Podcast

Tips this week include:
• Content Audit Workshop this week for the DIY SEO course
• Why I’m doing more video SEO testing for how Google handles video schema markup
• The results of my new speed tweak testing
• Why the internet burning is throwing off your speed testing
• New and helpful results in Google PageSpeed Insights
• Why I use a variety of data and testers for site audits
• New Astra theme and UAG plugin beta testing
• Are you sure you can fully restore your site?
• Why the number of Inodes you have is more important than traffic numbers when choosing a new host
• New standards are here for all block-based themes
• What breaks we are expecting with WP 5.8, and why it’s okay

• Theme case study is underway
• New speed tweaks I found for us
• Why the migration process is different for the new boutique hosting
• Why I’m looking outside the WP world for new opportunities for us
• What the only thing is that you really own in your online business
• A look at 40 WP milestones as it turns 18 years old
• Cool duotone image filters coming to Gutenberg
• Genesis discusses what making their framework free will look like
• The future of plugins
• 2 more big CMS block Google’s FLoC and what it means for WP and folks who run ads

Tips this week include:
• Why not to panic when goofy stuff happens with your site
• Why the sky won’t fall if you don’t get a post out on time
• How hosts are shooting you and themselves in the foot
• Why we are moving to boutique hosting
• Special invitations are coming to site audit clients soon
• 3 new and/or updated tutorials for webmasters
• Formal theme testing is underway
• My new summer office hours
• What’s up with the multiple plugin issues we’ve seen over the last 2 weeks
• Our Content SEO series of Workshops start this week in the DIY SEO course
• Why Google had to partner with Shopify
• Discover why videos are hot and why product videos are even hotter
• Video SEO Booster course Phase 2 launch is coming soon
• Why webmasters need to start testing WP 5.8 today
• Why it’s worth living through this messy WP revolution
• 8 powerful online graphic creation tools for you to check out

Tips this week include:
• A salute to one of my favorite bloggers
• DIY SEO Special Content Formatting Workshop this Thursday
• Video SEO Booster course beta testing is nearly complete
• New boutique hosting clients are moving into their new home
• Why you need paid migration help these days
• Reminder to site audit clients to get in the BB Hub
• WP 5.7.2 security release rolled out
• Why I’m so interested in Liquid Web’s purchase of GiveWP
• Why Genesis had to make their framework free
• Where we are with all theme revamps
• Why Block Patterns are the new page templates of the future
• Where to learn how to make your own landing pages
• Whether or not you need a theme designer now
• Why you should just say no to accessibility trickery
• Why designers need a legal statement about accessibilities compliance
• Whether or not you should have plugin auto updates on or not
• Recent issues with the Cloudflare plugin losing connectivity
• Clarifying the confusion about what the Cloudflare plugin does and doesn’t do
• How the new PHP Version Manager is breaking sites
• More info on the White Screen of Death when editing posts some folks are getting
• Why not to contact your host first for site fixes
• Confirmation of massive brute force attacks rolling globally
• Why to stop doing speed tests yourself
• Why I’m looking into more ways to block bad bots via Cloudflare
• Why I’m overjoyed with the release of the new schema markup validator
• The long-term catch in YouTube’s announcement to pay creators for making Shorts

Tips this week include:
• Content Silo live workshop this week
• Video SEO Booster course is in live beta
• How-To blocks and card tutorials are underway
• What I’ll be checking in the upcoming theme testing case study besides speed
• Why not to jump on a theme redesign for speed and Core Web Vitals fixes
• Why CLS issues are super hard to find sometimes, and the new methods I’m using
• First site owners are moving into the new boutique hosting
• A fix for buttons losing alignment since the WP 5.7 update
• CC Search is relaunching as OpenVerse by WP with Creative Commons images
• New CloudLinux PHP manager is goofing up sites, and the fixes
• How First Contentful Paint is handled by different browsers
• Google only cares about viewership on Chrome
• Yoast SEO plugin had a minor bug
• How to easily roll plugins updates back to the previous version
• Why we may need to add the Classic Widget plugin after WP 5.8 comes out
• Where to get step-by-step WP update instructions for major releases

Tips this week include:
• The new Video SEO Booster course is live – by private invitation for now
• New boutique hosting is going live this week
• Site Audit Client Perks and TOS has been sent
• Why you may not want to go it alone for Core Web Vitals fixes
• How you may be fixing the wrong things for better speed
• Why not to throw out the Genesis baby with the bath water
• Update on theme testing
• The new Core Web Vitals fixes we’ve found
• The huge number of sites that are not optimized for Core Web Vitals yet
• Why Google needs to get the log out of its own eye for speed
• More info about Full Site Editing that’s coming in WP 5.8
• Mailchimp introduces new Stores and Appointments features
• What I found interesting in the April Genesis Shapers meeting notes for speed
• Why you should keep posting to social sites that never send you direct traffic

Tips this week include:
• DIY SEO Workshop spring break
• Updates on progress with the Video SEO course, Gutenberg Ninja, theme testing, and boutique hosting
• The CLS issues me and my webmaster designers are chasing
• Why not to cut corners on getting your Core Web Vitals issues fixed
• Why it may not be your host’s fault that your site is down
• The scam emails flying around for host disk quota overages
• My experiment with a new way to deter comment spam
• A super podcast from the head of Shopify, including how to effectively use video there
• The growing frustration with all those pesky notifications at the top of your WP admin pages
• Full Site Editing is a go for the upcoming WP 5.8 release
• An update on whether WP will block Google’s FLoC tracking or not

Tips this week include:
• How Google’s Product Review Update will impact affiliate marketers
• Why you can’t ignore your site for long stretches
• The final tests we’re doing for the Video SEO course
• Why I’m tripling up on the testing and where else you’ll see the new tutorials
• New TOS for site audit clients on the way
• What was in the WP 5.7.1 security release
• More bugs reported for Reusable Blocks
• Why we need a better comment system
• The 2 plugins Genesis is deprecating
• Google shuts down Feedburner RSS to Email service
• Why Google changed the name of Core Web Vitals to Page Experience
• What’s in the Evolving CLS metric Calculation
• A welcome delay in the rollout of Google Page Experience
• New Core Web Vitals options from Mediavine
• New metrics in WebPage Test for CLS
• Will WordPress block Google’s FLoC tracking