Tips this week include:

• The BlogAid Holiday sale on courses and site audits is still on

• Where you can see a preview of the new Gutenberg landing page templates I’m building

• How Gutenberg Made it Easy to Monetize My Site

• A refresh on the DIY SEO course

• What’s up with Google getting super serious about speed and why you need to pay attention

• If you haven’t updated your PHP version to at least 7.2, you’ve now got a security risk on your site – and what to do about it

• Why you need to check your PHP version even if you did update it, especially if you’re on SiteGround

• What I’m seeing with bad bots pulsing and possibly priming for an attack

• The new potential ghost bot hitting Google Analytics

• Whether it’s safe to update to WordPress 5.3 yet or not

• How to disable the big image threshold in WordPress 5.3

• A new post for webmasters with database table prefixes of popular WP plugins

• My take on the Google Site Kit plugin and whether you should use it

• What’s up with Google personalizing what you see in the Knowledge Graph and why it has all pro SEOs shaking in their shoes

• A super roundup of everything you need to know about the big Bert update

• And what prompted Yoast to hashtag #neveragain on Twitter