Podcast

  • Tips Tuesday – Speed Scores, Gutenberg Tutorials, Plugin Updates How-To

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – WordPress 5.4, Gutenberg, Livestreaming, Genesis Design

    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

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

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – ModSecurity, Add Google Analytics, Image SEO, GSC Reports

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – WebP Images, Free Block Templates, Google Indexing PDFs, Managed Hosting

    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

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

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – WP XML Sitemaps, Page SEO Workshop, Gutenberg Site Editor

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – WP 5.4 Beta, Domain Price Increase, Cookie Blocking, Site SEO Guidelines

    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