BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:

• BlogAid Holiday Sales are LIVE!

• Where the link to my Helpful Posts page is hiding

• A holiday fundraiser I may be setting up

• Why I’m once again modifying my office hours

• A surprising update on what my video SEO research revealed

• The schema markup the Astra theme uses

• Why case studies are so incredibly important

• WordPress 5.6 Release Candidates are out and what I’ll be testing

• What to look for when you migrate from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks

• What’s up with that email you got from Amazon S3

• Why the AS3 interface changes are making me crazy

• Big news about YouTube inserting ads into all videos

• Mediavine creates a mid-roll video ad placement and why you might not want to use it

• What I think about the Yoast Zapier integration

Tips this week include:

• BlogAid Holiday Sales are LIVE!

• Where the link to my Helpful Posts page is hiding

• A holiday fundraiser I may be setting up

• Why I’m once again modifying my office hours

• A surprising update on what my video SEO research revealed

• The schema markup the Astra theme uses

• Why case studies are so incredibly important

• WordPress 5.6 Release Candidates are out and what I’ll be testing

• What to look for when you migrate from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks

• What’s up with that email you got from Amazon S3

• Why the AS3 interface changes are making me crazy

• Big news about YouTube inserting ads into all videos

• Mediavine creates a mid-roll video ad placement and why you might not want to use it

• What I think about the Yoast Zapier integration

Tips this week include:

• Free Gutenberg webinar coming in a few weeks

• How I’m splitting up the niche site metrics I’m watching

• Why you need to jump super fast on the holiday sales post coming soon

• What I found on my client sites during my recent video SEO research

• The SEO issue I found on BlogAid

• Why I may hire a schema markup expert from Team Yoast

• The schema checks and fixes coming to the DIY SEO course

• Why I have to check out new schema markup validators

• What the WordPress 5.6 Beta 4 signals to me

• Why I’m not crazy about the release of PHP 8.0 at SiteGround

• The very serious concerns I have about Microsoft Clarity

• Why Google is dropping the word Webmaster and changing its blog domain

• A fix for the Edge browser’s issue with lazy load on iFrames

• The speed challenge when using iFrames for video embed when you run ads

Hello Happy Site Owners and Webmasters!

Tips this week include:

The deep dive I’m doing into extra video SEOWhy I have to make time to do woodworking postsThe price of successThe caveats and rewards of mixing pleasure and businessWhy I don’t monetize my passionsFinding your creative balanceWhat’s up with a rash of connection, purging, and image issues latelyMy first look at the new cPanel WordPress ToolkitWhat’s in the new Collections for Genesis BlocksA preview of Gutenberg as a full theme builderHow to take just a database or limited set of files backup in UpdraftPlus

Listen to the Podcast

Join me Live to Discuss Tips Tuesday

I hope you’ll join for tonight’s livestream at 8pm ET / 5pm PT on the BlogAid Facebook Page. It’s a great way to get the deeper story on what’s reported in Tips Tuesday. And, I almost always have breaking news for the day too. So come join us live for the party.

Replay

Who I Help

All tips, advice, and suggestions in this, and all BlogAid posts and tutorials, are intended to empower DIY site owners who are serious about making money with their sites and are not on hosting that is restrictive in what you can and can’t do with your site and hosting setup. If you have any doubts about what type of host you are on and if the tips I give will work there, see this post on What is Managed Hosting?

BlogAid Happenings

I sure hope you’re having a good week.

The weather in my neck of the woods has been perfect and I find that truly energizing.

And, I’m looking forward to a continuation of decent weather for my short vacation that I’ll be taking soon.

I’ll be deep in the woods and totally unplugged this coming weekend while I visit my brother who lives on a lake in the southern part of the state. It’s a beautiful drive too.

Deep Dive Into Extra Video SEO

Last week I started all of the research and testing into the extra schema markup for embedded videos.

This week I’m doing a deep dive into coordinating the SEO of videos that come from multiple sources, like video ads, videos in recipe cards, and more.

Then I’ll be starting my new tests on speed when videos are in use on the post.

It takes a LOT of deep digging to get all of these answers.

But it’s going to be well worth it as I will have a video SEO course like no other, and one that will be especially appealing to folks who run ads. Those video ads are very lucrative. But, those site owners also want to get their YouTube videos, as well as videos for social media platforms working for them too.

So, this is a rather complex thing to accomplish, and I will find how to make it all work together.

Making Time for HWA Posts

If you saw my recent post in the Hobby to Money-Making Site series titled Does a Try This, Try That Blog Strategy Work, then you know I’m 3 woodworking builds behind what I’ve been posting.

These past few weeks I’ve struggled to keep my new office hours and so that I can have a little time away from BlogAid and its client work to do other things that interest me, and have a wee bit of time away from my desk for at least half days.

And part of that time is hacking away at new posts for the builds I already have. While that means being at my desk, it also means that I’m making progress on these posts so I can get past them and begin implementing my new strate...

Tips this week include:

• The scary updates I did over the Halloween weekend

• Why you need to focus only on what makes you money

• How are you investing in your online business?

• Does a try this, try that blog strategy work?

• What to check for with Cloudflare having a few API connection issues

• Why seeing trackbacks and pingbacks suddenly appear has me concerned

• What’s up with 2 WordPress security releases back to back

• WordPress 5.6 Beta 3 just rolled out

• A call to take the WP 2020 survey

• Why you need to put migrating from Atomic Blocks to Genesis Blocks on your calendar now

• The difference in Atomic Blocks and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugins

• An official Block Patterns Directory is in the works

• And the Block Directory project gets a new team lead

• An update on an issue with the Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugin that got fixed

• Google’s ironic recommendation for your holiday sales pages

• Why HTTPS is table stakes in 2020

• Why HTTPS alone is not enough to please Google

• Do you even know what’s going on with your site? And why you need to know

Analytics feedback is a powerful way to determine what’s working and what’s not working with your content creation.

See how I chose what to publish on my woodworking blog and how analytics has helped me revamp my content calendar and blog focus.

Tips this week include:

• An update on switching BlogAid to Gutenberg

• Why I’m having to regroup on my end of year plans for BlogAid

• Great Gutenberg alternatives to republishing seasonal posts

• How Gutenberg makes it so easy to revamp your home page for the seasons

• How a consult can help you make a plan that makes you money faster

• What’s in the Astra 2.6.0 release and where to get more info

• What’s in the WP 5.6 beta release that I’m keeping an eye on

• How reading Tips Tuesday keeps you calm

• Why I’m delighted that block-based widgets will not be in WP 5.6

• Why the Gutenberg editor is powerful enough for now and we can wait for Phase 2

• Major changes to the Coming Soon plugin by Seedprod and what I’m using instead for maintenance mode

• How me and my webmasters help each other make money by saving time

• Why to hold off on installing the new Google Analytics code

• The exciting news of HTTP/3 with QUIC being in the Last Call phase

• What QUIC is and how it will speed up the whole internet

• The cutting edge speed tweaks you get on Cloudflare

• Why speed is about way more than adding a caching plugin

Tips this week include:

All new Site Services pages are on BlogAid, and who helped me create them

A reminder of why I don’t offer on-demand fix-it services

Why I had to overhaul my new rebranding service

Why my Webmaster Training course members get hired more

The Cloudflare tutorials are updated in the Webmaster Training course

Why I had to pull the trigger and flip BlogAid to a Gutenberg hybrid setup

How village opinions are like gold for your business

Why you need to make a plugins list

The new Google Analytics 4 has launched and why you need to keep your current analytics running too

What you need to know about Yoast and SEMRush teaming up for free keyword research

Bing launches a totally rebuilt Site Explorer

Update on what we’re finding in Bing Webmaster Tools

Changes to the way SiteGround handles domain-related email setup

The confusing HTTPS settings at SiteGround

A list of the hosts I can’t work with for audits

Tips this week include:

• New Bing Webmaster Tools tutorials have arrived

• New Google Web Stories tutorial section and live session

• Why I have to cut my workload a bit and my new office hours

• Fallout over the SiteGround WordPress support changes post

• Revamp of my hosting recommendations

• Which host is the latest to start charging for manual migrations and why this is a good thing

• Why you need to put a dollar value on expertise

• Authentication passwords are coming to the WP API sooner than expected

• Why free plugins are going to start dropping like flies

• Which new full theme editing elements coming to WP soon

• Updates to my WP database table prefixes list

• The major changes with the TinyMCE Advanced plugin

• Why I’m jumping up and down over the WP compatibility notice from UpdraftPlus

• Big podcast news from Google Podcast and the new Amazon Podcast services

• Why not to use image optimization plugins and what to do instead

• Why we won’t be using the new Automatic Platform Optimization feature from Cloudflare

Tips this week include:

• Bing Webmaster Tools tutorials are near to release

• Upcoming chat with Web Stories makers

• The Site Success Chat with Chas Greener replay is ready

• What’s up with recent email delivery issues

• Why you need to get off junk email providers

• The carrot that is in front of my horse that’s causing long hours

• Update on the Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg plugin causing massive file build up

• The Cloudflare plugin lost its mind for a little while

• A bombshell from SiteGround as they drop WordPress support

• Why I’m exciting about WordPress core finding a way to host Google fonts locally and what this means for plugin and theme devs and us

• A synopsis of the important live Q&A from Webpage Test and its new owner, Catchpoint