Podcast

Tips this week include:
• How much free site help from your host is costing you
• Live site audit and speed session for Webmaster Level 6 members
• How to renew your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on SiteGround if you use Cloudflare
• A new aggregate speed index from Google PageSpeed Insights
• Examples of the slimy SEO industry tricks that you’re competing with
• An update on the recipe plugin schema markup tests
• How to get more social shares on your blog posts and why this is good for SEO too
• How to jump on Google now letting us verify the Knowledge Graph it carries on us
• A site speed case study that shows you how to improve conversion rate
• The big news with a new online shopping sales tax law being passed
• 10 super unique blogging tips that will break you out of your rut and give you a fresh mindset

Read More about Tips Tuesday – More Shares, Online Sales Tax, Unique Blogging Tips

Tips this week include:
• New Cloudflare Tutorials
• A roundup of posts on speed and things you can do to make your site fast right now
• Why Voice Search will soon be the norm
• What mobile-first indexing is and how it works
• What I discovered about Yoast SEO premium redirects that I don’t like
• A monster list of GDPR plugins
• How Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub might affect future plugin development

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Cloudflare Tutorials, Speed Posts, Mobile-First Indexing

Tips this week include:
• What we’re finding in site audits
• Update on resuming Webmaster speed tutorials and live sessions
• What’s coming down the pike for the DIY SEO course
• Alternatives for Social Warfare
• Why you may want to consider switching to NameCheap as your domain registrar
• Why you need to check your Yoast SEO settings for Media Attachments immediately
• Why that Yoast SEO bug was not solely responsible for a drop in rankings for some folks
• A super post on product photography that all craft/lifestyle/foodie bloggers will like
• The importance of photojournalism and entertaining on your blog
• A whole bunch of helpful image tips, including a way to test them for speed
• Why video is so important to bloggers
• Tips about embedding videos on your site

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Site Speed, SEO Ranking Drops, Great Photography, Video Embeds

Tips this week include:
• New post on why EU country blocking won’t work for GDPR compliance
• New post on the raging debate about IP addresses and cookies that will impact all online biz
• Why I have to keep a GDPR meeting private with just my site audit clients and webmasters
• Why you need to get your request in now for site speed to beat Google’s July deadline
• Why you must take control over WordPress updates
• Why Yoast SEO tweaked the meta description length again
• Update on new structured data for recipes that could bring you tons more traffic
• A new extension for Chrome that you don’t want to tell anybody about
• Why encrypting your backups are a requirement now
• Update on how to detect cookies you have in use on your site

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Site Speed Deadline, WordPress Updates, GDPR, Encrypt Backup Files

Tips this week include:
• A new GDPR Plugins and Services post
• A couple of super quick and easy GDPR related tasks to do
• Celebrating two of my Scratched to Published clients launching their new sites soon
• An indicator of what’s to come with WordPress cleaning house on unused plugins
• How to easily make it through the major transition with plugins that we are in right now
• A super tutorial for designers on Gutenberg in Genesis
• What you need to know about Gutenberg as a site owner that will keep you calm
• 5 ways to encourage more comments on your blog posts that are easy to do
• Why you need to send your recipes to Google Assistant right away

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Recipes in Google Assistant, GDPR, Unused Plugins

Tips this week include:
• A whole series of GDPR posts and more on the way
• Why you need to jump on getting your email list GDPR compliant now
• A new, free ebook I’m working on and will have for you soon
• WordPress 4.9.6 is due out this week with new GDPR Tools
• How you can get up-to-the-minute news from me
• Why I’m trying to curb my excitement about my fave fix-it guy possibly returning
• Is the hoohaa finally over with the Social Warfare plugin and is it safe to update now?
• Which resource hog plugin I recently tested that will kill your page load speed
• Google makes meta descriptions in SERPs short again and what you should do about it
• Why Google Assistant taking center stage at the I/O conference is huge news for you
• What’s up with Yoast SEO adding caching to images

Read More about Tips Tuesday – GDPR, Google Assistant, WordPress 4.9.6, Free Site Success eBook

Tips this week include:
• The new speed post series has launched
• Site audit workshops begin this week for Webmaster Training members
• Whether you should add special HowTo schema markup to your posts yet
• Why I’m so excited about Google expanding Featured Snippets with a drop-down
• What’s up with Google Analytics and GDPR compliance
• A new Cookiebot plugin for GDPR compliance I’m looking into
• Cloudflare adds super new protections to their WAF
• Why to get your email off your hosting and how it saved one of my clients
• Whether you should use a free Gmail account for your main site contact
• How to backup your Gmail inbox to another Gmail account, including GSuites
• How to prepare your content for extended reality
• What’s in the new version of GIMP for image creation and optimization

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Speed Posts, GIMP Images, GDPR Plugin, Using Free Gmai

Tips this week include:
• Site speed post series launching this week
• New Webmaster caching plugin tutorials released
• The hoohaa still going on with the MediaVine plugin and loosing HTTPS secure status
• A new plugin that will disable Gutenberg completely
• The Gutenberg nag that will be coming in WordPress 4.9.6
• Why you need to start checking plugin update notes
• Why getting in on Google Voice Search is more important than ever
• Why Google is giving podcasts some extra exposure
• A new test on how well longer meta descriptions are working out in Google SERPs
• A GDPR tutorial on how to make your MailChimp signup forms compliant
• How SiteGround is preparing for GDPR compliance
• Whether your site needs a Terms and Conditions page and what should be on it
• Why you need to log out when you’re not active in your WordPress site
• What the death of SquirrelMail in cPanel means for us

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Disable Gutenberg, Speed Post Series and Tutorials, MediaVine