BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday episodes:

• February 13, 2018Tips Tuesday – HTTPS, Speed, SEO, Make More Money

  Tips this week are all about the 4 super important things on our radar right now, and they are:
  

  • HTTPS
  

  • Site speed
  

  • SEO
  

  • Making more money

  ...more

  

  ---

• February 06, 2018Tips Tuesday – Lazy Load Images, SEO Audit, iThemes, WordPress 4.9.3

  Tips this week include:
  

  • What I’m finding in my caching and speed tests
  

  • Why where you host matters so much
  

  • Are you chasing scores or speed?
  

  • Why Google PageSpeed Insights is a worthless tester
  

  • A super easy tool to list out all of your blog posts in a spreadsheet
  

  • What’s in the recent WordPress 4.9.3 release
  

  • UpdraftPlus acquires a new site manager plugin
  

  • LiquidWeb purchases iThemes
  

  • Major changes in Contact Form 7 and why I may not be recommending it much longer
  

  • A super JotForm tutorial
  

  • Why ranking in Google is all about user intent now
  

  • A new image lazy load feature coming to Chrome
  

  • What’s at the very top of the latest Google Webmaster Report
  

  • What the new SEO audit extension in Chrome can and can’t do

  ...more

  

  ---

• January 30, 2018Tips Tuesday – IP Firewalls, Caching Tests, Videos from Images

  Tips this week include:
  

  • New head-to-head caching tests underway
  

  • Why your host type and traffic matter to vet the info you read about caching
  

  • What’s new in our DIY SEO content audit side challenge
  

  • The date for the next DIY SEO Workshop on global site and page SEO
  

  • How to track outbound link clicks in Google Analytics
  

  • Why you need to fully disable XML-RPC to prevent a DDoS attack
  

  • Why I issued an update tutorial to Cloudflare’s IP Firewall settings
  

  • Why designers must learn how to properly secure a site
  

  • An insightful recap of the major Google announcements from 2017
  

  • How to easily create marketing videos from still images
  

  • 5 fun things you didn’t know you could do with FooGallery
  

  • 6 reasons why you should be using SVG images
  

  • Happy 15th birthday to WordPress

  ...more

  

  ---

• January 23, 2018Tips Tuesday – SEO Interview, WP Rocket Tests, Voice Search

  Tips this week include:
  

  • Join me for a live interview with SEO consultant Brian Weiss this Wednesday
  

  • DIY SEO Workshop on Rising Ranking Factors and live speed test tonight
  

  • How SEO saved the day when a company had their marketing budget slashed
  

  • WP Rocket Tests are complete and what’s next
  

  • Why you need to vet what you read about speed
  

  • Google’s new deadline for when speed will become a mobile ranking factor
  

  • What is UX and why bother with it
  

  • Study finds 80% of Voice Search comes from Answer Box Snippets and how you can get in on it
  

  • When virtual reality will hit WordPress sites
  

  • The importance of goal setting for bloggers

  ...more

  

  ---

• January 16, 2018Tips Tuesday – SEO Interview, wpDiscuz Tutorial, Image Optimization Test

  Tips this week include:
  

  • Live interview with SEO consultant Brian Weiss
  

  • Updates to the first DIY SEO Workshop and Bonus Session
  

  • How to Test Image Optimization for Faster Page Load Speed
  

  • wpDiscuz Tutorial releasing later this week
  

  • WP Rocket Tests Underway
  

  • Who needs to jump on the release of Gutenberg 2.0
  

  • What Google confirming it uses your XML sitemap for
  

  • Mastering the Changing Digital Marketing Landscape
  

  • Google PageSpeed Insights Finally Adds Speed Scores and why it’s worthless
  

  • An improved campaign creation workflow comes to MailChimp

  ...more

  

  ---

• January 09, 2018Tips Tuesday – Free Blog Images, Genesis Trends, Mobile-First Indexing

  Tips this week include:
  

  • Start of the DIY SEO Workshops today
  

  • How the Meltdown and Spectre Hardware Attacks Affect WordPress
  

  • 3 plugins to check for backdoor security threats
  

  • Why I’m giving FooGallery a big pat on the back
  

  • New Interface for Google Search Console
  

  • How Mobile-First indexing works and will affect your SEO
  

  • 28 places to download free blog images
  

  • Why not to steal images off Google
  

  • New Gutenberg development course and who should take it
  

  • Genesis design trends for 2018 and a must-listen podcast for all designers

  ...more

  

  ---

• January 02, 2018Tips Tuesday – Trends and Predictions for Site Success in 2018

  Tips this week include trends and predictions and what I believe will lead to site success for you in 2018.

  ...more

  

  ---

• December 26, 2017Tips Tuesday – DIY SEO Challenge, Genesis Future, SSL and Cloudflare

  Tips this week include:
  

  • DIY SEO Jumpstart Challenge has begun
  

  • Update on SSL certificates renewing when using Cloudflare
  

  • Social Warfare featuring shorter Pinterest image
  

  • New features in WP Rocket 2.11
  

  • New features in Yoast SEO 6.0
  

  • How long should your SEO meta description be for 2018 posts?
  

  • New Google rich results and new testing tool
  

  • New Google Snippets video series
  

  • A complete guide to what direct traffic is in Google Analytics
  

  • How to run a social media hashtag campaign
  

  • What’s up with Chrome banning non-compliant ads starting in March
  

  • What the cPanel Upgrade to TLS 1.2 means for your site speed and security
  

  • What every Genesis developer/designer needs to know
  

  • A new front end Gutenberg optimized theme to play with

  ...more

  

  ---

• December 19, 2017Tips Tuesday – DDoS Attack, PHP 7.2, TLS Upgrade, Storify, WP Spamshield

  Tips this week include:
  

  • Two new comment reply notification plugin tutorials
  

  • DIY SEO survey results livestream this week
  

  • Webmaster tutorial updates for HTTPS
  

  • How the privacy policy changes at WP.com and new GDPR regulations for the EU affect you
  

  • Why there is a bright economic future for Gutenberg devs and designers
  

  • What I think about the threat of WordPress Attrition over Gutenberg
  

  • What’s up with WP Spamshield moving to a premium plugin
  

  • Is the biggest DDoS brute force attack in history underway right now?
  

  • What you need to know about the TLS upgrade deadline coming from Google
  

  • Getting your site ready for Google’s Mobile First Indexing
  

  • What everybody needs to know about PHP 7.2
  

  • What you need to do before Storify shuts down this spring

  ...more

  

  ---

• December 12, 2017Tips Tuesday – Gutenberg Buzz, Mobile and Voice Search Stats, Yoast 5.9

  Tips this week include:
  

  • SEO Workshop session outline posted
  

  • New Facebook group for DIY SEO members
  

  • New email templates for BlogAid
  

  • Special thank you to Denise Wakeman for a great visibility challenge
  

  • Just released video of Morten’s Gutenberg presentation at WordCampUS
  

  • Why Jason Pollock of CalderaForms is so excited about Gutenberg
  

  • A proposed start on a plugin compatibility check for Gutenberg
  

  • The economic impact of Gutenberg rollout on devs, designers, and users
  

  • How to avoid Gutenberg transition chaos
  

  • Why you shouldn’t wait on Gutenberg to design your next theme
  

  • Plugins are getting an active install graph in the repo
  

  • What’s in the newest 5.9 version of Yoast SEO
  

  • A glimpse at all of the Google SEO changes for November
  

  • What Sprout Social acquiring Simply Measured means for you and me
  

  • The Moz SEO reader survey results are in and they are very interesting
  

  • Stats on the rise of mobile and voice activated search

  ...more

  

  ---