Podcast

Tips this week include:
• How theme design impacts site load speed
• The big changes I’m getting all of us site owners ready for, and when they will hit
• The new courses coming to the DIY SEO training
• WordPress 4.9.8 release schedule and what’s in it that you don’t want to use
• HostGator and Bluehost rumored to be down, and perhaps why
• The GDPR cookie plugin I see the most folks using
• A new place to get great free images for your blog and social media

Tips this week include:
• Tips for doing your own content revamp that make it so easy
• The SEO of deleting old content
• An update on the recipe plugin schema markup tests
• A site audit client story about how great it feels to know what you’re doing
• The hoohaa around the WordPress 4.9.7 security release and who I’m mad at about it
• How and why to turn off auto updates for WordPress, and what you have to be super vigilant about afterward
• What’s in the Genesis 2.6.1 recent release
• It’s confirmed! The Google speed update rolled out July 9, and what this really means for your site
• Why a voice app for your site might be in your future
• The reality of keyword research and why I don’t teach it
• 5 ways to get your blog post to go viral
• Why a writing style matters for your blog – and how to improve yours

Tips this week include:
• Why I’m doing a theme revamp on BlogAid even with Gutenberg rolling out soon
• New Flash Challenges coming to the DIY SEO course
• The high cost of putting off moving to a better host
• Foodie bloggers getting emails from Google Search Console for missing schema markup
• Yoast SEO 7.7 update has a new snippet editor
• StudioPress has been acquired by WPEngine and what that means for Genesis theme users
• An issue with the preview for Pinterest shares with the Shared Count plugin
• A new bug for the Cloudflare plugin when using PHP 7.2 at your host

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

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

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

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

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