Podcast

  • Tips Tuesday – Grow Optins, Lazy Load, Browser Updates, Search Console Course

    Tips this week include:
    • What you need to do to ensure you stay on the BlogAid email list
    • The backup tutorials I’ve been updating for my webmasters
    • The bonus you get as a site owner who is ahead of the change curves
    • What’s up with my October site audit schedule and why you need to beat the rush
    • An update on the status of the new Google Search Console course, and who will get discounts soon
    • Mark your calendars for a show on Wed talking about Gutenberg and the future of the web
    • An easy way you can guide the future of WordPress development
    • What’s in the update for the Best Recipe Plugin tests
    • A super way I found to speed up your site with lazy load, even if you run ads
    • The new feature I’m tickled to see come to WP Fastest Cache
    • Will the new schema markup Blocks for Yoast mess up your recipe posts?
    • Why small biz site owners can now add Yelp and other reviews to their sites
    • What’s in the updates to FireFox and Chrome that should deeply concern you
    • Tips for great ways to grow your email list

  • Tips Tuesday – Site Backups, HSTS for HTTPS, EAT Score for SEO

    Tips this week include:
    • An update on my new image SEO research and the Pandora’s box that opened
    • A WordPress Backup Checklist that is a must-read for all site owners
    • New Backup Quick Checks for my Site Audit Plus clients
    • Where to find a new Gutenberg Block Index
    • How long the Classic Editor plugin will be available
    • A radical split in vision from 2 major voices in forking WordPress and an LTS version
    • What the release of PHP 7.3 means for site owners and plugin developers
    • Why you need HSTS for your HTTPS conversion and what Google has to do with it
    • Google begins notifying site owners of bad HTTPS conversions
    • What your EAT score is and how to improve it for SEO

  • Tips Tuesday – Analytics Changes, Gutenberg, SEO Formatting Works

    Tips this week include:
    • Yoast’s video answer to my question about lazy load and SEO
    • My new video tutorial on using iFrame and lazy load for faster video loading
    • An unexpected issue I ran into with using lazy load
    • The launch of a new member area for my site audit clients
    • Test results for the best recipe plugin to use
    • Conclusive evidence that the featured snippet formatting I teach in the DIY SEO course works
    • Mark your calendars for my upcoming interview on the Tinkering with Tech Show
    • What’s up with the ClassicPress petition and major fork of WordPress
    • My thoughts on the “Try Gutenberg” adoption rate reports
    • How convenience and free cost you more in the long run
    • What Oakley Capital buying up cPanel means for us as site owners and our hosts
    • How the Image data change to Google Analytics could look like a downturn in traffic
    • A new auto verify feature for sites in Search Console and how it works
    • How Google Analytics is lying to you in a massive way, or maybe not

  • Tips Tuesday – Google Authorship, Gutenberg Report, New Fonts, Let’s Encrypt Trust

    Tips this week include:
    • How a full HTTPS conversion saves and makes you money
    • How to embed a video using iFrame code for faster page loads
    • A new member level coming for site audit clients
    • Why I’m not surprised that Google Authorship isn’t dead after all
    • Huge news for foodie bloggers with the launch of the new Google Smart Display
    • An update on my recipe plugin tests and a clear winner is emerging
    • A look at the new Transport Layer Security version that just released
    • What the Let’s Encrypt milestone of being trusted by Microsoft means for you
    • The big font change by Gutenberg that all designers will want to know about
    • A report on what it’s like to use Gutenberg and how it could radically disrupt your content creation process

  • Tips Tuesday – GoDaddy Breach, SiteGround Migrations, Gutenberg Trials

    Tips this week include:
    • New Site Audit Client Flash Challenges and why we’re doing them
    • A GoDaddy data breach that may affect you, and an update on that report
    • How to restore a plugin update to the previous version
    • Mixed reactions to the Try Gutenberg invitation in WP 4.9.8
    • My Gutenberg tutorial schedule
    • What’s up with SiteGround no longer offering free cPanel migrations
    • Results on that massive Google Algorithm update at the first of the month
    • The settings I’m checking in Yoast SEO for category archive pages
    • Recipe plugin tests almost finished

  • Tips Tuesday – 4 New Courses, WP 4.9.8, Genesis 2.6.1, Google Algorithm Update

    Tips this week include:
    • A sneak peek at what’s coming from BlogAid for the rest of 2018 including 4 new courses
    • Why hiring the help you need is a good idea
    • What’s in WordPress 4.9.8 and the first thing you need to do after you update
    • What’s in the latest Genesis update
    • The huge Google Algorithm update that whacked some sites hard
    • How to watermark your blog images, plus the pros and cons of it
    • The message Facebook is really sending with the shutdown of their API for auto-posting
    • A super post on the top reasons visitors leave your site and how to fix them

  • Tips Tuesday – WP 4.9.8, Gutenberg, Hack Attacks, Schema Markup for News

    Tips this week include:
    • The new BlogAid theme is live!!
    • A new Happy Clients page with success stories that just blew me away
    • My new Gutenberg posts have launched, and more on the way
    • WordPress 4.9.8 releases today and how to turn off the Try Gutenberg invitation
    • The reports I’m seeing of the latest hacker probing attempts and how to protect your site
    • What has me nervous about a new site cloning feature from UpdraftPlus
    • What’s up with Google testing a new layout for images with titles
    • Finally! Some corroboration about why you need to stop chasing green dots in Yoast
    • New schema markup for speakable news posts
    • 4 ways to write better blog posts immediately

  • Tips Tuesday – PHP 7, Chrome 68, Blogging Ideas, Voice Search

    Tips this week include:
    • A call for Happy Client stories
    • New Gutenberg posts on the way
    • Why you need to upgrade your hosting to PHP 7 right away
    • A check to see if your backup solution is complete
    • The Not Secure warning for non HTTPS sites rolls out with Chrome 68 today
    • Who just bought Stone Temple Consulting, and what this means for SEO tips for us
    • A very interesting interview with Joost de Valk on what the future holds for voice search
    • Synonyms finally come to the Yoast SEO content analysis tool
    • What the top 10 OWASP security holes are on your site, and an easy way to plug them
    • A new migration tool from SiteGround and why you don’t want to use it
    • 7 tips to get you unstuck with blogging and generating new ideas