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Tips this week include:
• Ultimate speed tests on live sites have started!!!!!!
• Speed Workshop for Webmaster Training Members
• Are you getting all the low hanging, easy fruit to speed up your site?
• Why to check your SSL certificate to ensure it is not from Symantec
• The skinny on Google using Chrome data to verify your site speed
• How and why speed matters to your bottom line
• How to hook your visitors with a sizzling “About Us” page
• What’s up with the stop word feature for permalinks in Yoast SEO
• Whether issues I reported at SiteGround have been resolved
• Why you should never ask your host to make changes with your site

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Live Site Speed Tests, Speed Workshop, Sizzling About Us Page

Tips this week include:
• Ultimate speed tests have started on BlogAid and client sites this week and what I’m encountering
• Update on the status of the WP Fastest Cache and WP Rocket Tutorials
• Issues at SiteGround you may be encountering
• What’s not in the latest WordPress 4.9.5 release that rolls out today
• The big change to Caldera Forms coding that will affect all plugins
• How and why you must switch to PHP 7 immediately
• Getting your site ready for GDPR with a new plugin and whether to use it or not
• Facebook cracks down on email list uploads and what it means for your privacy statement
• Cloudflare launches a DNS Resolver that you’ll want to use
• How HTTPS sites are going to be harder to snoop on soon
• Google announces the shutdown of their goo.gl link shortner service
• Why it’s time for an RSS revival
• Which words convert the best and how to test them

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Ultimate Speed, Cloudflare DNS Resolver, WordPress 4.9.5 Release

Tips this week include:
• New Yoast 7.1 Tutorials
• Next DIY SEO live workshop on formatting for Google Snippets
• Why I’m hiring a Cloudflare consultant to speed up my member sites
• An update on what’s on my site audit waiting list
• The Gutenberg callout that may be coming to WordPress 4.9.5 and why you don’t want to do it
• A new way to keep your SSL certificate from getting spoofed
• Why paying for HTTPS conversion is a good long-term investment that saves you money
• Mobile-first indexing emails from Google Search Console coming out to you soon
• 2 lists of the slowest and most resource intensive WordPress plugins
• A call to plugin devs to stop supporting old PHP versions and what that means for you
• How and why to get your site and marketing strategy ready for GDPR that hits in May

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Yoast 7.1 Tutorials, GDPR, SSL Authentication, Site Speed

Tips this week include:
• New WebPage Test and GTMetrix speed tutorials
• What went haywire with my live site speed tests on BlogAid
• Speed tweaks coming to client sites
• Status update on the waiting list for site audits and HTTPS conversion
• Whether or not it’s safe to update Yoast SEO yet
• The new wildcard certificate from Let’s Encrypt and if you can use it or not
• Changes to how SiteGround auto updates your site
• Best practices for pagination and SEO that will affect everyone who promotes their categories
• What we should do with our old XML sitemaps on our non-canonical
• Huge changes to Google image search that will bring you more site traffic
• A great place to get free stock art
• WordPress celebrates hitting another milestone
• Great news from Cloudflare that will speed up your site delivery
• 7 important design trends for sites in 2018 that is a must-read for all designers

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Speed Tutorials, Google Image Search Changes, Free Stock Art

Tips this week include:
• Why you need to get your site audit request in right away
• Why my contact form got knocked stupid for a few days
• Clarifying more advanced settings at Cloudflare for increased security and speed
• What’s in the newest Webmaster tutorials
• Update to the WP Fastest Cache tutorial
• The next DIY SEO Workshop on Categories and Tags
• Why you need to hold off on using AMP
• Whether it’s safe to update to Genesis 2.6
• Whether it’s safe to update the Yoast SEO plugin

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Site Speed, Genesis 2.6, Yoast SEO 7.0.3

Tips this week include:
• Caching and Cloudflare
• New WebPage Test tutorials
• Mobile Speed Test tutorials
• Blog Post SEO Workshop this week
• What’s next for Rand Fishkin since he left Moz
• Why I’m excited about Google’s new Multi-Intent Featured Snippet test
• Whether you should be worried about Chrome filtering ads now
• Two-Factor authentication coming to WordPress without a plugin
• The huge DDoS attack last week that has all server farms quaking in their shoes and how to protect your site
• What’s in the new Gutenberg Plugin Compatibility Chart
• A super tutorial for styling themes for Gutenberg
• A great place to get free images for your blog and more
• A fun way to put motion into your still images

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Free Images, Speed Tests, Huge DDoS Attack

Tips this week include:
• Deep dive into browser caching and HTTPS
• Live Webmaster Level 6 chat today
• How to get the bloat out of your site for better speed
• Why we may be seeing updates to our favorite caching plugins
• Why we’re doing a bonus workshop on images for the DIY SEO course and the full schedule for March on SEO for blog posts is up
• Big changes for the Yoast SEO plugin coming in version 7.0
• Whether or not 404s blow your Googlebot crawl budget
• Why you must keep your plugins updated and the big plugins with current security issues
• What’s in the new premium version of WP-Optimize
• Why WordPress plans to add core support for GDPR compliance
• The new Genesis 2.6 Beta is ready for testing
• Why more plugins are adding a Lazy Load feature for images
• Why more online services are adding 2-step authentication by default and what that means for webmasters and site managers
• Why you don’t want to pay for the new SiteGround backup services

Read More about Tips Tuesday – Faster Sites, Yoast 7.0, Genesis 2.6 Beta, 404 Crawls

Tips this week include:
• The speed tests are complete
• Reminder: the next DIY SEO live workshop is this Thursday
• A reminder to manually update to WordPress 4.9.4
• The best order to do your site updates and why
• WordPress.com has a new President and what that means for Automattic’s future
• Why you don’t need to worry about Gutenberg
• What’s in the 2018 hosting benchmark’s just released
• How the huge drop in the Google crawl budget will affect you
• Predictions from Cloudflare about what’s in store for sites in 2018
• Why you must get a Web Application Firewall now

Read More about Tips Tuesday – DIY SEO, Hosting Tests, Speed Tests, Get a WAF