BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:

• Why you need to get your site spring cleaning booked now

• Free webinar this Thursday to see the power of Gutenberg

• Why there will be a one week delay you won’t mind on starting the DIY SEO workshops

• Why I’ll be making the data from my speed tests public this year

• Who built all of the themes I’ll be using in those speed tests

• Why the Toolset Blocks commitment to Gutenberg spells the death of page builders

• What’s coming next to Gutenberg

• Are you regularly checking your feedback data and why it’s critically important to do so

• Is keyword research totally dead now?

• Big congratulations to Mediavine on winning 2 Google Certified Publishing Partner Awards

Tips this week include:

• Gutenberg Webinar is in the works

• Live Pinterest chat with my site audit clients on Wednesday

• The DIY SEO Jump Start Challenge begins soon ahead of our live workshops

• SiteGround is doing internal migrations and what you’ll need to update

• What to do if you want to move off SiteGround to better hosting

• The DDoS attacks are ramping up and shutting sites down

• How to check to ensure you have a full backup of your site

• Upcoming release dates for all future WordPress major versions through 2021

• The new Gutenberg features you won’t be seeing in my course for a while and why that’s a good thing

Tips this week include:

• Time’s running out fast on the BlogAid Holiday Deals – we’re down to the final days so get your goodies before Santa MaAnna packs her bag and they’re gone!

• An invitation for you to give a little input on whether you’d listen the livestream from Tuesday evening as a podcast.

• What’s in my tell-all post for the 2019 year in review for my hobby to money-making site

• What’s in the 2019 year in review for BlogAid post and what’s coming for 2020

• Why you’ll be receiving less emails from me

• Why I was banned from a scrollsaw Facebook group

• Why I got so mad in another Facebook group that I’m on a mission to do something about it

• The surprise migrations happening at SiteGround with very little notice and what you need to change

• The awesome perks my site audit clients get for free, like help with what’s happening at SiteGround

• Why the WP devs are asking designers to rethink themes with Gutenberg

• Why all designers need to follow the Make WordPress Design blog now

• An update on progress with the new Block Directory and why I’m excited about it

• And when I’ll be flipping more of my sites to Gutenberg

Tips this week include:

• Gutenberg webinar is coming soon

• What new tutorials are up in the Webmaster Training for Designers course

• When we will start the DIY SEO Jump Start checks and what new big thing is coming to the course

• Time is running out on the BlogAid holiday deals, so get your goodies now

• The continued uptick in spam that we’re experiencing and what it means for our site security

• Why I was banned from a woodworking Facebook group that is a must read for all crafters and those who rely heavily on Pinterest for their traffic

• What was in the WordPress 5.3.2 release

• How to update to WordPress 5.3 if you haven’t yet

• What’s up with the new checkboxes on reports in Google Search Console

• What you should do if you get an Authenticated Origin Pull warning email from Cloudflare

Tips this week include:

• Multiple tips and myth busting for DIY site owners

• Why I had to mute a few Facebook groups

• 11 new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are now live, including full page examples for home, landing, optins, and more

• WordPress 5.3.1 is out

• The difference in major and minor releases and which one auto updates

• Why you need to get on the Cloudflare Pro for better security

• Why security plugins don’t work and what they’re really doing to your hosting resources

• Why you must get a site audit checkup

• All of the site audit client perks you get for free, including where to find info I don’t release to the public

• Which is the best hosting, and why most replies to that question are useless

• The truth about why migrating to a new host is harder than it used to be

• Checking on the Yoast SEO Search Index Purge plugin and why I think it may not be working and what to do about it

• Why to stop using an incognito window to check ranking

• Why you need to check your WP Fastest Cache settings now

• Why I’m suggesting you embed Google Analytics code instead of using a plugin

• The bot hits that Google Analytics is not counting that are costing you money

• A check to see if you are using the WP Rollback plugin correctly

• Why I suggest doing a full purge after plugin updates, and how to do it

• What’s in the email you get from Amazon S3 for your backup file storage, and why not to freak out about it

• A way to check that your backup is getting everything you need to fully restore your site

Tips this week include:

• BlogAid courses are on sale for the holidays, as is hosting

• The super fun I’m having with creating snazzy Gutenberg page templates and when they’ll hit the course

• How to update to WordPress 5.3 and the special order you need to do things

• What you need to delete after updating to WordPress 5.3

• The progress reported on Gutenberg as a full theme builder

• My test results for the GetWid Gutenberg plugin

• A block-based theme proposal that is a must-read for all designers

• Why so many designers are dead wrong about what Gutenberg can’t do

• NameHero was just ranked the #1 host for 2020 in an independent case study

• Why you must get your own backups and what happened to someone who trusted her host with it

• Just how important the heading sizes you use can be for SEO – from a company that lost 10% of their revenue over it

Tips this week include:

• The BlogAid Holiday sale on courses and site audits is still on

• Where you can see a preview of the new Gutenberg landing page templates I’m building

• How Gutenberg Made it Easy to Monetize My Site

• A refresh on the DIY SEO course

• What’s up with Google getting super serious about speed and why you need to pay attention

• If you haven’t updated your PHP version to at least 7.2, you’ve now got a security risk on your site – and what to do about it

• Why you need to check your PHP version even if you did update it, especially if you’re on SiteGround

• What I’m seeing with bad bots pulsing and possibly priming for an attack

• The new potential ghost bot hitting Google Analytics

• Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 5.3 yet or not

• How to disable the big image threshold in WordPress 5.3

• A new post for webmasters with database table prefixes of popular WP plugins

• My take on the Google Site Kit plugin and whether you should use it

• What’s up with Google personalizing what you see in the Knowledge Graph and why it has all pro SEOs shaking in their shoes

• A super roundup of everything you need to know about the big Bert update

• And what prompted Yoast to hashtag #neveragain on Twitter

Tips this week include:

• BlogAid Holiday Deals are live!!!!

• 10 new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials that you will flip over

• The exciting thing coming next to the Gutenberg Ninja course

• Whether it’s safe or not to update to WordPress 5.3 yet

• My take on the changes Genesis is now discussing

• Where the data comes from in the new Google Search Console Speed Index

• What’s up with the new speed badges Chrome is adding and how it could radically impact your traffic

• How to test your site speed accurately

Tips this week include:

• What’s coming soon to the Gutenberg Ninja course

• Why you need to dig deep into settings if WordPress auto updated for you

• Whether it’s okay to update to WordPress 5.3 or not yet and why

• Whether it’s okay to update most plugins or not

• What’s in the Genesis 3.2 release and whether it’s okay to update or not

• You only have 14 days left to update your PHP version – see how

Tips this week include:

• Why I’m thrilled to meet my goal of monetizing my woodworking site

• The new Gutenberg Ninja tutorials that just came out and what’s coming next

• Why I’ve got migrations galore happening, and the hosts folks are leaving

• cPanel makes changes to how SSL certificates renew and removes DCV rewrite conditions

• Big changes to the Cloudflare interface

• Why you need to get an audit checkup

• The huge issues one client is having with Thrive and why you need to stop using it too

• WordPress 5.3 rolls out today and why we won’t be updating to it

• Why it’s so important to take the annual WordPress survey and get your voice heard about its development

• Big news for Broken Link Checker and who picked up development and why I still say to drop it

• The surprising news of Social Pug being sold to Mediavine and what this means for the plugin

• What’s up with recipe and travel sites getting hit in the latest Google update