BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:

• WordPress 5.4 will be out in one week

• New Gutenberg Ninja tutorials in the works

• New DIY SEO workshops in the works

• The difference in caching and optimization plugins and the order to do things to speed up your site

• How and why to prepare your computer for a sharp rise in cyber attacks

• Why to prepare your connected devices to prevent hack attacks

• How to prepare your site for a sharp rise in DDoS attacks

• How to change your Zoom settings to block trolls from showing porn in your public meetings

• My take on how we’ve been doing for the past week

• How sites and traffic have been doing

• How the blogging industry as a whole has been doing

• What I see coming on the other side of this situation

• Why makers are on the rise

• The new opportunities that abound

• An invitation to dream a little dream of the new world order that’s coming and your place in it

Tips this week include:

• A new post on what ModSecurity is and why you don’t want to turn it off permanently even if your host tells you to

• A new post on how to add Google Analytics and other script code directly to your site

• A new post on how to fix ModSecurity related errors when you try to add that script code

• The change of date for Part 2 of the Image SEO live workshop

• The new SEO workshops on the way for keywords and ranking

• A status update on the new clients I’m currently onboarding for site service work

• An opportunity for a Blab-like chat for those who are working from home now

• A surprise, and last minute addition to WP 5.4

• Serious improvement to downloading Google Search Console reports

Tips this week include:

• The radical differences in what the managed part of managed hosting means at different hosts

• Spring 2020 site quick checks are underway

• How to check if your SSL certificate has a bug and needs to be reissued

• One more reason not to use the WebP format for images

• The amazing hero support I get at NameHero hosting

• An update on how I’m changing the summary reports for my caching plugin speed tests that will result in easy-to-read graphs for us

• WordPress 5.4 RC1 is out and what that means

• 100 new Block Templates have been released on Gutenberg Hub

• On op ed on how much longer page builders can remain competitive in the block era

• Another proof that Google is crawling and indexing PDFs and why to get them off your site

Tips this week include:

• New site spring cleaning quick checks that are coming for Site Audit Plus clients

• New Instagram chat for Site Audit Plus clients on Friday

• DIY SEO course Links Workshop on Thursday

• Is blogging for dollars really worth it? See what happened that changed my mind about this

• Issues with hard coding Google Analytics

• See the latest update in the WP Fastest Cache plugin

• When to republish old content

• Whether it’s safe or not to update to Genesis 3.3

• Why to start using next-gen image formats, and which one I don’t recommend using

• What’s in the WordPress 5.4 beta 3 that just released

• What’s coming to WordPress 5.5 this summer

Tips this week include:

• Site and page SEO workshop this week

• The speed test help falling into my lap

• Progress on whole site editing coming to Gutenberg

• The WordPress 5.4 Beta 2 has been released

• Why we’ll all be grateful for the new WP notification system in the works

• Progress on native support for XML sitemaps coming to WordPress

Tips this week include:

• An update on what’s happening with my speed testing

• We’ll be covering global SEO site guidelines in our next DIY SEO live workshop Thursday

• Why you may want to revamp your site layout

• An upcoming Instagram chat with my Site Audit Plus clients

• The secret deals happening that will make our domain name prices go up

• What’s in the WordPress 5.4 Beta release and what was just a wild rumor

• The new Gutenberg features coming in WordPress 5.4 that I’m excited about

• The temporary issues with updating the Google Analytics Dashboard for WP plugin and what they stripped out of the free version

• The issues some folks are having with adding Google Analytics code directly to their site

• Why you need to update the Ninja Forms plugin immediately

• What’s really going on with SiteGround moving sites over to Google Cloud

• The new cookie blocking I’ve seen in both Firefox and Chrome this week

• A new star rating review snippet report in Google Search Console that recipe sites will want to know about

Tips this week include:

• The next 2 live sessions this week for the DIY SEO course on Technical SEO and rank tracking

• What’s up with so many things breaking right now

• Investing in your business for site success

• How you might be doing more harm than good to improve your site speed

• Why hosts are now contacting me for partnership opportunities

• Why I’m celebrating pinning to Pinterest

• What happened I when tried a new way of creating posts and videos

• Where and why to use the sponsored tag on your links

• What’s in the new Astra Themes 2.0 beta release

• The huge leap Genesis is about to make toward full Gutenberg support

• My take on a new bulk block converter plugin

• A follow up on the Chrome 80 third party cookie tracking changes

Tips this week include:

• Plugins to get off your site that we dumped last year

• Why I want you to invest in your own success and stop relying on me as the maid of your site

• The DIY SEO live workshops start this week

• Whether including lazy load in the upcoming WordPress 5.4 release is a good thing or not

• If you should get busy converting old content to Gutenberg blocks before support for the Classic Editor drops in 2021

• Why I’m sending you less emails, and why reading Tips Tuesday matters more than ever now

• Google has released a new Removal Tool in Search Console and what’s in it

• The Chrome 3rd party cookie tracking changes start this week

• Why you don’t want SiteGround to update you to PHP 7.3 automatically

• Help for moving to better hosting

Tips this week include:

• The DIY SEO Quick Start Challenge has begun

• More info about the cookie tracking fiasco coming on Feb 4 from Chrome 80

• An updated tutorial on changing to PHP 7.3 at your host and why you must do this now

• Whether organic traffic dropped after Google took away the 2nd post listing on page 1 if you are also in a Featured Snippet

• The structured data Google dropped support for and if the fault is with the Yoast SEO plugin

• A new Feature Plugin to natively add XML sitemap generation to WordPress

• What big changes we may see when WordPress 5.4 comes out

• A peek at how Gutenberg is becoming a full theme builder

Tips this week include:

• Why we’re going back to our original time for the livestream

• Interesting site speed case study I’m doing this week

• Where the encore of the Gutenberg webinar will be shown

• DIY SEO Quick Start begins this Thursday to prep for our live workshops

• What’s new from the dev of Social Pug

• Which speed tests I’m starting on this week

• Why you need to go directly to your WP login page to avoid a redirect

• Why you need to log out of your WP site

• Why it’s a mistake to think that Google alone is pushing us for better internet security

• The new unsecured warning Chrome will start showing this week

• Why 3rd party cookies are going to die and what this means for those who run ads on their site