Stop Chasing Scores on Google PageSpeed Insights
See a live demo of why trying to get a good score on Google PageSpeed Insights is a waste of time. You’ll also see what really matters with page load time and how easy it is to speed up your site.
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Tips Tuesday – IP Firewalls, Caching Tests, Videos from Images
Tips this week include:
• New head-to-head caching tests underway
• Why your host type and traffic matter to vet the info you read about caching
• What’s new in our DIY SEO content audit side challenge
• The date for the next DIY SEO Workshop on global site and page SEO
• How to track outbound link clicks in Google Analytics
• Why you need to fully disable XML-RPC to prevent a DDoS attack
• Why I issued an update tutorial to Cloudflare’s IP Firewall settings
• Why designers must learn how to properly secure a site
• An insightful recap of the major Google announcements from 2017
• How to easily create marketing videos from still images
• 5 fun things you didn’t know you could do with FooGallery
• 6 reasons why you should be using SVG images
• Happy 15th birthday to WordPress -
How to Check or Change Your WordPress PHP Version
See how to easily check and change the PHP version on your host using cPanel.
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Tips Tuesday – SEO Interview, WP Rocket Tests, Voice Search
Tips this week include:
• Join me for a live interview with SEO consultant Brian Weiss this Wednesday
• DIY SEO Workshop on Rising Ranking Factors and live speed test tonight
• How SEO saved the day when a company had their marketing budget slashed
• WP Rocket Tests are complete and what’s next
• Why you need to vet what you read about speed
• Google’s new deadline for when speed will become a mobile ranking factor
• What is UX and why bother with it
• Study finds 80% of Voice Search comes from Answer Box Snippets and how you can get in on it
• When virtual reality will hit WordPress sites
• The importance of goal setting for bloggers -
wpDiscuz Plugin Settings and Features
wpDiscuz is THE most powerful and versatile comment reply notification plugin available.
It has a ton of settings and features. But, all that versatility can seem overwhelming to make the plugin work like you want it to, especially one that could be confusing for your commenters.
Discover the feature list and recommended settings I use, and why, in this tutorial.
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Tips Tuesday – SEO Interview, wpDiscuz Tutorial, Image Optimization Test
Tips this week include:
• Live interview with SEO consultant Brian Weiss
• Updates to the first DIY SEO Workshop and Bonus Session
• How to Test Image Optimization for Faster Page Load Speed
• wpDiscuz Tutorial releasing later this week
• WP Rocket Tests Underway
• Who needs to jump on the release of Gutenberg 2.0
• What Google confirming it uses your XML sitemap for
• Mastering the Changing Digital Marketing Landscape
• Google PageSpeed Insights Finally Adds Speed Scores and why it’s worthless
• An improved campaign creation workflow comes to MailChimp -
SEO 2018 from the Ground Up – Interview with SEO Consultant Brian Weiss
If you want your site to rank well on Google, it’s critically important that you lay the proper SEO foundation.
That starts with what’s known as Technical SEO for how Google crawls your site, and what it finds.
And then it goes all the way up to the hidden tags in your content that you and your readers never see, but Google certainly does.
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How to Test Image Optimization for Faster Page Load Speed
Proper image optimization is the biggest bang for the buck you can get for faster page load time.
And there is no plugin that can hold a candle to you fully optimizing an image prior to upload. In fact, most of those plugins don’t even work.In this video I’ll show you where to get a super tutorial for better image optimization and how to test that your process is working well.