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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.
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.
Tips this week include:
• Start of the DIY SEO Workshops today
• How the Meltdown and Spectre Hardware Attacks Affect WordPress
• 3 plugins to check for backdoor security threats
• Why I’m giving FooGallery a big pat on the back
• New Interface for Google Search Console
• How Mobile-First indexing works and will affect your SEO
• 28 places to download free blog images
• Why not to steal images off Google
• New Gutenberg development course and who should take it
• Genesis design trends for 2018 and a must-listen podcast for all designers
Tips this week include trends and predictions and what I believe will lead to site success for you in 2018.
Tips this week include:
• DIY SEO Jumpstart Challenge has begun
• Update on SSL certificates renewing when using Cloudflare
• Social Warfare featuring shorter Pinterest image
• New features in WP Rocket 2.11
• New features in Yoast SEO 6.0
• How long should your SEO meta description be for 2018 posts?
• New Google rich results and new testing tool
• New Google Snippets video series
• A complete guide to what direct traffic is in Google Analytics
• How to run a social media hashtag campaign
• What’s up with Chrome banning non-compliant ads starting in March
• What the cPanel Upgrade to TLS 1.2 means for your site speed and security
• What every Genesis developer/designer needs to know
• A new front end Gutenberg optimized theme to play with
Tips this week include:
• Two new comment reply notification plugin tutorials
• DIY SEO survey results livestream this week
• Webmaster tutorial updates for HTTPS
• How the privacy policy changes at WP.com and new GDPR regulations for the EU affect you
• Why there is a bright economic future for Gutenberg devs and designers
• What I think about the threat of WordPress Attrition over Gutenberg
• What’s up with WP Spamshield moving to a premium plugin
• Is the biggest DDoS brute force attack in history underway right now?
• What you need to know about the TLS upgrade deadline coming from Google
• Getting your site ready for Google’s Mobile First Indexing
• What everybody needs to know about PHP 7.2
• What you need to do before Storify shuts down this spring
Notifying your site visitors of replies to their comments on your posts is a super way to keep engagement high on your site.
The Lightweight Subscribe to Comments plugin is easy to configure and get started with comment subscriptions.
Discover the feature list and recommended settings I use in this quick tutorial.
Notifying your site visitors of replies to their comments on your posts is a super way to keep the conversation going.
The Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin is one of the best to help you make it easy for your visitors to subscribe to comments and help you manage comments on all of your posts.
Discover the feature list and recommended settings I use in this quick tutorial with screenshots.
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