Podcast

  • Tips Tuesday – SEO Ranking, Best Hosting, Astra 2.0, Pinterest Strategy

    Tips this week include:
    • The next 2 live sessions this week for the DIY SEO course on Technical SEO and rank tracking
    • What’s up with so many things breaking right now
    • Investing in your business for site success
    • How you might be doing more harm than good to improve your site speed
    • Why hosts are now contacting me for partnership opportunities
    • Why I’m celebrating pinning to Pinterest
    • What happened I when tried a new way of creating posts and videos
    • Where and why to use the sponsored tag on your links
    • What’s in the new Astra Themes 2.0 beta release
    • The huge leap Genesis is about to make toward full Gutenberg support
    • My take on a new bulk block converter plugin
    • A follow up on the Chrome 80 third party cookie tracking changes

  • Tips Tuesday – SEO Workshops, SiteGround PHP 7.3, Lazy Load in WP 5.4, GSC Removal Tool

    Tips this week include:
    • Plugins to get off your site that we dumped last year
    • Why I want you to invest in your own success and stop relying on me as the maid of your site
    • The DIY SEO live workshops start this week
    • Whether including lazy load in the upcoming WordPress 5.4 release is a good thing or not
    • If you should get busy converting old content to Gutenberg blocks before support for the Classic Editor drops in 2021
    • Why I’m sending you less emails, and why reading Tips Tuesday matters more than ever now
    • Google has released a new Removal Tool in Search Console and what’s in it
    • The Chrome 3rd party cookie tracking changes start this week
    • Why you don’t want SiteGround to update you to PHP 7.3 automatically
    • Help for moving to better hosting

  • Tips Tuesday – DIY SEO, Cookies in Chrome 80, XML Sitemap in WordPress

    Tips this week include:
    • The DIY SEO Quick Start Challenge has begun
    • More info about the cookie tracking fiasco coming on Feb 4 from Chrome 80
    • An updated tutorial on changing to PHP 7.3 at your host and why you must do this now
    • Whether organic traffic dropped after Google took away the 2nd post listing on page 1 if you are also in a Featured Snippet
    • The structured data Google dropped support for and if the fault is with the Yoast SEO plugin
    • A new Feature Plugin to natively add XML sitemap generation to WordPress
    • What big changes we may see when WordPress 5.4 comes out
    • A peek at how Gutenberg is becoming a full theme builder

  • Tips Tuesday – Death of Cookies, TLS 1.2 Warnings, New Bing Tutorials, Site Speed Tests

    Tips this week include:
    • Why we’re going back to our original time for the livestream
    • Interesting site speed case study I’m doing this week
    • Where the encore of the Gutenberg webinar will be shown
    • DIY SEO Quick Start begins this Thursday to prep for our live workshops
    • What’s new from the dev of Social Pug
    • Which speed tests I’m starting on this week
    • Why you need to go directly to your WP login page to avoid a redirect
    • Why you need to log out of your WP site
    • Why it’s a mistake to think that Google alone is pushing us for better internet security
    • The new unsecured warning Chrome will start showing this week
    • Why 3rd party cookies are going to die and what this means for those who run ads on their site

  • Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Webinar, Speed Tests, Themes, Mediavine Awards

    Tips this week include:
    • Why you need to get your site spring cleaning booked now
    • Free webinar this Thursday to see the power of Gutenberg
    • Why there will be a one week delay you won’t mind on starting the DIY SEO workshops
    • Why I’ll be making the data from my speed tests public this year
    • Who built all of the themes I’ll be using in those speed tests
    • Why the Toolset Blocks commitment to Gutenberg spells the death of page builders
    • What’s coming next to Gutenberg
    • Are you regularly checking your feedback data and why it’s critically important to do so
    • Is keyword research totally dead now?
    • Big congratulations to Mediavine on winning 2 Google Certified Publishing Partner Awards

  • Tips Tuesday – DDoS Attacks, Backup Check, SiteGround Migrations, Gutenberg Webinar

    Tips this week include:
    • Gutenberg Webinar is in the works
    • Live Pinterest chat with my site audit clients on Wednesday
    • The DIY SEO Jump Start Challenge begins soon ahead of our live workshops
    • SiteGround is doing internal migrations and what you’ll need to update
    • What to do if you want to move off SiteGround to better hosting
    • The DDoS attacks are ramping up and shutting sites down
    • How to check to ensure you have a full backup of your site
    • Upcoming release dates for all future WordPress major versions through 2021
    • The new Gutenberg features you won’t be seeing in my course for a while and why that’s a good thing

  • Tips Tuesday – Holiday Deals End Soon, SiteGround Migrations, Gutenberg Theme Builder

    Tips this week include:
    • Time’s running out fast on the BlogAid Holiday Deals – we’re down to the final days so get your goodies before Santa MaAnna packs her bag and they’re gone!
    • An invitation for you to give a little input on whether you’d listen the livestream from Tuesday evening as a podcast.
    • What’s in my tell-all post for the 2019 year in review for my hobby to money-making site
    • What’s in the 2019 year in review for BlogAid post and what’s coming for 2020
    • Why you’ll be receiving less emails from me
    • Why I was banned from a scrollsaw Facebook group
    • Why I got so mad in another Facebook group that I’m on a mission to do something about it
    • The surprise migrations happening at SiteGround with very little notice and what you need to change
    • The awesome perks my site audit clients get for free, like help with what’s happening at SiteGround
    • Why the WP devs are asking designers to rethink themes with Gutenberg
    • Why all designers need to follow the Make WordPress Design blog now
    • An update on progress with the new Block Directory and why I’m excited about it
    • And when I’ll be flipping more of my sites to Gutenberg

  • Tips Tuesday – Increased Spam, New Webmaster Tutorials, DIY SEO Jump Start

    Tips this week include:
    • Gutenberg webinar is coming soon
    • What new tutorials are up in the Webmaster Training for Designers course
    • When we will start the DIY SEO Jump Start checks and what new big thing is coming to the course
    • Time is running out on the BlogAid holiday deals, so get your goodies now
    • The continued uptick in spam that we’re experiencing and what it means for our site security
    • Why I was banned from a woodworking Facebook group that is a must read for all crafters and those who rely heavily on Pinterest for their traffic
    • What was in the WordPress 5.3.2 release
    • How to update to WordPress 5.3 if you haven’t yet
    • What’s up with the new checkboxes on reports in Google Search Console
    • What you should do if you get an Authenticated Origin Pull warning email from Cloudflare