BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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