BlogAid WordPress Tips Tuesday

Tips this week include:

• Recipe video SEO tutorials are underway

• New Cloudflare tutorials for webmasters published

• Celebrating a big milestone on Heartwood Art and new tutorials that will come of

• New coalition of vendors happening

• What’s up with HeroPress expanding into the HeroPress Network

• A summary of WordCamp US that happened last week

• Genesis blocks now has new mobile options

• How SiteGround centralizing their DNS might affect you

• YouTube pays out the equivalent of 394,000 full-time jobs

• The huge news with YouTube making transcripts searchable

• How videos are replacing blog posts in search

• Should you always own your own content platform?

Tips this week include:

• Why I’m officially hooked on TikTok now

• Facebook was down on Monday, and how I found out about it

• Help with finding great video courses to vet

• The ModSecurity issues and alternatives we are looking into

• Updates coming to the Webmaster Training tutorials

• Host control panel differences and how I’ll be dealing with them for new tutorials

• What’s up with the host server setup issues all over the place

• More expansion of the Bad SEO bot block tests and implementation

• What we’re discussing and supporting in our BB Hub Facebook group

• Proof that faster sites do indeed rank better

• Why I’ve lost faith in Google Search Console

• A peek into our future and why it’s time to pivot how you make money

Tips this week include:

• Expansion of the bad SEO bot block tests

• What plugins are changing hands with Awesome Motive buying Sandhills Development

• New speed metrics in the Lighthouse 8.3 upgrade

• A front porch chat for the change of season all bloggers are in now and what it takes to get more eyeballs and make more money with your site

Tips this week include:

• How storyboarding makes creating posts and videos faster

• Bonus live DIY SEO course session for content silo and republishing of seasonal posts

• WP Fastest Cache tutorial has been updated

• Update on the Cloudflare bad bot blocking tests

• Update on tests for CleanTalk anti spam service

• How Apple’s new privacy protection will impact email tracking

• Intuit buys MailChimp

• More info on Google changing titles

• LiquidWeb acquires LearnDash

• Brian Gardner of Genesis joins WPEngine in a new role

Tips this week include:

• More Gutenberg Ninja tutorials have been released and the warning I put on them

• Will Block Patterns replace Reusable Blocks

• Update on the recipe video SEO testing

• Why all of your schema markup must be well-formatted

• Why to deeply vet who you hire for site services

• Our upcoming TikTok mastermind for making money with brands

• A story of how one of my clients is making real money with her sites

• What was in the WP 5.8.1 release

• Will your post get caught in Google’s recipe listicle removal from search

• Why not to use a Table of Contents plugin

• Preparing WP for the PHP 8.1 upgrade

• Automattic acquires the Social Image Generator plugin

• Are you using the right image format?

• Getting multiple levels of SEO on every image

Tips this week include:

• The new Gutenberg Tutorials are live

• What I found in the recipe video SEO tests so far

• Why I’m making more videos with my phone instead of camera

• BB Hub Printables and Downloads Mastermind is this week

• The block bot testing has been expanded to more sites

• Why I’m investigating Base64 image placeholders for lazy load

• How the new Bing Submission API will help us fight bad bots

• Why Google is dropping AMP for news posts, and what will take its place

• Why we need only one Rich Result focus per post

• Why proper SEO takes super deep testing, and what I’ve already found

• 22 expert ideas for connecting with your audience

Tips this week include:

• Why I jumped on the Instagram video bandwagon with my first InShot video

• Video recipe SEO testing update

• Gutenberg Ninja tutorials underway – and a cool new thing I found

• Why I’m testing CleanTalk Anti Spam for both comments and forms

• What’s happening with my BB Hub members like:

o How to fix ConvertKit optins showing at the bottom

o Cloudflare block bot tests expanding

o Why where you host matters for seeing what’s hitting your site

o Upcoming mastermind for digital downloads

• Classic Editor plugin support extended and why you don’t need it

• The roadmap for WP 5.9

• Why you need to learn Gutenberg before your next theme revamp

• How the Customizer is causing load issues

• It’s time to get your free WordCamp US tickets for the online event

Tips this week include:

• It’s finally time to update to WP 5.8

• The What’s New in WP 5.8 tour is ready for you

• New Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are underway

• The Theme Speed Test post has been released

• See the newly revamped Site Audits page with all of the BB Hub Plus perks listed

• Videos in recipes SEO tests are underway

• One more reason to drop ShortPixel

• Why Google PageSpeed Insights uses a Moto phone on a Fast 3G connection

• Why BlogAid uses real-world tests for site speed – just like Google actually judges you on

• The future of e-comm trends to watch and how to get brand sponsorship now

• Shopify analytics are now in GA4

• How Cloudflare mitigated the largest DDoS attack in history

• Why you must secure all of your Smart devices immediately

• A peek into our future with Twitter’s BlueSky project

Tips this week include:

• BB Hub Plus Membership has launched

• Theme speed tests are complete – and when the post will be out

• What new tests and tutorials are underway

• Status on whether it’s time to update to WP 5.8 or not

• An overdue improvement to Kadence Blocks

• Issues with Pinterest hover buttons

• NameHero launches a private cloud service

• .com domain extension price increases 7% on Sept 1

• Is Google authorship back?

• Yoast has been acquired by EIG – sort of

• Automattic buys Titan, a pro Email Suite

• Where you can see a list of all major WP related acquisitions

• What the mid-year security report reveals that you should do to protect your site

Tips this week include:

• The deep rabbit hole I went down with video SEO this weekend

• Running niche sites entirely with vlogs

• I’m the only SEO that seems to know a big secret trick that I’ll teach you

• Status on our wait to update to WP 5.8

• New Gutenberg Ninja tutorials are underway

• The insane poll results from pro SEOs for nofollow sponsored tag use

• Ahrefs getting blocked and why that service will confuse you

• Google changes messaging on Page Experience no longer being a tie breaker

• Google simplifies Page Experience report and why it’s still worthless

• Why I’m thrilled that Team Yoast is working on persistent user settings for WP

• A popular GDPR cookie plugin turns into a paid service

• The best Canva alternatives for creating graphics fast