Tips Tuesday

Website and WordPress tips, news and more.

  • Tips Tuesday – Links and SEO, WP 4.9 Beta 3, Great Content, Mini Courses

    Tips this week include:
    • What me and a client found in our After HTTPS Conversion check
    • Why we’re having a redo on a comment reply notification plugin test
    • What happens to your old comments when you change to a new User in WordPress
    • Stopping bots from running end around CloudFlare
    • WP Rocket tests are starting
    • New mini courses, workshops, and boot camp in the works
    • WordPress 4.9 Beta 3 released, and the dog doo doo in it
    • Google’s take on whether comments are really better on your site than on social media
    • How links in headers, footers, content, and navigation impact your SEO
    • The trick to finding the balance with titles that work for SEO, social media, and site visitors
    • Facebook ditches authorship
    • Whether Google bots support the HTTP/2 protocol and why we care
    • Do you know if your site is ADA compliant?
    • The 3 attributes of great content

  • Tips Tuesday – After HTTPS Services, Image Widgets, Get More Traffic

    Tips this week include:
    • New After HTTPS Services launched
    • 5 Ways to Create Image Widgets: That Won’t Slow Down Your Site
    • Update on our Comment Reply Notification Plugin tests
    • What’s up with the KRACK Wi-Fi vulnerability
    • Why I’m keeping a close eye on BuzzSumo being acquired by Brandwatch
    • Cool image gallery layouts in the MaxGallery plugin
    • What Gutenberg Means to the Future of WordPress
    • WordPress 4.9 Beta 2 Released
    • How to Make Time for Social Media
    • Why I’m Checking Out CoSchedule
    • Why an argument for using AMP falls short for most of us bloggers
    • How to Deal with Scope Creep on a Web Design Project
    • 7 Secrets For Getting Traffic To Your Blog
    • Whether You Should Add Push Notifications to Your WordPress Website

  • Tips Tuesday – Free Images, UX and SEO, WP 4.9 Beta, Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin

    Tips this week include:
    • Update on the Comment Reply Notification plugin tests
    • A video to see just how much a Pinterest widget slows down your site
    • Why we won’t be using the Gutenberg text editor when it rolls out
    • A new Gutenberg test feedback link
    • New SEO courses underway
    • Changes to the Webmaster Training courses
    • New services for after HTTPS switch help
    • What’s in the WP 4.9 Beta release
    • Major data breach at the Disqus comment service
    • How to protect your accounts and site from attacks like this
    • An epic must read post on the three marks of great content
    • A beginner’s look at UX and SEO
    • Why webmasters want to learn how to manage their sites from the command line
    • The big news with the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin
    • The best free and paid stock photo sites

  • Tips Tuesday – Page Builders, Lead Generation, Video Marketing

    Tips this week include:
    • BlogAid posts syndicated in The Daily Bolt
    • Live chats this week with DIY SEO and Webmaster Level 6 members
    • Comment reply notification plugin tests underway
    • Why you must switch away from the Fast Secure Contact Form plugin
    • A super beginner’s guide to Regular Expressions
    • How staying logged into your site is causing performance issues
    • Why there is no such thing as 3 top ranking factors for SEO and what to focus on instead
    • What’s new in Yoast 5.5
    • 5 easy steps for lead generation that every site owner should read
    • Cloudflare releases a new video streaming platform
    • How even 2 seconds of video watch time can radically increase your revenue
    • A super speed comparison of popular page builders

  • Tips Tuesday – New Gallery Widget, Keyword Research, Google Ranking

    Tips this week include:
    • Several updates to the BlogAid site
    • How to Hotlink Protect Your Images
    • Security patches in WordPress 4.8.2
    • New gallery plugin coming in WordPress 4.9
    • What JavaScript framework agnostic approach to building Gutenberg means for you
    • Yoast weighing in on the new JavaScript framework
    • A deep keyword research process to attract more customers
    • The trick I think that got one of my posts into Google’s Knowledge Graph
    • 10 things that don’t directly affect your Google ranking
    • More on Facebook dropping organic reach for slow sites
    • New data in WebPage Test for better performance

  • Tips Tuesday – Vanity Metrics, Google Analytics for Non-Geeks, TinyMCE Plugin Throwback

    Tips this week include:
    • Outsourcing when there’s no ROI
    • WordPress drop REACT and is rebuilding Gutenberg
    • What’s up with Gutenberg and structured data?
    • Throwback plugin will be released with Gutenberg, and will TinyMCE Advanced work with it
    • Super helpful WordPress keyboard shortcut keys list to help you work faster
    • Why you need to stop focusing on vanity metrics
    • Help for non-geeks with Google Analytics
    • A post I’m blowing out of the water for best CDN comparisons
    • Why I’m adding detection of HTTPS trickery to my site audit checklist

  • Tips Tuesday – Why Drop WWW, SVG Images and SEO, Equifax Website

    Tips this week include:
    • HTTPS and WWW or Non: Which is Best to Use?
    • Plugins affected by SWFUpload being removed from WP core
    • An easy way for you to get rid of old plugins on your site and why you need to
    • Plans for large scale testing for the Gutenberg Text Editor
    • Update to WP Fastest Cache settings
    • What’s new in Yoast SEO 5.4
    • What’s up with the new WP site Equifax is using for affected clients
    • Why there’s no need for forced HTTPS regex code on converted sites
    • What you need to know about the new SVG image type for better SEO
    • 6 awesome tools for running social media contests

  • Tips Tuesday – Free Images, Ad Plugins, Push Notifications

    Tips this week include:
    • Gutenberg at version 1.0 – See what it can do
    • New WordPress Documentation: Goodbye Codex, Hello HelpHub
    • Reminder to Update Your Text Widgets
    • WP Fastest Cache Not Clearing
    • New Minimum PHP version requirement for plugins
    • What to do if Your Site’s on an Old PHP Server
    • 15 top free photo websites for your online projects
    • Image Optimization Tutorial
    • Best Option for Website SEO: Wix vs. Squarespace vs. WordPress vs. Weebly
    • Why Your Analytics Data is Wrong
    • AdRotater Plugin Tutorial – Good for More Than Ads and the plugin I’m using
    • A Guide to SMS and Push Notifications for WordPress
    • Push Notification Plugins and Caveats