Tips Tuesday

Website and WordPress tips, news and more.

  • Tips Tuesday – Cloudflare Tutorials, Speed Posts, Mobile-First Indexing

    Tips this week include:
    • New Cloudflare Tutorials
    • A roundup of posts on speed and things you can do to make your site fast right now
    • Why Voice Search will soon be the norm
    • What mobile-first indexing is and how it works
    • What I discovered about Yoast SEO premium redirects that I don’t like
    • A monster list of GDPR plugins
    • How Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub might affect future plugin development

  • Tips Tuesday – Site Speed, SEO Ranking Drops, Great Photography, Video Embeds

    Tips this week include:
    • What we’re finding in site audits
    • Update on resuming Webmaster speed tutorials and live sessions
    • What’s coming down the pike for the DIY SEO course
    • Alternatives for Social Warfare
    • Why you may want to consider switching to NameCheap as your domain registrar
    • Why you need to check your Yoast SEO settings for Media Attachments immediately
    • Why that Yoast SEO bug was not solely responsible for a drop in rankings for some folks
    • A super post on product photography that all craft/lifestyle/foodie bloggers will like
    • The importance of photojournalism and entertaining on your blog
    • A whole bunch of helpful image tips, including a way to test them for speed
    • Why video is so important to bloggers
    • Tips about embedding videos on your site

  • Tips Tuesday – Site Speed Deadline, WordPress Updates, GDPR, Encrypt Backup Files

    Tips this week include:
    • New post on why EU country blocking won’t work for GDPR compliance
    • New post on the raging debate about IP addresses and cookies that will impact all online biz
    • Why I have to keep a GDPR meeting private with just my site audit clients and webmasters
    • Why you need to get your request in now for site speed to beat Google’s July deadline
    • Why you must take control over WordPress updates
    • Why Yoast SEO tweaked the meta description length again
    • Update on new structured data for recipes that could bring you tons more traffic
    • A new extension for Chrome that you don’t want to tell anybody about
    • Why encrypting your backups are a requirement now
    • Update on how to detect cookies you have in use on your site

  • Tips Tuesday – Recipes in Google Assistant, GDPR, Unused Plugins

    Tips this week include:
    • A new GDPR Plugins and Services post
    • A couple of super quick and easy GDPR related tasks to do
    • Celebrating two of my Scratched to Published clients launching their new sites soon
    • An indicator of what’s to come with WordPress cleaning house on unused plugins
    • How to easily make it through the major transition with plugins that we are in right now
    • A super tutorial for designers on Gutenberg in Genesis
    • What you need to know about Gutenberg as a site owner that will keep you calm
    • 5 ways to encourage more comments on your blog posts that are easy to do
    • Why you need to send your recipes to Google Assistant right away

  • Tips Tuesday – GDPR, Google Assistant, WordPress 4.9.6, Free Site Success eBook

    Tips this week include:
    • A whole series of GDPR posts and more on the way
    • Why you need to jump on getting your email list GDPR compliant now
    • A new, free ebook I’m working on and will have for you soon
    • WordPress 4.9.6 is due out this week with new GDPR Tools
    • How you can get up-to-the-minute news from me
    • Why I’m trying to curb my excitement about my fave fix-it guy possibly returning
    • Is the hoohaa finally over with the Social Warfare plugin and is it safe to update now?
    • Which resource hog plugin I recently tested that will kill your page load speed
    • Google makes meta descriptions in SERPs short again and what you should do about it
    • Why Google Assistant taking center stage at the I/O conference is huge news for you
    • What’s up with Yoast SEO adding caching to images

  • Tips Tuesday – Speed Posts, GIMP Images, GDPR Plugin, Using Free Gmai

    Tips this week include:
    • The new speed post series has launched
    • Site audit workshops begin this week for Webmaster Training members
    • Whether you should add special HowTo schema markup to your posts yet
    • Why I’m so excited about Google expanding Featured Snippets with a drop-down
    • What’s up with Google Analytics and GDPR compliance
    • A new Cookiebot plugin for GDPR compliance I’m looking into
    • Cloudflare adds super new protections to their WAF
    • Why to get your email off your hosting and how it saved one of my clients
    • Whether you should use a free Gmail account for your main site contact
    • How to backup your Gmail inbox to another Gmail account, including GSuites
    • How to prepare your content for extended reality
    • What’s in the new version of GIMP for image creation and optimization

  • Tips Tuesday – Disable Gutenberg, Speed Post Series and Tutorials, MediaVine

    Tips this week include:
    • Site speed post series launching this week
    • New Webmaster caching plugin tutorials released
    • The hoohaa still going on with the MediaVine plugin and loosing HTTPS secure status
    • A new plugin that will disable Gutenberg completely
    • The Gutenberg nag that will be coming in WordPress 4.9.6
    • Why you need to start checking plugin update notes
    • Why getting in on Google Voice Search is more important than ever
    • Why Google is giving podcasts some extra exposure
    • A new test on how well longer meta descriptions are working out in Google SERPs
    • A GDPR tutorial on how to make your MailChimp signup forms compliant
    • How SiteGround is preparing for GDPR compliance
    • Whether your site needs a Terms and Conditions page and what should be on it
    • Why you need to log out when you’re not active in your WordPress site
    • What the death of SquirrelMail in cPanel means for us

  • Tips Tuesday – Changes to GDPR, MediaVine, Cloudflare, SEO, PHP 7.2

    Tips this week include:
    • Why page weight is the big factor in site speed and why you need to reduce it
    • Update to the Cloudflare Page Rules tutorials that affected my member site access
    • What MediaVine ad network users need to check on their sites right now
    • Which hosting failed when a major ice storm hit Michigan this weekend
    • SiteGround removes a blocking filter for WP Rocket users
    • Why you need to test going up to PHP 7.2 soon
    • What SSL related issues a new version of cPanel is going to cause
    • Why to check your email list service for GDPR compliance
    • The new GDPR compliance tools coming in the WordPress core this month
    • What steps you may need to take, or not, for GDPR if you’re running ads
    • How to republish old blog posts so both Google and readers are happy with you
    • A refresher on SEO basics that 80% of my clients were missing, and I bet you are too