Tips this week include:
• Site speed post series launching this week
• New Webmaster caching plugin tutorials released
• The hoohaa still going on with the MediaVine plugin and loosing HTTPS secure status
• A new plugin that will disable Gutenberg completely
• The Gutenberg nag that will be coming in WordPress 4.9.6
• Why you need to start checking plugin update notes
• Why getting in on Google Voice Search is more important than ever
• Why Google is giving podcasts some extra exposure
• A new test on how well longer meta descriptions are working out in Google SERPs
• A GDPR tutorial on how to make your MailChimp signup forms compliant
• How SiteGround is preparing for GDPR compliance
• Whether your site needs a Terms and Conditions page and what should be on it
• Why you need to log out when you’re not active in your WordPress site
• What the death of SquirrelMail in cPanel means for us

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Tips this week include:
• Why page weight is the big factor in site speed and why you need to reduce it
• Update to the Cloudflare Page Rules tutorials that affected my member site access
• What MediaVine ad network users need to check on their sites right now
• Which hosting failed when a major ice storm hit Michigan this weekend
• SiteGround removes a blocking filter for WP Rocket users
• Why you need to test going up to PHP 7.2 soon
• What SSL related issues a new version of cPanel is going to cause
• Why to check your email list service for GDPR compliance
• The new GDPR compliance tools coming in the WordPress core this month
• What steps you may need to take, or not, for GDPR if you’re running ads
• How to republish old blog posts so both Google and readers are happy with you
• A refresher on SEO basics that 80% of my clients were missing, and I bet you are too

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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