Tips this week are all about the 4 super important things on our radar right now, and they are:
• HTTPS
• Site speed
• SEO
• Making more money

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Tips this week include:
• What I’m finding in my caching and speed tests
• Why where you host matters so much
• Are you chasing scores or speed?
• Why Google PageSpeed Insights is a worthless tester
• A super easy tool to list out all of your blog posts in a spreadsheet
• What’s in the recent WordPress 4.9.3 release
• UpdraftPlus acquires a new site manager plugin
• LiquidWeb purchases iThemes
• Major changes in Contact Form 7 and why I may not be recommending it much longer
• A super JotForm tutorial
• Why ranking in Google is all about user intent now
• A new image lazy load feature coming to Chrome
• What’s at the very top of the latest Google Webmaster Report
• What the new SEO audit extension in Chrome can and can’t do

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Tips this week include:
• New head-to-head caching tests underway
• Why your host type and traffic matter to vet the info you read about caching
• What’s new in our DIY SEO content audit side challenge
• The date for the next DIY SEO Workshop on global site and page SEO
• How to track outbound link clicks in Google Analytics
• Why you need to fully disable XML-RPC to prevent a DDoS attack
• Why I issued an update tutorial to Cloudflare’s IP Firewall settings
• Why designers must learn how to properly secure a site
• An insightful recap of the major Google announcements from 2017
• How to easily create marketing videos from still images
• 5 fun things you didn’t know you could do with FooGallery
• 6 reasons why you should be using SVG images
• Happy 15th birthday to WordPress

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Tips this week include:
• Join me for a live interview with SEO consultant Brian Weiss this Wednesday
• DIY SEO Workshop on Rising Ranking Factors and live speed test tonight
• How SEO saved the day when a company had their marketing budget slashed
• WP Rocket Tests are complete and what’s next
• Why you need to vet what you read about speed
• Google’s new deadline for when speed will become a mobile ranking factor
• What is UX and why bother with it
• Study finds 80% of Voice Search comes from Answer Box Snippets and how you can get in on it
• When virtual reality will hit WordPress sites
• The importance of goal setting for bloggers

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Tips this week include:
• Live interview with SEO consultant Brian Weiss
• Updates to the first DIY SEO Workshop and Bonus Session
• How to Test Image Optimization for Faster Page Load Speed
• wpDiscuz Tutorial releasing later this week
• WP Rocket Tests Underway
• Who needs to jump on the release of Gutenberg 2.0
• What Google confirming it uses your XML sitemap for
• Mastering the Changing Digital Marketing Landscape
• Google PageSpeed Insights Finally Adds Speed Scores and why it’s worthless
• An improved campaign creation workflow comes to MailChimp

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Tips this week include:
• Start of the DIY SEO Workshops today
• How the Meltdown and Spectre Hardware Attacks Affect WordPress
• 3 plugins to check for backdoor security threats
• Why I’m giving FooGallery a big pat on the back
• New Interface for Google Search Console
• How Mobile-First indexing works and will affect your SEO
• 28 places to download free blog images
• Why not to steal images off Google
• New Gutenberg development course and who should take it
• Genesis design trends for 2018 and a must-listen podcast for all designers

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Tips this week include trends and predictions and what I believe will lead to site success for you in 2018.

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Tips this week include:
• DIY SEO Jumpstart Challenge has begun
• Update on SSL certificates renewing when using Cloudflare
• Social Warfare featuring shorter Pinterest image
• New features in WP Rocket 2.11
• New features in Yoast SEO 6.0
• How long should your SEO meta description be for 2018 posts?
• New Google rich results and new testing tool
• New Google Snippets video series
• A complete guide to what direct traffic is in Google Analytics
• How to run a social media hashtag campaign
• What’s up with Chrome banning non-compliant ads starting in March
• What the cPanel Upgrade to TLS 1.2 means for your site speed and security
• What every Genesis developer/designer needs to know
• A new front end Gutenberg optimized theme to play with

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