Tips Tuesday

Tips Tuesday – Death of Cookies, TLS 1.2 Warnings, New Bing Tutorials, Site Speed Tests

January 21, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Why we’re going back to our original time for the livestream
• Interesting site speed case study I’m doing this week
• Where the encore of the Gutenberg webinar will be shown
• DIY SEO Quick Start begins this Thursday to prep for our live workshops
• What’s new from the dev of Social Pug
• Which speed tests I’m starting on this week
• Why you need to go directly to your WP login page to avoid a redirect
• Why you need to log out of your WP site
• Why it’s a mistake to think that Google alone is pushing us for better internet security
• The new unsecured warning Chrome will start showing this week
• Why 3rd party cookies are going to die and what this means for those who run ads on their site

Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Webinar, Speed Tests, Themes, Mediavine Awards

January 14, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Why you need to get your site spring cleaning booked now
• Free webinar this Thursday to see the power of Gutenberg
• Why there will be a one week delay you won’t mind on starting the DIY SEO workshops
• Why I’ll be making the data from my speed tests public this year
• Who built all of the themes I’ll be using in those speed tests
• Why the Toolset Blocks commitment to Gutenberg spells the death of page builders
• What’s coming next to Gutenberg
• Are you regularly checking your feedback data and why it’s critically important to do so
• Is keyword research totally dead now?
• Big congratulations to Mediavine on winning 2 Google Certified Publishing Partner Awards

Tips Tuesday – DDoS Attacks, Backup Check, SiteGround Migrations, Gutenberg Webinar

January 7, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Gutenberg Webinar is in the works
• Live Pinterest chat with my site audit clients on Wednesday
• The DIY SEO Jump Start Challenge begins soon ahead of our live workshops
• SiteGround is doing internal migrations and what you’ll need to update
• What to do if you want to move off SiteGround to better hosting
• The DDoS attacks are ramping up and shutting sites down
• How to check to ensure you have a full backup of your site
• Upcoming release dates for all future WordPress major versions through 2021
• The new Gutenberg features you won’t be seeing in my course for a while and why that’s a good thing

Tips Tuesday – Holiday Deals End Soon, SiteGround Migrations, Gutenberg Theme Builder

December 31, 2019 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Time’s running out fast on the BlogAid Holiday Deals – we’re down to the final days so get your goodies before Santa MaAnna packs her bag and they’re gone!
• An invitation for you to give a little input on whether you’d listen the livestream from Tuesday evening as a podcast.
• What’s in my tell-all post for the 2019 year in review for my hobby to money-making site
• What’s in the 2019 year in review for BlogAid post and what’s coming for 2020
• Why you’ll be receiving less emails from me
• Why I was banned from a scrollsaw Facebook group
• Why I got so mad in another Facebook group that I’m on a mission to do something about it
• The surprise migrations happening at SiteGround with very little notice and what you need to change
• The awesome perks my site audit clients get for free, like help with what’s happening at SiteGround
• Why the WP devs are asking designers to rethink themes with Gutenberg
• Why all designers need to follow the Make WordPress Design blog now
• An update on progress with the new Block Directory and why I’m excited about it
• And when I’ll be flipping more of my sites to Gutenberg

Tips Tuesday – Increased Spam, New Webmaster Tutorials, DIY SEO Jump Start

December 24, 2019 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Gutenberg webinar is coming soon
• What new tutorials are up in the Webmaster Training for Designers course
• When we will start the DIY SEO Jump Start checks and what new big thing is coming to the course
• Time is running out on the BlogAid holiday deals, so get your goodies now
• The continued uptick in spam that we’re experiencing and what it means for our site security
• Why I was banned from a woodworking Facebook group that is a must read for all crafters and those who rely heavily on Pinterest for their traffic
• What was in the WordPress 5.3.2 release
• How to update to WordPress 5.3 if you haven’t yet
• What’s up with the new checkboxes on reports in Google Search Console
• What you should do if you get an Authenticated Origin Pull warning email from Cloudflare

Tips Tuesday – Site Owner Tips and Myth Busting

December 17, 2019 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Multiple tips and myth busting for DIY site owners
• Why I had to mute a few Facebook groups
• 11 new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are now live, including full page examples for home, landing, optins, and more
• WordPress 5.3.1 is out
• The difference in major and minor releases and which one auto updates
• Why you need to get on the Cloudflare Pro for better security
• Why security plugins don’t work and what they’re really doing to your hosting resources
• Why you must get a site audit checkup
• All of the site audit client perks you get for free, including where to find info I don’t release to the public
• Which is the best hosting, and why most replies to that question are useless
• The truth about why migrating to a new host is harder than it used to be
• Checking on the Yoast SEO Search Index Purge plugin and why I think it may not be working and what to do about it
• Why to stop using an incognito window to check ranking
• Why you need to check your WP Fastest Cache settings now
• Why I’m suggesting you embed Google Analytics code instead of using a plugin
• The bot hits that Google Analytics is not counting that are costing you money
• A check to see if you are using the WP Rollback plugin correctly
• Why I suggest doing a full purge after plugin updates, and how to do it
• What’s in the email you get from Amazon S3 for your backup file storage, and why not to freak out about it
• A way to check that your backup is getting everything you need to fully restore your site

Tips Tuesday – Update WP 5.3, Gutenberg and Page Builders, NameHero is #1

December 10, 2019 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• BlogAid courses are on sale for the holidays, as is hosting
• The super fun I’m having with creating snazzy Gutenberg page templates and when they’ll hit the course
• How to update to WordPress 5.3 and the special order you need to do things
• What you need to delete after updating to WordPress 5.3
• The progress reported on Gutenberg as a full theme builder
• My test results for the GetWid Gutenberg plugin
• A block-based theme proposal that is a must-read for all designers
• Why so many designers are dead wrong about what Gutenberg can’t do
• NameHero was just ranked the #1 host for 2020 in an independent case study
• Why you must get your own backups and what happened to someone who trusted her host with it
• Just how important the heading sizes you use can be for SEO – from a company that lost 10% of their revenue over it

Tips Tuesday – Easy Gutenberg, PHP 7.3, Site Speed, Personalized SEO

December 3, 2019 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• The BlogAid Holiday sale on courses and site audits is still on
• Where you can see a preview of the new Gutenberg landing page templates I’m building
• How Gutenberg Made it Easy to Monetize My Site
• A refresh on the DIY SEO course
• What’s up with Google getting super serious about speed and why you need to pay attention
• If you haven’t updated your PHP version to at least 7.2, you’ve now got a security risk on your site – and what to do about it
• Why you need to check your PHP version even if you did update it, especially if you’re on SiteGround
• What I’m seeing with bad bots pulsing and possibly priming for an attack
• The new potential ghost bot hitting Google Analytics
• Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 5.3 yet or not
• How to disable the big image threshold in WordPress 5.3
• A new post for webmasters with database table prefixes of popular WP plugins
• My take on the Google Site Kit plugin and whether you should use it
• What’s up with Google personalizing what you see in the Knowledge Graph and why it has all pro SEOs shaking in their shoes
• A super roundup of everything you need to know about the big Bert update
• And what prompted Yoast to hashtag #neveragain on Twitter