Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:
• A new post on what ModSecurity is and why you don’t want to turn it off permanently even if your host tells you to
• A new post on how to add Google Analytics and other script code directly to your site
• A new post on how to fix ModSecurity related errors when you try to add that script code
• The change of date for Part 2 of the Image SEO live workshop
• The new SEO workshops on the way for keywords and ranking
• A status update on the new clients I’m currently onboarding for site service work
• An opportunity for a Blab-like chat for those who are working from home now
• A surprise, and last minute addition to WP 5.4
• Serious improvement to downloading Google Search Console reports

Tips this week include:
• The radical differences in what the managed part of managed hosting means at different hosts
• Spring 2020 site quick checks are underway
• How to check if your SSL certificate has a bug and needs to be reissued
• One more reason not to use the WebP format for images
• The amazing hero support I get at NameHero hosting
• An update on how I’m changing the summary reports for my caching plugin speed tests that will result in easy-to-read graphs for us
• WordPress 5.4 RC1 is out and what that means
• 100 new Block Templates have been released on Gutenberg Hub
• On op ed on how much longer page builders can remain competitive in the block era
• Another proof that Google is crawling and indexing PDFs and why to get them off your site

Tips this week include:
• New site spring cleaning quick checks that are coming for Site Audit Plus clients
• New Instagram chat for Site Audit Plus clients on Friday
• DIY SEO course Links Workshop on Thursday
• Is blogging for dollars really worth it? See what happened that changed my mind about this
• Issues with hard coding Google Analytics
• See the latest update in the WP Fastest Cache plugin
• When to republish old content
• Whether it’s safe or not to update to Genesis 3.3
• Why to start using next-gen image formats, and which one I don’t recommend using
• What’s in the WordPress 5.4 beta 3 that just released
• What’s coming to WordPress 5.5 this summer

Tips this week include:
• Site and page SEO workshop this week
• The speed test help falling into my lap
• Progress on whole site editing coming to Gutenberg
• The WordPress 5.4 Beta 2 has been released
• Why we’ll all be grateful for the new WP notification system in the works
• Progress on native support for XML sitemaps coming to WordPress

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 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 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 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