Podcast

  • Tips Tuesday – Genesis 3.0, Affiliate Program, XML Sitemaps, Gutenberg Course Extensions

    Tips this week include:
    • Webmaster Training for Designers is still on sale
    • New extensions on the Gutenberg Ninja course are now available to all
    • New discount codes for existing BlogAid clients and members are now available
    • A new affiliate program is coming to the BlogAid Learning Center
    • You better get in now for site services, my calendar is filling up for July
    • More info on XML sitemaps coming to the WordPress core
    • Why you don’t want to use Google AMP to speed up your site
    • We’re saying bye bye to the preferred domain setting in Search Console
    • What Matt Mullenweg said in his keynote at WordCamp Europe
    • How Genesis 3.0 broke a few sites
    • 3 tips for making your site maintenance chores better and easier
    • Tips for using online video in business
    • Huge news about WP Engine’s acquisition of Flywheel hosting
    • 3 ways to share links on Instagram and what I’m including on the Gute course for it

  • Tips Tuesday – Designer Training, WP 5.2.2, Gutenberg Course Updates

    Tips this week include:
    • Huge sale to celebrate the grand re-opening of the Webmaster Training site
    • The new specialty block suite and theme I’m checking out for the Gutenberg course
    • A new tutorial in the Gute course for putting text links on image galleries
    • What I’m doing to speed up BlogAid ahead of my annual site audit
    • Why not to use the Shareaholic plugin
    • How I got unstuck with my hobby to money-making site and put it back on track
    • What’s in the WordPress 5.2.2 release that is rolling out today
    • Why XML Sitemaps coming to the WordPress core is such a big deal, and who’s involved in making it happen
    • What’s being served up in the new Gutenberg Snackbar

  • Tips Tuesday – SEO, Gute Course, Caching, Social Share, and Contact Form Plugins

    Tips this week include:
    • Special discount celebration on the Grand Re-Opening of the BlogAid Learning Center
    • Why I’m giving another free month of access on the Gutenberg Ninja course
    • Where to access the Gute course during this changeover
    • A HUGE thank you to my membership site revamp team
    • How things are going at my new host and why I’m so damned impressed with them
    • Why I switched away from Contact Form 7 to a more modern form plugin and how Formidable Forms met all of my criteria
    • The two big plugins bequeathed to WordPress recently
    • What’s in the Yoast SEO 11.3 update and why you may not want to use it
    • The update in WP Fastest Cache that is my fault and what to do with it
    • Why we’re tickled about more user requested features come to Social Pug
    • A tip about what to do right after you update plugins
    • What the new Google Rich Results Tester checks
    • Why we’re silly happy about more diversity of domains in search
    • Why that diversity is great for videos too
    • What’s coming in the Genesis 3.0 release in a couple of weeks

  • Tips Tuesday – Contact Forms, Facebook API, Video Stats, Member Site Changes

    Tips this week include:
    • A new format for Tips Tuesday
    • Report on the grand opening of the Gutenberg Ninja Course
    • Big changes coming to the BlogAid Learning Center – home of the DIY SEO course
    • Why I temporarily closed purchase to the Webmaster Training
    • A new tour and tutorial on Formidable Forms
    • A huge thank you to my business visionary coach
    • The journey all site owners go through moving from a newb to a money-making mindset
    • An update on the Cloudflare/Facebook issue
    • An update on the new directive I found lurking in your SiteGround files
    • A potential bug in the latest Scriptless Social Sharing plugin update
    • A big change to the Facebook API for showing share counts
    • Google is rolling out a big algorithm update right now, and where to look for changes
    • A follow up from Yoast on potential auto updates coming to the plugin
    • Some seriously interesting video stats that is encouraging to keep doing more of them

  • Tips Tuesday – Site Speed Improvements, WP 5.2.1 Rollout, Dropped Support of Old PHP and WP, cPanel Changes

    Tips this week include:
    • The Gutenberg Course is available to all with a grand opening discount
    • Live session this week in the DIY SEO course for Yoast and Search Console changes
    • Why I’m so tickled with my 2 latest video experiments for Heartwood Art
    • Why I’ve taken to deleting cache after updates and the 3 places you need to do that
    • WordPress 5.2.1 is scheduled to roll out today – see what’s in it
    • More on the huge new feature in WP 5.2 of a signature key security code
    • Why Yoast is dropping support for pre-Gutenberg WP versions and why I’m delighted about it
    • Why cPanel is removing PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0 and what you need to do now
    • What’s up with cPanel changing the way our SSL certificates renew and why it’s making me crazy
    • Changes to your heartbeat and revision control code coming
    • Why you need to get an annual site checkup
    • Nginx is coming to cPanel and what I’m watching closely for that will impact our site speed
    • Huge speed boost from Cloudflare with their new HTTP/2 Prioritization feature

  • Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg, WP 5.2, Hosting, Search Console, SEO

    Tips this week include:
    • Gutenberg course launching this week
    • Where to get a discount on the Gutenberg course
    • Whether it’s safe to update to WP 5.2 or not
    • How to ensure you have a complete backup solution
    • What’s up with GoDaddy purchasing CoBlocks
    • Why you need to get on the Gutenberg train
    • 2019 Hosting Benchmark report is out
    • Testing results for speed and SEO on the GeneratePress theme
    • New features and SEO in WP Tasty and WP Recipe Maker plugins
    • New speed reports in Google Search Console
    • Updates and sessions coming to the DIY SEO course

  • Tips Tuesday – Video Promo, WP 5.2, Genesis 2.10, Search Console, Gutenberg

    Tips this week include:
    • What the cause was for my site email issues that cropped up after the host move
    • An update on how things are going at the new host
    • The new quick video blog promotion experiment I ran over the weekend
    • Who reached out with an offer because of that experiment
    • How my deep dive into the Teachable platform is going
    • What’s in WordPress 5.2 that releases today and why we’ll wait to update
    • The results of a massive Accessibility Audit on Gutenberg
    • Whether Chrome is really delivering a death blow to cookie tracking
    • New image and video schema markup in Yoast SEO
    • A primer for you to learn more about Structured Data and schema markup
    • Why we don’t care that Google shut off slivers of info from Search Console
    • More on the 3 new reports in Search Console that will help us with our schema markup and more
    • What’s in the release of Genesis 2.10