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Tips this week include:
• A new livestreaming setup I’m using for Facebook
• New safer and updated settings to my Zoom meetings
• An update on client service work schedule
• All the new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials that have been released
• The correct date when our DIY SEO course workshops will resume
• Why I have to take a day off and ways I’m recharging my batteries
• Why we think WordPress unexpectedly updated when updating plugins
• Tips for how to do your updates
• Why you need to check and set your own site favicon since the WP 5.4 release
• Big changes to how Lighthouse and Google PageSpeed Insights calculates your score

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Speed Scores, Gutenberg Tutorials, Plugin Updates How-To

Tips this week include:
• WordPress 5.4 rolling out today
• Why you must see my post on what’s new in WP 5.4 so you won’t be thrown for a loop next time you go to the editor after you upgrade
• Why there will be an insane amount of updates to the Gutenberg Ninja course
• Why we’re taking a 3 week break instead of 2 from the DIY SEO live workshops
• The new crazy livestream video I did on a live shop build, and asking for advice from you about it
• A new post on why hotlink protection doesn’t actually stop scrapers from stealing images right off your site
• Why YouTube is streaming in standard definition by default now
• Why more folks are getting into video streaming now
• 2 new courses for Genesis design

Read More about Tips Tuesday – WordPress 5.4, Gutenberg, Livestreaming, Genesis Design

Tips this week include:
• WordPress 5.4 will be out in one week
• New Gutenberg Ninja tutorials in the works
• New DIY SEO workshops in the works
• The difference in caching and optimization plugins and the order to do things to speed up your site
• How and why to prepare your computer for a sharp rise in cyber attacks
• Why to prepare your connected devices to prevent hack attacks
• How to prepare your site for a sharp rise in DDoS attacks
• How to change your Zoom settings to block trolls from showing porn in your public meetings
• My take on how we’ve been doing for the past week
• How sites and traffic have been doing
• How the blogging industry as a whole has been doing
• What I see coming on the other side of this situation
• Why makers are on the rise
• The new opportunities that abound
• An invitation to dream a little dream of the new world order that’s coming and your place in it

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Prevent Hack and DDoS Attacks, How We’re Doing Since COVID-19 Distancing

Tips this week include:
• A new post on what ModSecurity is and why you don’t want to turn it off permanently even if your host tells you to
• A new post on how to add Google Analytics and other script code directly to your site
• A new post on how to fix ModSecurity related errors when you try to add that script code
• The change of date for Part 2 of the Image SEO live workshop
• The new SEO workshops on the way for keywords and ranking
• A status update on the new clients I’m currently onboarding for site service work
• An opportunity for a Blab-like chat for those who are working from home now
• A surprise, and last minute addition to WP 5.4
• Serious improvement to downloading Google Search Console reports

Read More about Tips Tuesday – ModSecurity, Add Google Analytics, Image SEO, GSC Reports

Tips this week include:
• The radical differences in what the managed part of managed hosting means at different hosts
• Spring 2020 site quick checks are underway
• How to check if your SSL certificate has a bug and needs to be reissued
• One more reason not to use the WebP format for images
• The amazing hero support I get at NameHero hosting
• An update on how I’m changing the summary reports for my caching plugin speed tests that will result in easy-to-read graphs for us
• WordPress 5.4 RC1 is out and what that means
• 100 new Block Templates have been released on Gutenberg Hub
• On op ed on how much longer page builders can remain competitive in the block era
• Another proof that Google is crawling and indexing PDFs and why to get them off your site

Read More about Tips Tuesday – WebP Images, Free Block Templates, Google Indexing PDFs, Managed Hosting

Tips this week include:
• New site spring cleaning quick checks that are coming for Site Audit Plus clients
• New Instagram chat for Site Audit Plus clients on Friday
• DIY SEO course Links Workshop on Thursday
• Is blogging for dollars really worth it? See what happened that changed my mind about this
• Issues with hard coding Google Analytics
• See the latest update in the WP Fastest Cache plugin
• When to republish old content
• Whether it’s safe or not to update to Genesis 3.3
• Why to start using next-gen image formats, and which one I don’t recommend using
• What’s in the WordPress 5.4 beta 3 that just released
• What’s coming to WordPress 5.5 this summer

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Site Audit Client Perks, SEO on Links, WP Fastest Cache, Genesis 3.3

Tips this week include:
• Site and page SEO workshop this week
• The speed test help falling into my lap
• Progress on whole site editing coming to Gutenberg
• The WordPress 5.4 Beta 2 has been released
• Why we’ll all be grateful for the new WP notification system in the works
• Progress on native support for XML sitemaps coming to WordPress

Read More about Tips Tuesday – WP XML Sitemaps, Page SEO Workshop, Gutenberg Site Editor

Tips this week include:
• An update on what’s happening with my speed testing
• We’ll be covering global SEO site guidelines in our next DIY SEO live workshop Thursday
• Why you may want to revamp your site layout
• An upcoming Instagram chat with my Site Audit Plus clients
• The secret deals happening that will make our domain name prices go up
• What’s in the WordPress 5.4 Beta release and what was just a wild rumor
• The new Gutenberg features coming in WordPress 5.4 that I’m excited about
• The temporary issues with updating the Google Analytics Dashboard for WP plugin and what they stripped out of the free version
• The issues some folks are having with adding Google Analytics code directly to their site
• Why you need to update the Ninja Forms plugin immediately
• What’s really going on with SiteGround moving sites over to Google Cloud
• The new cookie blocking I’ve seen in both Firefox and Chrome this week
• A new star rating review snippet report in Google Search Console that recipe sites will want to know about

Read More about Tips Tuesday – WP 5.4 Beta, Domain Price Increase, Cookie Blocking, Site SEO Guidelines