Podcast

  • Tips Tuesday – Site Speed, Genesis 2.6, Yoast SEO 7.0.3

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – Free Images, Speed Tests, Huge DDoS Attack

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – Faster Sites, Yoast 7.0, Genesis 2.6 Beta, 404 Crawls

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – DIY SEO, Hosting Tests, Speed Tests, Get a WAF

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – Lazy Load Images, SEO Audit, iThemes, WordPress 4.9.3

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – IP Firewalls, Caching Tests, Videos from Images

    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

  • Tips Tuesday – SEO Interview, WP Rocket Tests, Voice Search

    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