Tips Tuesday

Tips Tuesday – Pretty Links, Facebook Marketing Predictions, State of WordPress Industry

January 31, 2017 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• Why BlogAid and the podcast may have interruptions soon
• Why to get on my HTTPS site conversion list now
• How to protect your site from user generated spam
• An important State of WordPress Industry webinar on Wednesday
• More details on the huge changes coming to WordPress this year
• StudioPress getting in on the managed hosting business
• 19 Facebook Marketing predictions
• A hiccup with UpDraftPlus that’s been fixed
• Sticky Bar Recommendations
• How to cloak affiliate links for SEO
• Pretty Links vs the Redirection plugin
• An even better way to make pretty shortlinks
• The 6 best FTP clients to use for designers and webmasters
• Celebrating perfect security header scores on HTTPS sites

Tips Tuesday – HTTPS Site Conversion, Google Ranking Factors, Tucows Buys eNom

January 24, 2017 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• HTTPS Site Conversion Webinars Follow Up
• Why you need to get on the list to get your site converted to HTTPS
• Why designers need to learn HTTPS or go out of business
• SiteGround Auto Issues Free SSL Certificates
• A Google Ranking Factor post I just can’t believe
• What Matt Cutts is up to now that he resigned from Google
• How HTTP Status Codes affect your SEO
• And which big domain registrar is buying up another

Tips Tuesday – Image Optimization, SSL Certificates, Google Pop Up Penalty

January 17, 2017 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• How image optimization impacts your bottom line
• The new membership site I’m building right now
• The price of being a hands off site owner
• WordPress 4.7.1 bug fixes
• What the Google mobile pop up penalty rolling out means for you
• Why I have to change my SEO and marketing strategy
• How Google changed its test for image optimization
• Google PageSpeed integrated with WebPage Test
• What crawl budget means for Googlebot and how site speed matters
• An update for current VaultPress users
• The Chrome form autofill security issue
• GoDaddy revokes SSL certificates
• An SSL certificate tip for you
• Why not to pay a host to convert your site to HTTPS
• An ultimate HTTPS checklist in the making
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Tips Tuesday – Cookbook Recipe Plugin, WP-Optimize Plugin, WordPress 4.7.1

January 10, 2017 by MaAnna Stephenson

Hello Happy Site Owners!
Tips this week include:
• New webmaster tutorials
• Busting the CloudFlare SSL myth
• Why new webinars and workshops are on the way for 2017
• Dramatically lower Google PageSpeed Insights Scores
• The future of SEO
• Why you might want to consider buying traffic in 2017
• Update on the PHPMailer Exploit
• WordPress 4.7.1 rolling out soon
• Update on the 3 big focus areas of WP development this year
• A warning on the new Cookbook Recipe plugin
• UpdrafPlus acquiring the WP-Optimize plugin
• An A2 Hosting Review
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Tips Tuesday – Town Hall Meeting, Chrome Warnings, Ad Blocker Buster

January 3, 2017 by MaAnna Stephenson

This week I’ve got a bunch of goodies for you and a special request at the end.
Tips this week include:
• BlogAid New Year Blowout
• Hottest Webmaster Skills for Designers in 2017
• The first ever BlogAid Town Hall Meeting
• A follow up on the PHPMailer Exploit
• Chrome begins issuing Unsecured Site Warnings
• How many sites really do run on WordPress
• A new ad blocker buster technology
• What’s new with the robots.txt file
• And a special request from me

Tips Tuesday – Holiday Deals, SEO Workshop, WP 4.7 Changes, Image Rules

November 15, 2016 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips this week include:
• BlogAid Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals are live
• Details on the new SEO Workshop that starts Dec 5
• 2 big changes coming in WordPress 4.7
• How to get your WordCamp US livestream ticket for free
• 4 super rules for using images on your site
• A content marketing question you need to ask that will help you create raving fans

Tips Tuesday – DIY SEO, WordPress 4.3 bugs, WishList Member Passwords

August 25, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

Tips include:
– discount coupons for the new DIY SEO course
– WordPress 4.3 causing high CPU load
– how to disable new User registration notification
– how the new WordPress password feature affects WishList Member and other membership plugins
– an invitation to let me know exactly what you need help with and how

Tips Tuesday – Big Bot Attack, Repurpose Content, Embed Google Maps

July 22, 2014 by MaAnna Stephenson

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include severely high bot attacks, completely disabling the XML-RPC function on your site, celebrating the return of a fun function in WordPress 4.0, how much a site should cost, the new robots.txt file tester, a super example of how to repurpose content, how wearable tech will change your marketing strategy, hiding your login username, the end of the free ride for Outlook users, how to value your time and set boundaries, putting street view back into embedded Google Maps on your site, working from home with distractions, and for dessert, a super Hangout on Air treat with one of my fave folks. So let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast.