Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:
• New Site Audit Client Flash Challenges and why we’re doing them
• A GoDaddy data breach that may affect you, and an update on that report
• How to restore a plugin update to the previous version
• Mixed reactions to the Try Gutenberg invitation in WP 4.9.8
• My Gutenberg tutorial schedule
• What’s up with SiteGround no longer offering free cPanel migrations
• Results on that massive Google Algorithm update at the first of the month
• The settings I’m checking in Yoast SEO for category archive pages
• Recipe plugin tests almost finished

Tips this week include:
• A sneak peek at what’s coming from BlogAid for the rest of 2018 including 4 new courses
• Why hiring the help you need is a good idea
• What’s in WordPress 4.9.8 and the first thing you need to do after you update
• What’s in the latest Genesis update
• The huge Google Algorithm update that whacked some sites hard
• How to watermark your blog images, plus the pros and cons of it
• The message Facebook is really sending with the shutdown of their API for auto-posting
• A super post on the top reasons visitors leave your site and how to fix them

Tips this week include:
• The new BlogAid theme is live!!
• A new Happy Clients page with success stories that just blew me away
• My new Gutenberg posts have launched, and more on the way
• WordPress 4.9.8 releases today and how to turn off the Try Gutenberg invitation
• The reports I’m seeing of the latest hacker probing attempts and how to protect your site
• What has me nervous about a new site cloning feature from UpdraftPlus
• What’s up with Google testing a new layout for images with titles
• Finally! Some corroboration about why you need to stop chasing green dots in Yoast
• New schema markup for speakable news posts
• 4 ways to write better blog posts immediately

Tips this week include:
• A call for Happy Client stories
• New Gutenberg posts on the way
• Why you need to upgrade your hosting to PHP 7 right away
• A check to see if your backup solution is complete
• The Not Secure warning for non HTTPS sites rolls out with Chrome 68 today
• Who just bought Stone Temple Consulting, and what this means for SEO tips for us
• A very interesting interview with Joost de Valk on what the future holds for voice search
• Synonyms finally come to the Yoast SEO content analysis tool
• What the top 10 OWASP security holes are on your site, and an easy way to plug them
• A new migration tool from SiteGround and why you don’t want to use it
• 7 tips to get you unstuck with blogging and generating new ideas

Tips this week include:
• How theme design impacts site load speed
• The big changes I’m getting all of us site owners ready for, and when they will hit
• The new courses coming to the DIY SEO training
• WordPress 4.9.8 release schedule and what’s in it that you don’t want to use
• HostGator and Bluehost rumored to be down, and perhaps why
• The GDPR cookie plugin I see the most folks using
• A new place to get great free images for your blog and social media

Tips this week include:
• Tips for doing your own content revamp that make it so easy
• The SEO of deleting old content
• An update on the recipe plugin schema markup tests
• A site audit client story about how great it feels to know what you’re doing
• The hoohaa around the WordPress 4.9.7 security release and who I’m mad at about it
• How and why to turn off auto updates for WordPress, and what you have to be super vigilant about afterward
• What’s in the Genesis 2.6.1 recent release
• It’s confirmed! The Google speed update rolled out July 9, and what this really means for your site
• Why a voice app for your site might be in your future
• The reality of keyword research and why I don’t teach it
• 5 ways to get your blog post to go viral
• Why a writing style matters for your blog – and how to improve yours

Tips this week include:
• Why I’m doing a theme revamp on BlogAid even with Gutenberg rolling out soon
• New Flash Challenges coming to the DIY SEO course
• The high cost of putting off moving to a better host
• Foodie bloggers getting emails from Google Search Console for missing schema markup
• Yoast SEO 7.7 update has a new snippet editor
• StudioPress has been acquired by WPEngine and what that means for Genesis theme users
• An issue with the preview for Pinterest shares with the Shared Count plugin
• A new bug for the Cloudflare plugin when using PHP 7.2 at your host

Tips this week include:
• How much free site help from your host is costing you
• Live site audit and speed session for Webmaster Level 6 members
• How to renew your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on SiteGround if you use Cloudflare
• A new aggregate speed index from Google PageSpeed Insights
• Examples of the slimy SEO industry tricks that you’re competing with
• An update on the recipe plugin schema markup tests
• How to get more social shares on your blog posts and why this is good for SEO too
• How to jump on Google now letting us verify the Knowledge Graph it carries on us
• A site speed case study that shows you how to improve conversion rate
• The big news with a new online shopping sales tax law being passed
• 10 super unique blogging tips that will break you out of your rut and give you a fresh mindset