Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:
• Why I jumped on the Instagram video bandwagon with my first InShot video
• Video recipe SEO testing update
• Gutenberg Ninja tutorials underway – and a cool new thing I found
• Why I’m testing CleanTalk Anti Spam for both comments and forms
• What’s happening with my BB Hub members like:
o How to fix ConvertKit optins showing at the bottom
o Cloudflare block bot tests expanding
o Why where you host matters for seeing what’s hitting your site
o Upcoming mastermind for digital downloads
• Classic Editor plugin support extended and why you don’t need it
• The roadmap for WP 5.9
• Why you need to learn Gutenberg before your next theme revamp
• How the Customizer is causing load issues
• It’s time to get your free WordCamp US tickets for the online event

Tips this week include:
• It’s finally time to update to WP 5.8
• The What’s New in WP 5.8 tour is ready for you
• New Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are underway
• The Theme Speed Test post has been released
• See the newly revamped Site Audits page with all of the BB Hub Plus perks listed
• Videos in recipes SEO tests are underway
• One more reason to drop ShortPixel
• Why Google PageSpeed Insights uses a Moto phone on a Fast 3G connection
• Why BlogAid uses real-world tests for site speed – just like Google actually judges you on
• The future of e-comm trends to watch and how to get brand sponsorship now
• Shopify analytics are now in GA4
• How Cloudflare mitigated the largest DDoS attack in history
• Why you must secure all of your Smart devices immediately
• A peek into our future with Twitter’s BlueSky project

Tips this week include:
• BB Hub Plus Membership has launched
• Theme speed tests are complete – and when the post will be out
• What new tests and tutorials are underway
• Status on whether it’s time to update to WP 5.8 or not
• An overdue improvement to Kadence Blocks
• Issues with Pinterest hover buttons
• NameHero launches a private cloud service
• .com domain extension price increases 7% on Sept 1
• Is Google authorship back?
• Yoast has been acquired by EIG – sort of
• Automattic buys Titan, a pro Email Suite
• Where you can see a list of all major WP related acquisitions
• What the mid-year security report reveals that you should do to protect your site

Tips this week include:
• The deep rabbit hole I went down with video SEO this weekend
• Running niche sites entirely with vlogs
• I’m the only SEO that seems to know a big secret trick that I’ll teach you
• Status on our wait to update to WP 5.8
• New Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are underway
• The insane poll results from pro SEOs for nofollow sponsored tag use
• Ahrefs getting blocked and why that service will confuse you
• Google changes messaging on Page Experience no longer being a tie breaker
• Google simplifies Page Experience report and why it’s still worthless
• Why I’m thrilled that Team Yoast is working on persistent user settings for WP
• A popular GDPR cookie plugin turns into a paid service
• The best Canva alternatives for creating graphics fast

Tips this week include:
• More digital downloads and masterminds coming
• What I’m bummed about in the Video SEO testing
• An update on my effort to stop SEO agency bot crawls
• Why new sites need security too
• Update on UpdraftPlus not backing up for some folks
• Why I’m excited that the Gutenberg Block Pattern Directory is live
• The death of page builders
• Automattic acquires Pocket Casts
• Google finishes first phase of FLoC testing for alternative 3rd party cookies
• Why to set affiliate links to nofollow AND sponsored
• New list of approved Genesis child themes coming soon
• What designers think of the new theme.json styles file instead of CSS
• Which theme should you use?
• What to do before entering the design process these days
• A new look for cPanel that resembles Interworx
• Why me and more of my clients are switching to Interworx control panel
• Will we use YAT Emojis instead of URLs someday?

Tips this week include:
• Ecommerce for digital downloads mastermind this week
• 2 new tutorials for testing and fixing theme schema markup
• A post on whether your theme is destroying your SEO
• New boutique hosting is open to the public
• WP 5.8 issues reported
• UpdraftPlus free version is not backing up for some folks
• Mediavine requires JS exclusions in WP Rocket
• Are affiliate tracking cookies being phased out?
• Is Kadence behind or ahead in their theme philosophy?
• A new way to get your videos into Google Search
• A peek into our future

Tips this week include:
• We start our E-comm masterminds this week in the BB Hub
• An update on theme speed testing and which theme to use
• An update on theme SEO testing and new tutorials coming
• Why you should use a child theme instead of customizing on the framework
• An update on the recipe and how-to video SEO testing
• Why brand new sites need security audits too
• Why removing WP files is not enough to delete an abandoned site
• Why I delete sites at the old host after a migration
• Help with retiring a site properly
• The WP 5.8 release is today, and why we won’t be updating
• When I’ll be releasing a What’s New video tour of 5.8 and Gutenberg tutorials
• Clarity on the confusing image upload setting in Gutenberg that will save you time
• A super cool rotating gradient background for Gutenberg blocks
• A new domain alignment feature for MailerLite users
• Why you need to get your email off your hosting

Tips this week include:
• More BB Hub Masterminds coming up for Ecommerce
• 3 new YouTube tutorials added to the Video SEO Booster course
• Update on the theme SEO tests
• What are you wasting your time on today?
• A super infographic for video on social platforms
• Why not to ask your host to fix your slow site
• We’re coming to the final release candidates for WP 5.8
• Why I’m excited about the new Sketch Book drawing block in Gutenberg