Tips Tuesday

Website and WordPress tips, news and more.

  • Tips Tuesday – Genesis Pro, On Page SEO, Yoast Update, Gutenberg News

    Tips this week include:
    • Getting to the bottom of the DNS and SSL changes by cPanel
    • An update on YouTube API and Yoast Video SEO plugin issues
    • Deep dive into on-page SEO series of workshops begins this week
    • Why the price is going up on the DIY SEO course
    • Why I’m researching best ways to stream interviews
    • Upcoming webinar on basic theme design principles
    • Why I’m making video such a huge priority
    • How to safely update to Yoast SEO 14
    • The real story in the GoDaddy data breach last week
    • What the release of the new Genesis Pro launch means for site owners and designers
    • A free Gutenberg webinar is coming soon

  • Tips Tuesday – Video SEO, WP and Plugin Updates, Site Speed, Block Lab

    Tips this week include:
    • How my woodworking site is starting to pay off
    • Why I’m celebrating videos for the win
    • Is a Video SEO course coming to BlogAid?
    • DIY SEO workshop on Thursday for Special Formatting to get you on page 1 of Google
    • Why I retested Autoptimize and what I found
    • New theme speed tests coming
    • The DNS record and SSL certificate research I’m doing that will impact you
    • Why you need to update Ninja Forms
    • Status on the Yoast SEO update
    • What was in the WordPress 5.4.1 update
    • Why I can’t sleep without the extra protection in Cloudflare Pro
    • The difference in a major and minor update
    • The plugin you need to get rid of on your site
    • What hosts should and should not update for you
    • Why I’m excited about WPEngine acquiring Block Lab
    • Why you want to become a Gutenberg Ninja sooner rather than later

  • Tips Tuesday – Site Speed, Yoast SEO 14, Content Silo, Reseller Hosting, New Tutorials

    Tips this week include:
    • Why I’m so happy to be working with site speed developers
    • What you need to know about the difference in caching and optimization
    • How to build a content silo workshop this week
    • New WHM reseller account tutorials for webmasters
    • A sneak peek into my current research and testing and new tutorials coming
    • Why we won’t be updating to Yoast SEO 14.0 just yet
    • Will Google kill affiliate links?
    • Site and device hack attacks are on the rise and how to protect yourself
    • Why WordPress has announced the death of Dashicons and what’s replacing them
    • Why Gutenberg is the future of WordPress and why you want to get on that train now

  • Tips Tuesday – Best Caching Plugins, Gutenberg Tutorials, DIY SEO Workshops, WordPress Roadmap

    Tips this week include:
    • Best free caching and optimization plugins for 2020 case study released
    • A fix for inLinkz updating failed error
    • Updates to the Gutenberg Reusable Templates tutorial
    • Putting the power of a village to work for you
    • 2 DIY SEO workshops this week on keywords and ranking
    • eBay offering a free year on their platform for selling digital goods
    • Gradients coming to more Gutenberg blocks
    • The new Gutenberg choices coming soon that I don’t like
    • A roadmap for WordPress in 2020
    • How Gutenberg will change everything about theme creation

  • Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Tutorials, Keywords Workshop, Free ShutterStock Images

    Tips this week include:
    • New Gutenberg tutorials for WP 5.4 updates are live
    • DIY SEO live workshops resume this week with Keywords and Ranking Factors
    • How folks on Mediavine can easily donate unused ad space for COVID PSAs
    • How you can get free images and more from ShutterStock
    • It’s safe to update to WP 5.4 and the one caveat we’ve found
    • Major changes coming in Yoast SEO 14 and when it will roll out
    • 2 things you need to check on your SiteGround account immediately
    • The false positive SiteGround now gives on speed testers
    • How to check your email deliverability status
    • A super guide for creating a landing page that converts

  • Tips Tuesday – Speed Scores, Gutenberg Tutorials, Plugin Updates How-To

    Tips this week include:
    • A new livestreaming setup I’m using for Facebook
    • New safer and updated settings to my Zoom meetings
    • An update on client service work schedule
    • All the new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials that have been released
    • The correct date when our DIY SEO course workshops will resume
    • Why I have to take a day off and ways I’m recharging my batteries
    • Why we think WordPress unexpectedly updated when updating plugins
    • Tips for how to do your updates
    • Why you need to check and set your own site favicon since the WP 5.4 release
    • Big changes to how Lighthouse and Google PageSpeed Insights calculates your score

  • Tips Tuesday – WordPress 5.4, Gutenberg, Livestreaming, Genesis Design

    Tips this week include:
    • WordPress 5.4 rolling out today
    • Why you must see my post on what’s new in WP 5.4 so you won’t be thrown for a loop next time you go to the editor after you upgrade
    • Why there will be an insane amount of updates to the Gutenberg Ninja course
    • Why we’re taking a 3 week break instead of 2 from the DIY SEO live workshops
    • The new crazy livestream video I did on a live shop build, and asking for advice from you about it
    • A new post on why hotlink protection doesn’t actually stop scrapers from stealing images right off your site
    • Why YouTube is streaming in standard definition by default now
    • Why more folks are getting into video streaming now
    • 2 new courses for Genesis design

  • Tips Tuesday – Prevent Hack and DDoS Attacks, How We’re Doing Since COVID-19 Distancing

    Tips this week include:
    • WordPress 5.4 will be out in one week
    • New Gutenberg Ninja tutorials in the works
    • New DIY SEO workshops in the works
    • The difference in caching and optimization plugins and the order to do things to speed up your site
    • How and why to prepare your computer for a sharp rise in cyber attacks
    • Why to prepare your connected devices to prevent hack attacks
    • How to prepare your site for a sharp rise in DDoS attacks
    • How to change your Zoom settings to block trolls from showing porn in your public meetings
    • My take on how we’ve been doing for the past week
    • How sites and traffic have been doing
    • How the blogging industry as a whole has been doing
    • What I see coming on the other side of this situation
    • Why makers are on the rise
    • The new opportunities that abound
    • An invitation to dream a little dream of the new world order that’s coming and your place in it