BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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