Tips Tuesday

Website and WordPress tips, news and more.

  • Tips Tuesday – Death of Cookies, TLS 1.2 Warnings, New Bing Tutorials, Site Speed Tests

    Tips this week include:
    • Why we’re going back to our original time for the livestream
    • Interesting site speed case study I’m doing this week
    • Where the encore of the Gutenberg webinar will be shown
    • DIY SEO Quick Start begins this Thursday to prep for our live workshops
    • What’s new from the dev of Social Pug
    • Which speed tests I’m starting on this week
    • Why you need to go directly to your WP login page to avoid a redirect
    • Why you need to log out of your WP site
    • Why it’s a mistake to think that Google alone is pushing us for better internet security
    • The new unsecured warning Chrome will start showing this week
    • Why 3rd party cookies are going to die and what this means for those who run ads on their site

  • Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Webinar, Speed Tests, Themes, Mediavine Awards

    Tips this week include:
    • Why you need to get your site spring cleaning booked now
    • Free webinar this Thursday to see the power of Gutenberg
    • Why there will be a one week delay you won’t mind on starting the DIY SEO workshops
    • Why I’ll be making the data from my speed tests public this year
    • Who built all of the themes I’ll be using in those speed tests
    • Why the Toolset Blocks commitment to Gutenberg spells the death of page builders
    • What’s coming next to Gutenberg
    • Are you regularly checking your feedback data and why it’s critically important to do so
    • Is keyword research totally dead now?
    • Big congratulations to Mediavine on winning 2 Google Certified Publishing Partner Awards

  • Tips Tuesday – DDoS Attacks, Backup Check, SiteGround Migrations, Gutenberg Webinar

    Tips this week include:
    • Gutenberg Webinar is in the works
    • Live Pinterest chat with my site audit clients on Wednesday
    • The DIY SEO Jump Start Challenge begins soon ahead of our live workshops
    • SiteGround is doing internal migrations and what you’ll need to update
    • What to do if you want to move off SiteGround to better hosting
    • The DDoS attacks are ramping up and shutting sites down
    • How to check to ensure you have a full backup of your site
    • Upcoming release dates for all future WordPress major versions through 2021
    • The new Gutenberg features you won’t be seeing in my course for a while and why that’s a good thing

  • Tips Tuesday – Holiday Deals End Soon, SiteGround Migrations, Gutenberg Theme Builder

    Tips this week include:
    • Time’s running out fast on the BlogAid Holiday Deals – we’re down to the final days so get your goodies before Santa MaAnna packs her bag and they’re gone!
    • An invitation for you to give a little input on whether you’d listen the livestream from Tuesday evening as a podcast.
    • What’s in my tell-all post for the 2019 year in review for my hobby to money-making site
    • What’s in the 2019 year in review for BlogAid post and what’s coming for 2020
    • Why you’ll be receiving less emails from me
    • Why I was banned from a scrollsaw Facebook group
    • Why I got so mad in another Facebook group that I’m on a mission to do something about it
    • The surprise migrations happening at SiteGround with very little notice and what you need to change
    • The awesome perks my site audit clients get for free, like help with what’s happening at SiteGround
    • Why the WP devs are asking designers to rethink themes with Gutenberg
    • Why all designers need to follow the Make WordPress Design blog now
    • An update on progress with the new Block Directory and why I’m excited about it
    • And when I’ll be flipping more of my sites to Gutenberg

  • Tips Tuesday – Increased Spam, New Webmaster Tutorials, DIY SEO Jump Start

    Tips this week include:
    • Gutenberg webinar is coming soon
    • What new tutorials are up in the Webmaster Training for Designers course
    • When we will start the DIY SEO Jump Start checks and what new big thing is coming to the course
    • Time is running out on the BlogAid holiday deals, so get your goodies now
    • The continued uptick in spam that we’re experiencing and what it means for our site security
    • Why I was banned from a woodworking Facebook group that is a must read for all crafters and those who rely heavily on Pinterest for their traffic
    • What was in the WordPress 5.3.2 release
    • How to update to WordPress 5.3 if you haven’t yet
    • What’s up with the new checkboxes on reports in Google Search Console
    • What you should do if you get an Authenticated Origin Pull warning email from Cloudflare

  • Tips Tuesday – Site Owner Tips and Myth Busting

    Tips this week include:
    • Multiple tips and myth busting for DIY site owners
    • Why I had to mute a few Facebook groups
    • 11 new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are now live, including full page examples for home, landing, optins, and more
    • WordPress 5.3.1 is out
    • The difference in major and minor releases and which one auto updates
    • Why you need to get on the Cloudflare Pro for better security
    • Why security plugins don’t work and what they’re really doing to your hosting resources
    • Why you must get a site audit checkup
    • All of the site audit client perks you get for free, including where to find info I don’t release to the public
    • Which is the best hosting, and why most replies to that question are useless
    • The truth about why migrating to a new host is harder than it used to be
    • Checking on the Yoast SEO Search Index Purge plugin and why I think it may not be working and what to do about it
    • Why to stop using an incognito window to check ranking
    • Why you need to check your WP Fastest Cache settings now
    • Why I’m suggesting you embed Google Analytics code instead of using a plugin
    • The bot hits that Google Analytics is not counting that are costing you money
    • A check to see if you are using the WP Rollback plugin correctly
    • Why I suggest doing a full purge after plugin updates, and how to do it
    • What’s in the email you get from Amazon S3 for your backup file storage, and why not to freak out about it
    • A way to check that your backup is getting everything you need to fully restore your site

  • Tips Tuesday – Update WP 5.3, Gutenberg and Page Builders, NameHero is #1

    Tips this week include:
    • BlogAid courses are on sale for the holidays, as is hosting
    • The super fun I’m having with creating snazzy Gutenberg page templates and when they’ll hit the course
    • How to update to WordPress 5.3 and the special order you need to do things
    • What you need to delete after updating to WordPress 5.3
    • The progress reported on Gutenberg as a full theme builder
    • My test results for the GetWid Gutenberg plugin
    • A block-based theme proposal that is a must-read for all designers
    • Why so many designers are dead wrong about what Gutenberg can’t do
    • NameHero was just ranked the #1 host for 2020 in an independent case study
    • Why you must get your own backups and what happened to someone who trusted her host with it
    • Just how important the heading sizes you use can be for SEO – from a company that lost 10% of their revenue over it

  • Tips Tuesday – Easy Gutenberg, PHP 7.3, Site Speed, Personalized SEO

    Tips this week include:
    • The BlogAid Holiday sale on courses and site audits is still on
    • Where you can see a preview of the new Gutenberg landing page templates I’m building
    • How Gutenberg Made it Easy to Monetize My Site
    • A refresh on the DIY SEO course
    • What’s up with Google getting super serious about speed and why you need to pay attention
    • If you haven’t updated your PHP version to at least 7.2, you’ve now got a security risk on your site – and what to do about it
    • Why you need to check your PHP version even if you did update it, especially if you’re on SiteGround
    • What I’m seeing with bad bots pulsing and possibly priming for an attack
    • The new potential ghost bot hitting Google Analytics
    • Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 5.3 yet or not
    • How to disable the big image threshold in WordPress 5.3
    • A new post for webmasters with database table prefixes of popular WP plugins
    • My take on the Google Site Kit plugin and whether you should use it
    • What’s up with Google personalizing what you see in the Knowledge Graph and why it has all pro SEOs shaking in their shoes
    • A super roundup of everything you need to know about the big Bert update
    • And what prompted Yoast to hashtag #neveragain on Twitter