BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday episodes:

• July 03, 2018Tips Tuesday – Recipe Schema Warnings, Cloudflare and PHP Bug, StudioPress and WPEngine

  Tips this week include:
  

  • Why I’m doing a theme revamp on BlogAid even with Gutenberg rolling out soon
  

  • New Flash Challenges coming to the DIY SEO course
  

  • The high cost of putting off moving to a better host
  

  • Foodie bloggers getting emails from Google Search Console for missing schema markup
  

  • Yoast SEO 7.7 update has a new snippet editor
  

  • StudioPress has been acquired by WPEngine and what that means for Genesis theme users
  

  • An issue with the preview for Pinterest shares with the Shared Count plugin
  

  • A new bug for the Cloudflare plugin when using PHP 7.2 at your host

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• June 26, 2018Tips Tuesday – More Shares, Online Sales Tax, Unique Blogging Tips

  Tips this week include:
  

  • How much free site help from your host is costing you
  

  • Live site audit and speed session for Webmaster Level 6 members
  

  • How to renew your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on SiteGround if you use Cloudflare
  

  • A new aggregate speed index from Google PageSpeed Insights
  

  • Examples of the slimy SEO industry tricks that you’re competing with
  

  • An update on the recipe plugin schema markup tests
  

  • How to get more social shares on your blog posts and why this is good for SEO too
  

  • How to jump on Google now letting us verify the Knowledge Graph it carries on us
  

  • A site speed case study that shows you how to improve conversion rate
  

  • The big news with a new online shopping sales tax law being passed
  

  • 10 super unique blogging tips that will break you out of your rut and give you a fresh mindset

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• June 19, 2018Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Schedule, Talking Browser, Image App, Database Tutorials

  Tips this week include:
  

  • What’s involved in moving to a new host
  

  • Why doing an HTTPS switch the free way will come back to haunt you
  

  • Updates to the Webmaster database and plugin tutorials
  

  • Why a clean site on the back end just runs faster
  

  • An upcoming Webmaster live session for site audits
  

  • What you need to know about the new Gutenberg release schedule and what to do prior to it
  

  • The possibility of live sessions for designers to get to know Gutenberg
  

  • Why you need to take control of your WordPress updates and a tutorial to help you do it
  

  • Which is best to use: relative or absolute links?
  

  • A new talking browser coming from the FireFox folks and what this means to your SEO
  

  • A cool new app for your images that you’ll want to give a spin

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• June 12, 2018Tips Tuesday – Cloudflare Tutorials, Speed Posts, Mobile-First Indexing

  Tips this week include:
  

  • New Cloudflare Tutorials
  

  • A roundup of posts on speed and things you can do to make your site fast right now
  

  • Why Voice Search will soon be the norm
  

  • What mobile-first indexing is and how it works
  

  • What I discovered about Yoast SEO premium redirects that I don’t like
  

  • A monster list of GDPR plugins
  

  • How Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub might affect future plugin development

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• June 05, 2018Tips Tuesday – Site Speed, SEO Ranking Drops, Great Photography, Video Embeds

  Tips this week include:
  

  • What we’re finding in site audits
  

  • Update on resuming Webmaster speed tutorials and live sessions
  

  • What’s coming down the pike for the DIY SEO course
  

  • Alternatives for Social Warfare
  

  • Why you may want to consider switching to NameCheap as your domain registrar
  

  • Why you need to check your Yoast SEO settings for Media Attachments immediately
  

  • Why that Yoast SEO bug was not solely responsible for a drop in rankings for some folks
  

  • A super post on product photography that all craft/lifestyle/foodie bloggers will like
  

  • The importance of photojournalism and entertaining on your blog
  

  • A whole bunch of helpful image tips, including a way to test them for speed
  

  • Why video is so important to bloggers
  

  • Tips about embedding videos on your site

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• May 29, 2018Tips Tuesday – Site Speed Deadline, WordPress Updates, GDPR, Encrypt Backup Files

  Tips this week include:
  

  • New post on why EU country blocking won’t work for GDPR compliance
  

  • New post on the raging debate about IP addresses and cookies that will impact all online biz
  

  • Why I have to keep a GDPR meeting private with just my site audit clients and webmasters
  

  • Why you need to get your request in now for site speed to beat Google’s July deadline
  

  • Why you must take control over WordPress updates
  

  • Why Yoast SEO tweaked the meta description length again
  

  • Update on new structured data for recipes that could bring you tons more traffic
  

  • A new extension for Chrome that you don’t want to tell anybody about
  

  • Why encrypting your backups are a requirement now
  

  • Update on how to detect cookies you have in use on your site

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• May 22, 2018Tips Tuesday – Recipes in Google Assistant, GDPR, Unused Plugins

  Tips this week include:
  

  • A new GDPR Plugins and Services post
  

  • A couple of super quick and easy GDPR related tasks to do
  

  • Celebrating two of my Scratched to Published clients launching their new sites soon
  

  • An indicator of what’s to come with WordPress cleaning house on unused plugins
  

  • How to easily make it through the major transition with plugins that we are in right now
  

  • A super tutorial for designers on Gutenberg in Genesis
  

  • What you need to know about Gutenberg as a site owner that will keep you calm
  

  • 5 ways to encourage more comments on your blog posts that are easy to do
  

  • Why you need to send your recipes to Google Assistant right away

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• May 15, 2018Tips Tuesday – GDPR, Google Assistant, WordPress 4.9.6, Free Site Success eBook

  Tips this week include:
  

  • A whole series of GDPR posts and more on the way
  

  • Why you need to jump on getting your email list GDPR compliant now
  

  • A new, free ebook I’m working on and will have for you soon
  

  • WordPress 4.9.6 is due out this week with new GDPR Tools
  

  • How you can get up-to-the-minute news from me
  

  • Why I’m trying to curb my excitement about my fave fix-it guy possibly returning
  

  • Is the hoohaa finally over with the Social Warfare plugin and is it safe to update now?
  

  • Which resource hog plugin I recently tested that will kill your page load speed
  

  • Google makes meta descriptions in SERPs short again and what you should do about it
  

  • Why Google Assistant taking center stage at the I/O conference is huge news for you
  

  • What’s up with Yoast SEO adding caching to images

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• May 08, 2018Tips Tuesday – GDPR Guide

  This week’s tips are all about GDPR.
  

  There are 6 steps you need to take, and I’m going to detail them out for you in this guide.

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• May 01, 2018Tips Tuesday – Speed Posts, GIMP Images, GDPR Plugin, Using Free Gmai

  Tips this week include:
  

  • The new speed post series has launched
  

  • Site audit workshops begin this week for Webmaster Training members
  

  • Whether you should add special HowTo schema markup to your posts yet
  

  • Why I’m so excited about Google expanding Featured Snippets with a drop-down
  

  • What’s up with Google Analytics and GDPR compliance
  

  • A new Cookiebot plugin for GDPR compliance I’m looking into
  

  • Cloudflare adds super new protections to their WAF
  

  • Why to get your email off your hosting and how it saved one of my clients
  

  • Whether you should use a free Gmail account for your main site contact
  

  • How to backup your Gmail inbox to another Gmail account, including GSuites
  

  • How to prepare your content for extended reality
  

  • What’s in the new version of GIMP for image creation and optimization

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