Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:
• No checkbox to turn off auto updates in WP 5.6
• State of the Word address this week on Dec 17
• Why you need to check your Grow Social Pro license
• Why I’m so happy with the new GTMetrix tester
• Why Google PageSpeed Insights is not an accurate tester
• Where Google gets its speed data about your site
• Update on Genesis Full Site Editing
• BlogAid holiday schedule
• Update on meeting with my video SEO clients for more testing
• What to do if you can’t see edits in preview
• A final word on getting errors when saving UpdraftPlus settings
• Why not to run end around your host security settings
• Why hosts are removing the WordPress Toolkit app in cPanel and what you need to check for

Tips this week include:
• See what’s new in WordPress 5.6 that rolls out tomorrow
• A potential issue with the new WordPress Toolkit settings in cPanel
• The important State of the Word Keynote address will be live streamed on Dec 17
• How to promote your content with audiograms
• Why some folks can’t update UpdraftPlus and the action we are taking with support
• How to get ready for Core Web Vitals becoming a ranking factor soon
• A reminder that HTTPS security headers are a Core Web Vitals metric
• My take on the new Crawl Stats Report in Google Search Console
• Why we’re not happy about GA4 being the new analytics default when new sites are added
• Genesis calling for Full Site Editor beta testers, and what this means for the framework
• Reminder there is still time to get in on the BlogAid Holiday sale discounts
• An update on the big SEO issue at BlogAid that has been fixed
• The new schema markup tutorials coming to the DIY SEO course over this
• The YouTube milestone reached for my woodworking site
• A great opportunity for you to get more eyeballs on your post with my Share the Joy post on Facebook
• Why I want to hear your thoughts about the MeWe social media platform

Tips this week include:
• BlogAid Holiday Sales are still running
• Free Gutenberg Webinar this Thursday, Dec 3 and everyone is welcome to attend live
• New tutorial for Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks Migration
• Update on the BlogAid SEO issue
• Why not to be a Yoast hater here
• WordPress 5.6 releases on Dec 8 and why we won’t be updating right away
• Who will get my special update instructions for WP 5.6
• When the new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials with the WP 5.6 features will be released
• Has SiteGround moved you to the new custom control panel?
• ModSecurity at our hosting has tightened the rule set
• The issue with UpdraftPlus that ModSecurity change made happen
• A blip of a security issue with cPanel
• Why you need separate accounts for hosting, domain, and email
• Why you need to upgrade to PHP 7.4 right now
• Why we won’t be using PHP 8.0 yet

Tips this week include:
• BlogAid Holiday Sales are LIVE!
• Where the link to my Helpful Posts page is hiding
• A holiday fundraiser I may be setting up
• Why I’m once again modifying my office hours
• A surprising update on what my video SEO research revealed
• The schema markup the Astra theme uses
• Why case studies are so incredibly important
• WordPress 5.6 Release Candidates are out and what I’ll be testing
• What to look for when you migrate from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks
• What’s up with that email you got from Amazon S3
• Why the AS3 interface changes are making me crazy
• Big news about YouTube inserting ads into all videos
• Mediavine creates a mid-roll video ad placement and why you might not want to use it
• What I think about the Yoast Zapier integration

Tips this week include:
• Free Gutenberg webinar coming in a few weeks
• How I’m splitting up the niche site metrics I’m watching
• Why you need to jump super fast on the holiday sales post coming soon
• What I found on my client sites during my recent video SEO research
• The SEO issue I found on BlogAid
• Why I may hire a schema markup expert from Team Yoast
• The schema checks and fixes coming to the DIY SEO course
• Why I have to check out new schema markup validators
• What the WordPress 5.6 Beta 4 signals to me
• Why I’m not crazy about the release of PHP 8.0 at SiteGround
• The very serious concerns I have about Microsoft Clarity
• Why Google is dropping the word Webmaster and changing its blog domain
• A fix for the Edge browser’s issue with lazy load on iFrames
• The speed challenge when using iFrames for video embed when you run ads

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Tips this week include:
• The scary updates I did over the Halloween weekend
• Why you need to focus only on what makes you money
• How are you investing in your online business?
• Does a try this, try that blog strategy work?
• What to check for with Cloudflare having a few API connection issues
• Why seeing trackbacks and pingbacks suddenly appear has me concerned
• What’s up with 2 WordPress security releases back to back
• WordPress 5.6 Beta 3 just rolled out
• A call to take the WP 2020 survey
• Why you need to put migrating from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks on your calendar now
• The difference in Atomic Blocks and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugins
• An official Block Patterns Directory is in the works
• And the Block Directory project gets a new team lead
• An update on an issue with the Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugin that got fixed
• Google’s ironic recommendation for your holiday sales pages
• Why HTTPS is table stakes in 2020
• Why HTTPS alone is not enough to please Google
• Do you even know what’s going on with your site? And why you need to know

Tips this week include:
• An update on switching BlogAid to Gutenberg
• Why I’m having to regroup on my end of year plans for BlogAid
• Great Gutenberg alternatives to republishing seasonal posts
• How Gutenberg makes it so easy to revamp your home page for the seasons
• How a consult can help you make a plan that makes you money faster
• What’s in the Astra 2.6.0 release and where to get more info
• What’s in the WP 5.6 beta release that I’m keeping an eye on
• How reading Tips Tuesday keeps you calm
• Why I’m delighted that block-based widgets will not be in WP 5.6
• Why the Gutenberg editor is powerful enough for now and we can wait for Phase 2
• Major changes to the Coming Soon plugin by Seedprod and what I’m using instead for maintenance mode
• How me and my webmasters help each other make money by saving time
• Why to hold off on installing the new Google Analytics code
• The exciting news of HTTP/3 with QUIC being in the Last Call phase
• What QUIC is and how it will speed up the whole internet
• The cutting edge speed tweaks you get on Cloudflare
• Why speed is about way more than adding a caching plugin