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Extend Your Content Life Cycle – 2 Blab Shows

November 15, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

These are two must-see shows for all content marketers!
You work hard on your content and you want to get the most eyeballs on it that you can. It’s not enough to just create stellar content and then share it on social media the day it publishes.
Content has a life cycle that you can dramatically extend by refreshing it constantly and promoting it on a schedule. Plus, watching your analytics can give you important feedback about what content to focus on most.
To help you extend your content’s life cycle, join me and special guests +David Kutcher and +Mike Allton for two important Blabs that you can’t afford to miss.

WordPress Performance: Non-geek way to speed up your site – WPblab Ep. 9

November 11, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

Discover the 3 top things that slow down site performance that you can fix right away. And, discover the top 2 ways to increase performance that are both free. Plus, learn more about the top 2 performance testers I use and how to get your own site benchmarks.

Site Success Interview with Chelsea Day

November 10, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

Lifestyle blogger Chelsea Day shares her site audit experience and the benefits she reaped immediately afterward. We chat about the pitfalls of completely outsourcing site tech and how much cheaper it is to get educated up front first. Plus, Chelsea shares how she improved site performance and is making even more money running less ads. And, she shares the importance of optimizing images, and how quickly she can now get super SEO on all of the great content she creates.

This Week in Blab Nov 6 2015

November 6, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

Get up to speed on what’s happening with Blab this week, including updates and bugs.

Topics we covered include:

Home screen has live Blab – and that includes all kinds, even test zone Blabs
Blab team in Ireland
Tell a Little Bird now sends a gif, but can be saved as an MP4 when you alt click and do Save Video As from the Twitter stream. Has no sound. The gifs are not flattering, but they are eye-catching, and that is the point of promotion. So, try to see the silver lining in it for now.
Questions column on left no longer scrolls, but the pinned questions disappear from the column now.
Pinned questions don’t display in replays
Embedded replays now have info on the thumbnail instead of blank screen
Can no longer download the video while on Blab, from your profile. Alt clicking and doing Save As only allows you to save as an HTML webpage, not a video file.
Title – edit, hard to find field
After show, if you stay online, takes you to next related show, that stopped
Simple Live Press plugin updated – has buttons in text editor and shortcode, brings in latest scheduled or replay
Lower thirds
Show start times

WordPress Open Q&A – WPblab Ep. 8

November 4, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

Get the scoop on a change of direction for BlogAid.

We covered:

what’s coming in WordPress 4.4 and 4.5, plus the impact of Google AMP
the difference in standard WordPress themes and frameworks and child themes
why PDFs open in a new window
podcast themes
Blab embeds
and more!!!

Huge shout out and thank you to Ms. +Ileane Smith for her invaluable help as co-host today!!

Embedded Blab Page Load Speed Test – MaAnna Minute Video

October 30, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

See how to embed a scheduled Blab into a blog post or page. And I’ll show you the speed tests and other caveats of why you may or may not want to do this.

This Week in Blab Oct 30 2015 – Blab Embeds, Question Filter

October 30, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

Lots of Blab news to cover this week and we tested a lot of the out during the show. Also be sure to see the link for my Blab embed page load speed test.

You’ll find show notes below the Blab replay.

So You Want to Be a Webmaster – WPblab Ep. 7

October 28, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

Learn about the different levels of webmaster and what folks who do maintenance and set up websites need to know.

VAs and designers – learning new skills can help separate you from the pack and get you jobs where you make more money.

Site Owners – ensure that the person who takes care of your site knows these things. Because what they don’t know can hurt you. And, discover what the median price range for site maintenance really is.