Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:
• Wordpress coding standards upgraded
• Check your plugins
• Just say no to AI plugins
• How to get into AI Overviews – according to Google
• Google tests ads in AIO
• Better AI search platforms
• Must-read post on the decline of Google dominance, AI, and your security
• Celebrating a YouTube milestone by one of my clients
• Timestamps with Markers in Camtasia work!!
• Do the scary thing – a journey WAY out of my comfort zone
• A new way to support the free and helpful info you get on BlogAid

Tips this week include:
• Seasonal Mastermind in the DIY SEO Everywhere course this week
• Videos are now in AIO Search
• Why scripts work so well when making videos
• New video transcription tool I’m testing
• Adding timestamps and post content counts
• Sell sites for a profit
• Why I’m selling a new digital download on Gumroad
• Do not use the new GA4 tool!!!!!
• Where to get better analytics
• Why sites on Apache servers went down – and why my clients weren’t hit
• The hidden dangers of Vibe Coding

Tips this week include:
• UpdraftPlus package changes
• What it takes to prep a new YouTube channel for launch
• Instagram now being crawled by Google
• Why Google Search Console is useless now
• YouTube metrics are still accurate
• The AI Agent wars are here
• More AI Agents will be visiting your site than humans soon
• AI and emails – what to do
• Why I suggest you get rid of freebies
• Cautions when using AI Agents
• Bot and site hit security
• AI agent site security
• Why bots will soon rule the web
• Where to get real webmaster help for your site security
• A trip down blogger memory lane
• Why to rethink your online business model
• How to get new eyeballs now
• Why it’s time to evolve

Tips this week include:
• WordPress 6.8.2 releases today
• WordPress 6.9 due in December
• Social Pilot has been acquired – and why we care
• Plugin conglomerates rule
• Site security is not just about hacking anymore
• Bad bot security at Cloudflare
• Bad bot security at the Host
• Sites overwhelmed by new bad bot hits
• What we thing the new bad bots are after
• Why I’m glad to be at Iridium Hosting
• Hosts that are ripping folks off
• Designers need security too
• The AI browser wars are coming
• My favorite AIs
• Will AI browsers be better?
• Why to look beyond the shiny new stuff
• YouTube monetization policy changes that are good for us
• Backlash on AI voice ban
• How video will still rule – with examples

Tips this week include:
• New Site Setup tutorials for webmasters
• Hitting the top of Substack rankings
• Why to use Substack strategically
• Cloudflare toll on AI Bots
• Yoast Video SEO price increase
• Update on llms.txt file
• How I’ll be spending my summer of creating content
• Why there will be less competition for us on YouTube soon
• New TikTok USA version coming

Tips this week include:
• Tracking email open rates
• RSS feed to email – why not to use it
• Flip your time this summer
• Content Silo promotion
• Celebrating YouTube milestones
• Shorts get eyeballs – LOTS of them, and fast
• Watching your metrics works
• Try it and see – a path to success
• What you need to know about the FAIR project for WordPress

Tips this week include:
• Be sure you’re opening BlogAid emails
• Update on that huge leak of login credentials
• Why to check emails all over your site
• Hotlink protection tutorial
• Kadence Author Box tutorial
• YouTube Shorts workshop
• Yoast SEO fixed AI classes goof
• Why I’m checking into whether llms.txt files are a good idea or not
• Seeing more images in SERPs
• Why I’m doing siteless vlogging
• VEP3 coming to YouTube Shorts
• Canva adds VEO3 access
• Midjourney adds videos
• TikTok makes still images into videos
• Facebook makes all videos Reels
• YouTube Shorts get views!
• Why it’s plain that video is the future

Tips this week include:
• Making WP links can be buggy
• Last week’s internet outage
• Create videos in Canva workshop this week
• How a “just do it” mindset helped one client make a great video
• Important update to the Link in Bio page build workshop has been added
• DO NOT turn on the new AI feature in Yoast SEO
• Why I recommend not integrating any AI with your WP site
• Ad revenue moves to video – and surpasses all others combined
• How to get paid twice with video
• YouTube Posts now in Shorts – this is SO exciting
• Cookie Plugin list updated
• Discussion on social and pin plugins
• Where to place your social follow buttons
• A serious problem with media uploads and bots
• Kadence block high resource usage issue
• How to rebrand a site the right way
• Why to refocus a site instead of doing a rebrand