Tips Tuesday

Website and WordPress tips, news and more.

  • Tips Tuesday – DDoS Attack, PHP 7.2, TLS Upgrade, Storify, WP Spamshield

    Tips this week include:
    • Two new comment reply notification plugin tutorials
    • DIY SEO survey results livestream this week
    • Webmaster tutorial updates for HTTPS
    • How the privacy policy changes at WP.com and new GDPR regulations for the EU affect you
    • Why there is a bright economic future for Gutenberg devs and designers
    • What I think about the threat of WordPress Attrition over Gutenberg
    • What’s up with WP Spamshield moving to a premium plugin
    • Is the biggest DDoS brute force attack in history underway right now?
    • What you need to know about the TLS upgrade deadline coming from Google
    • Getting your site ready for Google’s Mobile First Indexing
    • What everybody needs to know about PHP 7.2
    • What you need to do before Storify shuts down this spring

  • Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Buzz, Mobile and Voice Search Stats, Yoast 5.9

    Tips this week include:
    • SEO Workshop session outline posted
    • New Facebook group for DIY SEO members
    • New email templates for BlogAid
    • Special thank you to Denise Wakeman for a great visibility challenge
    • Just released video of Morten’s Gutenberg presentation at WordCampUS
    • Why Jason Pollock of CalderaForms is so excited about Gutenberg
    • A proposed start on a plugin compatibility check for Gutenberg
    • The economic impact of Gutenberg rollout on devs, designers, and users
    • How to avoid Gutenberg transition chaos
    • Why you shouldn’t wait on Gutenberg to design your next theme
    • Plugins are getting an active install graph in the repo
    • What’s in the newest 5.9 version of Yoast SEO
    • A glimpse at all of the Google SEO changes for November
    • What Sprout Social acquiring Simply Measured means for you and me
    • The Moz SEO reader survey results are in and they are very interesting
    • Stats on the rise of mobile and voice activated search

  • Tips Tuesday – SEO and Traffic for 2018, Page Builders, GTMetrix

    Tips this week include:
    • BlogAid Holiday Specials Continue
    • Why you need to watch the updated DIY SEO tutorials
    • The big traffic changes coming in 2018
    • Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 4.9 yet
    • Which page builder plugin is calling it quits and why
    • A peek at SEO for 2018
    • Workarounds for a page template bug in WP 4.9
    • What I found while searching in the new WP 4.9 code editor
    • New features at the GTMetrix online tester
    • Which host has been doing emergency maintenance for days
    • Why WordFence is rebranding as Defiant
    • The fun way CloudFlare creates truly random encryption

  • Tips Tuesday – Holiday Specials, WordCampUS, FireFox Quantum Browser

    Tips this week include:
    • The BlogAid Holiday Specials are here!
    • The end of the Tips Tuesday live recap
    • Bugs in the new FireFox Quantum browser that will affect webmasters
    • Details on WordCampUS coming up in December
    • Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 4.9 or not
    • What’s up with all the internet connection issues
    • What popular theme builder doesn’t convert to HTTPS
    • Why the Really Simple SSL Pro plugin is a rip off
    • An open survey on what you want to learn most about SEO

  • Tips Tuesday – WordPress 4.9, SEO Ranking, Instagram Dominates

    Tips this week include:
    • A fun video tour of what’s new in WordPress 4.9
    • DIY SEO course updates
    • A preview of what will be included in the next SEO Workshop
    • An update on the new Google Analytics and Search Console Courses
    • What’s up with SSL certificates that can’t auto renew
    • Why WP-Spamshield was pulled from the WP plugin repository
    • A new jpg compression tool in the works
    • Why designers hate Gutenberg but shouldn’t and what site owners need to know about this
    • A new guide on local SEO ranking factors for 2018
    • 4 ways to shift your thinking to focus on your audience
    • 12 types of awesome visual content for your blog posts
    • How shopping on Instagram will dominate this holiday season and why Pinterest folks need to care

  • Tips Tuesday – Link Building , Cache Preloading, Comment Reply Plugins

    Tips this week include:
    • What’s up with all the internet and site outages
    • Best comment reply notification plugins results are in
    • Revamp of the DIY SEO course underway
    • What I discovered while making the WP Rocket tutorials
    • Scary security issues with one ad network
    • What’s going into and coming out of core in WordPress 4.9
    • A serious discussion about WP core using iFrames going forward
    • The top 5 link building methods for 2018 that everyone should read
    • Tips for how to show up better in local search results
    • How to target different generations on social media and why you should

  • Tips Tuesday – Plugin Test Results, WordPress Survey, EU Plugin Standard

    Tips this week include:
    • Why there’s new music on Tips Tuesday
    • More of what I’m finding in After HTTPS checks and the big thing missing from the all
    • Why I decided to use Buffer instead of CoSchedule for now
    • Wrapping up the Comment Reply Notification plugin tests
    • Update on my new WP Rocket plugin tests
    • WordPress 4.9 beta 4 released and what’s not in it, thankfully
    • Confirmation on whether TinyMCE Advanced will work with Gutenberg
    • Results of 40 end users trying out Gutenberg – a case study from Yoast
    • Why you need to add your 2 cents on the new WordPress survey
    • What’s in the PHP 7.2 release coming soon
    • Why the new EU plugin standard will be of interest to those who run ads
    • The Postman SMTP plugin is now under new management
    • How to get your site ready for Google’s Mobile First Index
    • A new single optin default at MailChimp
    • My results with the new Sonar testing tool from Microsoft
    • Why you get radically different results with different online testers
    • The retirement of FireFox Firebug