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Tips this week include:
• Why you need to get your site audit request in right away
• Why my contact form got knocked stupid for a few days
• Clarifying more advanced settings at Cloudflare for increased security and speed
• What’s in the newest Webmaster tutorials
• Update to the WP Fastest Cache tutorial
• The next DIY SEO Workshop on Categories and Tags
• Why you need to hold off on using AMP
• Whether it’s safe to update to Genesis 2.6
• Whether it’s safe to update the Yoast SEO plugin

Tips this week include:
• Caching and Cloudflare
• New WebPage Test tutorials
• Mobile Speed Test tutorials
• Blog Post SEO Workshop this week
• What’s next for Rand Fishkin since he left Moz
• Why I’m excited about Google’s new Multi-Intent Featured Snippet test
• Whether you should be worried about Chrome filtering ads now
• Two-Factor authentication coming to WordPress without a plugin
• The huge DDoS attack last week that has all server farms quaking in their shoes and how to protect your site
• What’s in the new Gutenberg Plugin Compatibility Chart
• A super tutorial for styling themes for Gutenberg
• A great place to get free images for your blog and more
• A fun way to put motion into your still images

Tips this week include:
• Deep dive into browser caching and HTTPS
• Live Webmaster Level 6 chat today
• How to get the bloat out of your site for better speed
• Why we may be seeing updates to our favorite caching plugins
• Why we’re doing a bonus workshop on images for the DIY SEO course and the full schedule for March on SEO for blog posts is up
• Big changes for the Yoast SEO plugin coming in version 7.0
• Whether or not 404s blow your Googlebot crawl budget
• Why you must keep your plugins updated and the big plugins with current security issues
• What’s in the new premium version of WP-Optimize
• Why WordPress plans to add core support for GDPR compliance
• The new Genesis 2.6 Beta is ready for testing
• Why more plugins are adding a Lazy Load feature for images
• Why more online services are adding 2-step authentication by default and what that means for webmasters and site managers
• Why you don’t want to pay for the new SiteGround backup services

Tips this week include:
• The speed tests are complete
• Reminder: the next DIY SEO live workshop is this Thursday
• A reminder to manually update to WordPress 4.9.4
• The best order to do your site updates and why
• WordPress.com has a new President and what that means for Automattic’s future
• Why you don’t need to worry about Gutenberg
• What’s in the 2018 hosting benchmark’s just released
• How the huge drop in the Google crawl budget will affect you
• Predictions from Cloudflare about what’s in store for sites in 2018
• Why you must get a Web Application Firewall now

Tips this week are all about the 4 super important things on our radar right now, and they are:
• HTTPS
• Site speed
• SEO
• Making more money

Tips this week include:
• What I’m finding in my caching and speed tests
• Why where you host matters so much
• Are you chasing scores or speed?
• Why Google PageSpeed Insights is a worthless tester
• A super easy tool to list out all of your blog posts in a spreadsheet
• What’s in the recent WordPress 4.9.3 release
• UpdraftPlus acquires a new site manager plugin
• LiquidWeb purchases iThemes
• Major changes in Contact Form 7 and why I may not be recommending it much longer
• A super JotForm tutorial
• Why ranking in Google is all about user intent now
• A new image lazy load feature coming to Chrome
• What’s at the very top of the latest Google Webmaster Report
• What the new SEO audit extension in Chrome can and can’t do