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
Tips Tuesday – GDPR, Google Assistant, WordPress 4.9.6, Free Site Success eBook
Tips this week include:
• A whole series of GDPR posts and more on the way
• Why you need to jump on getting your email list GDPR compliant now
• A new, free ebook I’m working on and will have for you soon
• WordPress 4.9.6 is due out this week with new GDPR Tools
• How you can get up-to-the-minute news from me
• Why I’m trying to curb my excitement about my fave fix-it guy possibly returning
• Is the hoohaa finally over with the Social Warfare plugin and is it safe to update now?
• Which resource hog plugin I recently tested that will kill your page load speed
• Google makes meta descriptions in SERPs short again and what you should do about it
• Why Google Assistant taking center stage at the I/O conference is huge news for you
• What’s up with Yoast SEO adding caching to images
Tips Tuesday – Speed Posts, GIMP Images, GDPR Plugin, Using Free Gmai
Tips this week include:
• The new speed post series has launched
• Site audit workshops begin this week for Webmaster Training members
• Whether you should add special HowTo schema markup to your posts yet
• Why I’m so excited about Google expanding Featured Snippets with a drop-down
• What’s up with Google Analytics and GDPR compliance
• A new Cookiebot plugin for GDPR compliance I’m looking into
• Cloudflare adds super new protections to their WAF
• Why to get your email off your hosting and how it saved one of my clients
• Whether you should use a free Gmail account for your main site contact
• How to backup your Gmail inbox to another Gmail account, including GSuites
• How to prepare your content for extended reality
• What’s in the new version of GIMP for image creation and optimization
Tips Tuesday – Disable Gutenberg, Speed Post Series and Tutorials, MediaVine
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
Tips Tuesday – Changes to GDPR, MediaVine, Cloudflare, SEO, PHP 7.2
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
Tips Tuesday – Live Site Speed Tests, Speed Workshop, Sizzling About Us Page
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
Tips Tuesday – Ultimate Speed, Cloudflare DNS Resolver, WordPress 4.9.5 Release
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
Tips Tuesday – Yoast 7.1 Tutorials, GDPR, SSL Authentication, Site Speed
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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