Tips Tuesday

Website and WordPress tips, news and more.

  • Tips Tuesday – DIY SEO, Keywords for SEO, Site Speed

    Tips this week include:
    • The Gutenberg Blocks I’ve been checking into
    • A new DIY SEO Booster Program launching soon
    • An update on my joyful progress with Heartwood Art
    • A reminder to delete WP-Optimize
    • What’s up with Google indexing podcast feeds now
    • Why you should mix in synonyms and related keywords with your focus keyword
    • An update on the disk overage issue caused by Pretty Links
    • Major issues at A2 Hosting
    • Updates to the GTMetrix site performance checker
    • How to test your site speed accurately

  • Tips Tuesday – Cloudflare, cPanel, Image Optimization, Database Cleaner, Gutenberg Blocks

    Tips this week include:
    • Update on new Cloudflare speed tests
    • The Gutenberg Ninja course is closing on Teachable and a big discount code for extended time on the new home at the BlogAid Learning Center
    • Why I was so relieved to hear that NameHero hosting is sticking with cPanel
    • What’s up with SiteGround’s new control panel
    • Why Squoosh has become my image optimization tool of choice
    • My take on the latest update from Mediavine on their new Trellis theme framework
    • Why I’m concerned about Genesis adding features as plugins for their theme framework
    • Why I won’t be using WP-Optimize to clean databases anymore, and my new recommendation
    • The new Blocks Admin Tab I’m so excited about coming to WordPress
    • How an Experimental Blocks Area plugin could radically change the future of theme design

  • Tips Tuesday – Birthday Party, Plugins Pulled from Repo, Site Security Threat Increase

    Tips this week include:
    • It’s my birthday – come celebrate with me tonight
    • A new DIY SEO challenge coming soon
    • All the great news about my hobby to money-making site journey
    • What’s up with the Ultimate Nofollow plugin being pulled from the WP plugin repository
    • And same with the Duplicate Page plugin being pulled too
    • Why you need to check your PHP version before the end of the year
    • Graphs showing the extreme increases in site security threats since 2018
    • Why you need to check your site security after a theme redesign

  • Tips Tuesday – Better Hosting, Death of Google Traffic, Video Marketing, Chrome Ad Filter

    Tips this week include:
    • The Super Summer Sales Event only has a few days left to get big discounts
    • What I did over the July 4th weekend that got me unstuck and moving forward again
    • A new Google integration that may show up in our favorite SEO plugin
    • An op-ed on the death of search traffic from Google and what to focus on instead
    • Another article and why search traffic may not be dead after all
    • What you need to know about the Chrome Ad Filter going global today
    • Why I signed up for a new Video Marketing Summit in August that is on sale through today
    • A follow up on the massive cPanel price increase and what it means for our hosting
    • More hosting partnerships are in the works and the trend this is setting
    • Why I’m so silly happy at NameHero hosting these days and the special things they and other plugin devs do to help us all have better sites
    • An update on the rare, but massive Cloudflare outage last week and what I’m looking for in the changes

  • Tips Tuesday – Huge Sale, Ranking Factors, Blog Post Ideas, Email Marketing

    Tips this week include:
    • Super Summer Sales Event is underway
    • Why you need to get your site services request in now!
    • What’s in the new tutorials for DIY SEO, Gutenberg, and Webmaster Training for Designers
    • The ranking factors we’re discussing in our live chat today in the DIY SEO group
    • What email marketing platform is best to use
    • Why some of you need to jump on voice activated search right now
    • Nine questions that will give you tons of social media and blog post ideas

  • Tips Tuesday – Genesis 3.0, Affiliate Program, XML Sitemaps, Gutenberg Course Extensions

    Tips this week include:
    • Webmaster Training for Designers is still on sale
    • New extensions on the Gutenberg Ninja course are now available to all
    • New discount codes for existing BlogAid clients and members are now available
    • A new affiliate program is coming to the BlogAid Learning Center
    • You better get in now for site services, my calendar is filling up for July
    • More info on XML sitemaps coming to the WordPress core
    • Why you don’t want to use Google AMP to speed up your site
    • We’re saying bye bye to the preferred domain setting in Search Console
    • What Matt Mullenweg said in his keynote at WordCamp Europe
    • How Genesis 3.0 broke a few sites
    • 3 tips for making your site maintenance chores better and easier
    • Tips for using online video in business
    • Huge news about WP Engine’s acquisition of Flywheel hosting
    • 3 ways to share links on Instagram and what I’m including on the Gute course for it

  • Tips Tuesday – Designer Training, WP 5.2.2, Gutenberg Course Updates

    Tips this week include:
    • Huge sale to celebrate the grand re-opening of the Webmaster Training site
    • The new specialty block suite and theme I’m checking out for the Gutenberg course
    • A new tutorial in the Gute course for putting text links on image galleries
    • What I’m doing to speed up BlogAid ahead of my annual site audit
    • Why not to use the Shareaholic plugin
    • How I got unstuck with my hobby to money-making site and put it back on track
    • What’s in the WordPress 5.2.2 release that is rolling out today
    • Why XML Sitemaps coming to the WordPress core is such a big deal, and who’s involved in making it happen
    • What’s being served up in the new Gutenberg Snackbar

  • Tips Tuesday – SEO, Gute Course, Caching, Social Share, and Contact Form Plugins

    Tips this week include:
    • Special discount celebration on the Grand Re-Opening of the BlogAid Learning Center
    • Why I’m giving another free month of access on the Gutenberg Ninja course
    • Where to access the Gute course during this changeover
    • A HUGE thank you to my membership site revamp team
    • How things are going at my new host and why I’m so damned impressed with them
    • Why I switched away from Contact Form 7 to a more modern form plugin and how Formidable Forms met all of my criteria
    • The two big plugins bequeathed to WordPress recently
    • What’s in the Yoast SEO 11.3 update and why you may not want to use it
    • The update in WP Fastest Cache that is my fault and what to do with it
    • Why we’re tickled about more user requested features come to Social Pug
    • A tip about what to do right after you update plugins
    • What the new Google Rich Results Tester checks
    • Why we’re silly happy about more diversity of domains in search
    • Why that diversity is great for videos too
    • What’s coming in the Genesis 3.0 release in a couple of weeks