Tips Tuesday

Tips Tuesday – WP 5.4 Beta, Domain Price Increase, Cookie Blocking, Site SEO Guidelines

February 18, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• An update on what’s happening with my speed testing
• We’ll be covering global SEO site guidelines in our next DIY SEO live workshop Thursday
• Why you may want to revamp your site layout
• An upcoming Instagram chat with my Site Audit Plus clients
• The secret deals happening that will make our domain name prices go up
• What’s in the WordPress 5.4 Beta release and what was just a wild rumor
• The new Gutenberg features coming in WordPress 5.4 that I’m excited about
• The temporary issues with updating the Google Analytics Dashboard for WP plugin and what they stripped out of the free version
• The issues some folks are having with adding Google Analytics code directly to their site
• Why you need to update the Ninja Forms plugin immediately
• What’s really going on with SiteGround moving sites over to Google Cloud
• The new cookie blocking I’ve seen in both Firefox and Chrome this week
• A new star rating review snippet report in Google Search Console that recipe sites will want to know about

Tips Tuesday – SEO Ranking, Best Hosting, Astra 2.0, Pinterest Strategy

February 11, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• The next 2 live sessions this week for the DIY SEO course on Technical SEO and rank tracking
• What’s up with so many things breaking right now
• Investing in your business for site success
• How you might be doing more harm than good to improve your site speed
• Why hosts are now contacting me for partnership opportunities
• Why I’m celebrating pinning to Pinterest
• What happened I when tried a new way of creating posts and videos
• Where and why to use the sponsored tag on your links
• What’s in the new Astra Themes 2.0 beta release
• The huge leap Genesis is about to make toward full Gutenberg support
• My take on a new bulk block converter plugin
• A follow up on the Chrome 80 third party cookie tracking changes

Tips Tuesday – SEO Workshops, SiteGround PHP 7.3, Lazy Load in WP 5.4, GSC Removal Tool

February 4, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Plugins to get off your site that we dumped last year
• Why I want you to invest in your own success and stop relying on me as the maid of your site
• The DIY SEO live workshops start this week
• Whether including lazy load in the upcoming WordPress 5.4 release is a good thing or not
• If you should get busy converting old content to Gutenberg blocks before support for the Classic Editor drops in 2021
• Why I’m sending you less emails, and why reading Tips Tuesday matters more than ever now
• Google has released a new Removal Tool in Search Console and what’s in it
• The Chrome 3rd party cookie tracking changes start this week
• Why you don’t want SiteGround to update you to PHP 7.3 automatically
• Help for moving to better hosting

Tips Tuesday – DIY SEO, Cookies in Chrome 80, XML Sitemap in WordPress

January 28, 2020 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• The DIY SEO Quick Start Challenge has begun
• More info about the cookie tracking fiasco coming on Feb 4 from Chrome 80
• An updated tutorial on changing to PHP 7.3 at your host and why you must do this now
• Whether organic traffic dropped after Google took away the 2nd post listing on page 1 if you are also in a Featured Snippet
• The structured data Google dropped support for and if the fault is with the Yoast SEO plugin
• A new Feature Plugin to natively add XML sitemap generation to WordPress
• What big changes we may see when WordPress 5.4 comes out
• A peek at how Gutenberg is becoming a full theme builder

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