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Quick BlogAid Today video on:
My chat with Matt Mullenweb, co-founder of WordPress
New SEO and Webmaster tutorials and workshops underway
HTTPS Site Conversion request form
Today’s post on What Celebrity Homes and Secure Sites Have in Common
Folks who have money and fame take special measures to protect themselves from the prying public. Site owners need to do the same thing to protect themselves from bad bot attacks and hackers too. Let me explain how and why you need to treat your site like a celebrity’s home.
Right this minute, multiple organizations associated with your hosting, SSL, and HTTPS are rolling out changes that may affect your site’s stability, even if you haven’t converted to HTTPS yet. Following is a brief of what’s going on.
Tips this week include:
• The new BlogAid Pinterst page
• My upcoming chat with Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WP
• Why you need HTTPS even if you’re not selling anything on your site
• Update on site hacks via the REST API
• Google Search Console wording change on site update notifications
• Two of my fave plugins no longer supported or removed from the repository
• Follow up on the BlogVault hack
• How Google determines which version of your site to index
• What cPanel partnering with Comodo means for your site and hosting
• What HSTS is and why you have to have it
• Hosts using PHP7 by default now and what you need to watch out for
• And epic list of 134 free stock photo sites
• How and why you need to verify and authenticate your email address with MailChimp
• An in-depth tutorial to block referral spam in Google Analytics
• Why SEO is essential for your business
• A comparison review of StudioPress Sites and Rainmaker
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That’s a good question. Like you, I didn’t think it would make my site more secure or that I had any data worth encrypting. Here’s what changed my mind about it and why I converted my sites to HTTPS.
Tips this week include:
Celebrating this podcast listed in top ones to catch in 2017
HTTPS site conversion checklists updated
New code in .htaccess for Let’s Encrypt SSL Certification validation
DIY SEO member site updates
Webmaster bonus material updates
What’s coming in WordPress 4.7.3
Why and how to put a privacy policy on your site
Why to stop doing SEO like it’s 2012
Major Russian spam bot attack continues
Proof of why you have to turn XML-RPC fully off
A little secret about renewing VaultPress without JetPack
BlogVault’s security breach
How HTTPS is becoming the norm for web traffic
How HTTP/2 protocol removes the performance hit of HTTPS
Google partnering with CloudFlare for faster ads
Breaking news and hot site success tips for Feb 2, 2017 – BlogAid Today video
Tips this week include:
• Why BlogAid and the podcast may have interruptions soon
• Why to get on my HTTPS site conversion list now
• How to protect your site from user generated spam
• An important State of WordPress Industry webinar on Wednesday
• More details on the huge changes coming to WordPress this year
• StudioPress getting in on the managed hosting business
• 19 Facebook Marketing predictions
• A hiccup with UpDraftPlus that’s been fixed
• Sticky Bar Recommendations
• How to cloak affiliate links for SEO
• Pretty Links vs the Redirection plugin
• An even better way to make pretty shortlinks
• The 6 best FTP clients to use for designers and webmasters
• Celebrating perfect security header scores on HTTPS sites
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