BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:

• Site speed post series launching this week

• New Webmaster caching plugin tutorials released

• The hoohaa still going on with the MediaVine plugin and loosing HTTPS secure status

• A new plugin that will disable Gutenberg completely

• The Gutenberg nag that will be coming in WordPress 4.9.6

• Why you need to start checking plugin update notes

• Why getting in on Google Voice Search is more important than ever

• Why Google is giving podcasts some extra exposure

• A new test on how well longer meta descriptions are working out in Google SERPs

• A GDPR tutorial on how to make your MailChimp signup forms compliant

• How SiteGround is preparing for GDPR compliance

• Whether your site needs a Terms and Conditions page and what should be on it

• Why you need to log out when you’re not active in your WordPress site

• What the death of SquirrelMail in cPanel means for us

Tips this week include:

• Why page weight is the big factor in site speed and why you need to reduce it

• Update to the Cloudflare Page Rules tutorials that affected my member site access

• What MediaVine ad network users need to check on their sites right now

• Which hosting failed when a major ice storm hit Michigan this weekend

• SiteGround removes a blocking filter for WP Rocket users

• Why you need to test going up to PHP 7.2 soon

• What SSL related issues a new version of cPanel is going to cause

• Why to check your email list service for GDPR compliance

• The new GDPR compliance tools coming in the WordPress core this month

• What steps you may need to take, or not, for GDPR if you’re running ads

• How to republish old blog posts so both Google and readers are happy with you

• A refresher on SEO basics that 80% of my clients were missing, and I bet you are too

Tips this week include:

• Ultimate speed tests on live sites have started!!!!!!

• Speed Workshop for Webmaster Training Members

• Are you getting all the low hanging, easy fruit to speed up your site?

• Why to check your SSL certificate to ensure it is not from Symantec

• The skinny on Google using Chrome data to verify your site speed

• How and why speed matters to your bottom line

• How to hook your visitors with a sizzling “About Us” page

• What’s up with the stop word feature for permalinks in Yoast SEO

• Whether issues I reported at SiteGround have been resolved

• Why you should never ask your host to make changes with your site

Tips this week include:

• Ultimate speed tests have started on BlogAid and client sites this week and what I’m encountering

• Update on the status of the WP Fastest Cache and WP Rocket Tutorials

• Issues at SiteGround you may be encountering

• What’s not in the latest WordPress 4.9.5 release that rolls out today

• The big change to Caldera Forms coding that will affect all plugins

• How and why you must switch to PHP 7 immediately

• Getting your site ready for GDPR with a new plugin and whether to use it or not

• Facebook cracks down on email list uploads and what it means for your privacy statement

• Cloudflare launches a DNS Resolver that you’ll want to use

• How HTTPS sites are going to be harder to snoop on soon

• Google announces the shutdown of their goo.gl link shortner service

• Why it’s time for an RSS revival

• Which words convert the best and how to test them

Tips this week include:

• New Yoast 7.1 Tutorials

• Next DIY SEO live workshop on formatting for Google Snippets

• Why I’m hiring a Cloudflare consultant to speed up my member sites

• An update on what’s on my site audit waiting list

• The Gutenberg callout that may be coming to WordPress 4.9.5 and why you don’t want to do it

• A new way to keep your SSL certificate from getting spoofed

• Why paying for HTTPS conversion is a good long-term investment that saves you money

• Mobile-first indexing emails from Google Search Console coming out to you soon

• 2 lists of the slowest and most resource intensive WordPress plugins

• A call to plugin devs to stop supporting old PHP versions and what that means for you

• How and why to get your site and marketing strategy ready for GDPR that hits in May

Tips this week include:

• New WebPage Test and GTMetrix speed tutorials

• What went haywire with my live site speed tests on BlogAid

• Speed tweaks coming to client sites

• Status update on the waiting list for site audits and HTTPS conversion

• Whether or not it’s safe to update Yoast SEO yet

• The new wildcard certificate from Let’s Encrypt and if you can use it or not

• Changes to how SiteGround auto updates your site

• Best practices for pagination and SEO that will affect everyone who promotes their categories

• What we should do with our old XML sitemaps on our non-canonical

• Huge changes to Google image search that will bring you more site traffic

• A great place to get free stock art

• WordPress celebrates hitting another milestone

• Great news from Cloudflare that will speed up your site delivery

• 7 important design trends for sites in 2018 that is a must-read for all designers

Tips this week include:

• Why you need to get your site audit request in right away

• Why my contact form got knocked stupid for a few days

• Clarifying more advanced settings at Cloudflare for increased security and speed

• What’s in the newest Webmaster tutorials

• Update to the WP Fastest Cache tutorial

• The next DIY SEO Workshop on Categories and Tags

• Why you need to hold off on using AMP

• Whether it’s safe to update to Genesis 2.6

• Whether it’s safe to update the Yoast SEO plugin

Tips this week include:

• Caching and Cloudflare

• New WebPage Test tutorials

• Mobile Speed Test tutorials

• Blog Post SEO Workshop this week

• What’s next for Rand Fishkin since he left Moz

• Why I’m excited about Google’s new Multi-Intent Featured Snippet test

• Whether you should be worried about Chrome filtering ads now

• Two-Factor authentication coming to WordPress without a plugin

• The huge DDoS attack last week that has all server farms quaking in their shoes and how to protect your site

• What’s in the new Gutenberg Plugin Compatibility Chart

• A super tutorial for styling themes for Gutenberg

• A great place to get free images for your blog and more

• A fun way to put motion into your still images

Tips this week include:

• Deep dive into browser caching and HTTPS

• Live Webmaster Level 6 chat today

• How to get the bloat out of your site for better speed

• Why we may be seeing updates to our favorite caching plugins

• Why we’re doing a bonus workshop on images for the DIY SEO course and the full schedule for March on SEO for blog posts is up

• Big changes for the Yoast SEO plugin coming in version 7.0

• Whether or not 404s blow your Googlebot crawl budget

• Why you must keep your plugins updated and the big plugins with current security issues

• What’s in the new premium version of WP-Optimize

• Why WordPress plans to add core support for GDPR compliance

• The new Genesis 2.6 Beta is ready for testing

• Why more plugins are adding a Lazy Load feature for images

• Why more online services are adding 2-step authentication by default and what that means for webmasters and site managers

• Why you don’t want to pay for the new SiteGround backup services

Tips this week include:

• The speed tests are complete

• Reminder: the next DIY SEO live workshop is this Thursday

• A reminder to manually update to WordPress 4.9.4

• The best order to do your site updates and why

• WordPress.com has a new President and what that means for Automattic’s future

• Why you don’t need to worry about Gutenberg

• What’s in the 2018 hosting benchmark’s just released

• How the huge drop in the Google crawl budget will affect you

• Predictions from Cloudflare about what’s in store for sites in 2018

• Why you must get a Web Application Firewall now