDPR.
There are 6 steps you need to take, and I’m going to detail them out for you in this guide.
WordPress 4.9.6 includes 4 new Tools for GDPR compliance.
It helps you collect info needed for your Privacy Policy based on your theme and plugins too.
And, it provides a way to retrieve, edit, and export the data you collect.
Tips this week include:
• The new speed post series has launched
• Site audit workshops begin this week for Webmaster Training members
• Whether you should add special HowTo schema markup to your posts yet
• Why I’m so excited about Google expanding Featured Snippets with a drop-down
• What’s up with Google Analytics and GDPR compliance
• A new Cookiebot plugin for GDPR compliance I’m looking into
• Cloudflare adds super new protections to their WAF
• Why to get your email off your hosting and how it saved one of my clients
• Whether you should use a free Gmail account for your main site contact
• How to backup your Gmail inbox to another Gmail account, including GSuites
• How to prepare your content for extended reality
• What’s in the new version of GIMP for image creation and optimization
Images are the #1 cause of slow sites.
Speeding them up is not all about optimizing the images in your content either.
I’ll show you how to see ALL of the images loading on each of your posts.
You will be SHOCKED!
And, I’ll show you ways to rethink your images so you can reduce how many you load, plus how long they take.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
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| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |