BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:

• Free website review webinar

• Last call for DIY SEO and Webmaster Level 6 switch over

• I’m ready for more HTTPS conversion requests

• A sneak peek at what’s coming from BlogAid in March

• The new CloudFlare leak dubbed Cloudbleed

• A security reality check

• Why a solid backup solution is more important than ever

• Which hosts are not supporting free SSL certificates yet

• How to avoid duplicate content on product pages

• Beaver Builder releases an add on for Genesis theme design

• First look at the new WordPress Block Editor

Tips this week include:

• Free website performance and conversion review webinar

• The BlogAid Learning Center grand opening as new home to the DIY SEO course

• CloudFlare temporarily losing its mind

• Why you need CloudFlare

• Why you need HTTPS

• My chat with Matt Mullenweg

• My chat with an SEO services provider

• My chat with a designer about partnering for HTTPS conversion services

• The final straw with the Disqus comments plugin

• WP Fastest Cache back in the repo

• Matt Mullenweg under attack for not taking WP security seriously

• A must read post on the REST API vulnerability for all site owners

Tips this week include:

• The new BlogAid Pinterst page

• My upcoming chat with Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WP

• Why you need HTTPS even if you’re not selling anything on your site

• Update on site hacks via the REST API

• Google Search Console wording change on site update notifications

• Two of my fave plugins no longer supported or removed from the repository

• Follow up on the BlogVault hack

• How Google determines which version of your site to index

• What cPanel partnering with Comodo means for your site and hosting

• What HSTS is and why you have to have it

• Hosts using PHP7 by default now and what you need to watch out for

• And epic list of 134 free stock photo sites

• How and why you need to verify and authenticate your email address with MailChimp

• An in-depth tutorial to block referral spam in Google Analytics

• Why SEO is essential for your business

• A comparison review of StudioPress Sites and Rainmaker

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Tips this week include:

Celebrating this podcast listed in top ones to catch in 2017

HTTPS site conversion checklists updated

New code in .htaccess for Let’s Encrypt SSL Certification validation

DIY SEO member site updates

Webmaster bonus material updates

What’s coming in WordPress 4.7.3

Why and how to put a privacy policy on your site

Why to stop doing SEO like it’s 2012

Major Russian spam bot attack continues

Proof of why you have to turn XML-RPC fully off

A little secret about renewing VaultPress without JetPack

BlogVault’s security breach

How HTTPS is becoming the norm for web traffic

How HTTP/2 protocol removes the performance hit of HTTPS

Google partnering with CloudFlare for faster ads

Tips this week include:

• Why BlogAid and the podcast may have interruptions soon

• Why to get on my HTTPS site conversion list now

• How to protect your site from user generated spam

• An important State of WordPress Industry webinar on Wednesday

• More details on the huge changes coming to WordPress this year

• StudioPress getting in on the managed hosting business

• 19 Facebook Marketing predictions

• A hiccup with UpDraftPlus that’s been fixed

• Sticky Bar Recommendations

• How to cloak affiliate links for SEO

• Pretty Links vs the Redirection plugin

• An even better way to make pretty shortlinks

• The 6 best FTP clients to use for designers and webmasters

• Celebrating perfect security header scores on HTTPS sites

Tips this week include:

• HTTPS Site Conversion Webinars Follow Up

• Why you need to get on the list to get your site converted to HTTPS

• Why designers need to learn HTTPS or go out of business

• SiteGround Auto Issues Free SSL Certificates

• A Google Ranking Factor post I just can’t believe

• What Matt Cutts is up to now that he resigned from Google

• How HTTP Status Codes affect your SEO

• And which big domain registrar is buying up another

Tips this week include:

• How image optimization impacts your bottom line

• The new membership site I’m building right now

• The price of being a hands off site owner

• WordPress 4.7.1 bug fixes

• What the Google mobile pop up penalty rolling out means for you

• Why I have to change my SEO and marketing strategy

• How Google changed its test for image optimization

• Google PageSpeed integrated with WebPage Test

• What crawl budget means for Googlebot and how site speed matters

• An update for current VaultPress users

• The Chrome form autofill security issue

• GoDaddy revokes SSL certificates

• An SSL certificate tip for you

• Why not to pay a host to convert your site to HTTPS

• An ultimate HTTPS checklist in the making

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Hello Happy Site Owners!

Tips this week include:

• New webmaster tutorials

• Busting the CloudFlare SSL myth

• Why new webinars and workshops are on the way for 2017

• Dramatically lower Google PageSpeed Insights Scores

• The future of SEO

• Why you might want to consider buying traffic in 2017

• Update on the PHPMailer Exploit

• WordPress 4.7.1 rolling out soon

• Update on the 3 big focus areas of WP development this year

• A warning on the new Cookbook Recipe plugin

• UpdrafPlus acquiring the WP-Optimize plugin

• An A2 Hosting Review

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This week I’ve got a bunch of goodies for you and a special request at the end.

Tips this week include:

• BlogAid New Year Blowout

• Hottest Webmaster Skills for Designers in 2017

• The first ever BlogAid Town Hall Meeting

• A follow up on the PHPMailer Exploit

• Chrome begins issuing Unsecured Site Warnings

• How many sites really do run on WordPress

• A new ad blocker buster technology

• What’s new with the robots.txt file

• And a special request from me

Since this is the last podcast of the year, tips this week include a round-up of the best tips I’ve shared with you through 2016 that are evergreen, plus follow ups on major news and changes that I reported on this past year.

If you’re listening to this podcast, you’ll definitely want to go to the written post with all of the links. It will be one to bookmark and revisit for all of 2017.