BlogAid Podcast

Tips this week include: • Super Summer Sales Event is underway • Why you need to get your site services request in now! • What’s in the new tutorials for DIY SEO, Gutenberg, and Webmaster Training for Designers • The ranking factors we’re discussing in our live chat today in the DIY SEO group • What email marketing platform is best to use • Why some of you need to jump on voice activated search right now • Nine questions that will give you tons of social media and blog post ideas

Tips this week include: • Webmaster Training for Designers is still on sale • New extensions on the Gutenberg Ninja course are now available to all • New discount codes for existing BlogAid clients and members are now available • A new affiliate program is coming to the BlogAid Learning Center • You better get in now for site services, my calendar is filling up for July • More info on XML sitemaps coming to the WordPress core • Why you don’t want to use Google AMP to speed up your site • We’re saying bye bye to the preferred domain setting in Search Console • What Matt Mullenweg said in his keynote at WordCamp Europe • How Genesis 3.0 broke a few sites • 3 tips for making your site maintenance chores better and easier • Tips for using online video in business • Huge news about WP Engine’s acquisition of Flywheel hosting • 3 ways to share links on Instagram and what I’m including on the Gute course for it

Tips this week include: • Huge sale to celebrate the grand re-opening of the Webmaster Training site • The new specialty block suite and theme I’m checking out for the Gutenberg course • A new tutorial in the Gute course for putting text links on image galleries • What I’m doing to speed up BlogAid ahead of my annual site audit • Why not to use the Shareaholic plugin • How I got unstuck with my hobby to money-making site and put it back on track • What’s in the WordPress 5.2.2 release that is rolling out today • Why XML Sitemaps coming to the WordPress core is such a big deal, and who’s involved in making it happen • What’s being served up in the new Gutenberg Snackbar

Tips this week include: • Special discount celebration on the Grand Re-Opening of the BlogAid Learning Center • Why I’m giving another free month of access on the Gutenberg Ninja course • Where to access the Gute course during this changeover • A HUGE thank you to my membership site revamp team • How things are going at my new host and why I’m so damned impressed with them • Why I switched away from Contact Form 7 to a more modern form plugin and how Formidable Forms met all of my criteria • The two big plugins bequeathed to WordPress recently • What’s in the Yoast SEO 11.3 update and why you may not want to use it • The update in WP Fastest Cache that is my fault and what to do with it • Why we’re tickled about more user requested features come to Social Pug • A tip about what to do right after you update plugins • What the new Google Rich Results Tester checks • Why we’re silly happy about more diversity of domains in search • Why that diversity is great for videos too • What’s coming in the Genesis 3.0 release in a couple of weeks

Tips this week include: • A new format for Tips Tuesday • Report on the grand opening of the Gutenberg Ninja Course • Big changes coming to the BlogAid Learning Center – home of the DIY SEO course • Why I temporarily closed purchase to the Webmaster Training • A new tour and tutorial on Formidable Forms • A huge thank you to my business visionary coach • The journey all site owners go through moving from a newb to a money-making mindset • An update on the Cloudflare/Facebook issue • An update on the new directive I found lurking in your SiteGround files • A potential bug in the latest Scriptless Social Sharing plugin update • A big change to the Facebook API for showing share counts • Google is rolling out a big algorithm update right now, and where to look for changes • A follow up from Yoast on potential auto updates coming to the plugin • Some seriously interesting video stats that is encouraging to keep doing more of them

This week we’ll have a little fireside chat, just you and me.

Tips this week include: • The Gutenberg Course is available to all with a grand opening discount • Live session this week in the DIY SEO course for Yoast and Search Console changes • Why I’m so tickled with my 2 latest video experiments for Heartwood Art • Why I’ve taken to deleting cache after updates and the 3 places you need to do that • WordPress 5.2.1 is scheduled to roll out today – see what’s in it • More on the huge new feature in WP 5.2 of a signature key security code • Why Yoast is dropping support for pre-Gutenberg WP versions and why I’m delighted about it • Why cPanel is removing PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0 and what you need to do now • What’s up with cPanel changing the way our SSL certificates renew and why it’s making me crazy • Changes to your heartbeat and revision control code coming • Why you need to get an annual site checkup • Nginx is coming to cPanel and what I’m watching closely for that will impact our site speed • Huge speed boost from Cloudflare with their new HTTP/2 Prioritization feature

Tips this week include: • Gutenberg course launching this week • Where to get a discount on the Gutenberg course • Whether it’s safe to update to WP 5.2 or not • How to ensure you have a complete backup solution • What’s up with GoDaddy purchasing CoBlocks • Why you need to get on the Gutenberg train • 2019 Hosting Benchmark report is out • Testing results for speed and SEO on the GeneratePress theme • New features and SEO in WP Tasty and WP Recipe Maker plugins • New speed reports in Google Search Console • Updates and sessions coming to the DIY SEO course

Tips this week include: • What the cause was for my site email issues that cropped up after the host move • An update on how things are going at the new host • The new quick video blog promotion experiment I ran over the weekend • Who reached out with an offer because of that experiment • How my deep dive into the Teachable platform is going • What’s in WordPress 5.2 that releases today and why we’ll wait to update • The results of a massive Accessibility Audit on Gutenberg • Whether Chrome is really delivering a death blow to cookie tracking • New image and video schema markup in Yoast SEO • A primer for you to learn more about Structured Data and schema markup • Why we don’t care that Google shut off slivers of info from Search Console • More on the 3 new reports in Search Console that will help us with our schema markup and more • What’s in the release of Genesis 2.10

Tips this week include: • How and why to update to Yoast SEO 11 for better schema markup • A Content Revamp How-To Workshop this week for the DIY SEO course • A tutorial coming on how to export Yoast premium redirects to the Redirection plugin • An update on the Gutenberg course progress, and it’s a big milestone! • What I discovered about Yoast and Gutenberg • Why I’m staying narrowly focused on video creation for my hobby to money-making site • What’s in the re-introduction of the Genesis Authority Pro theme • Why the release date for WordPress 5.2 was pushed back a week • What’s up with cPanel offering forced HTTPS redirects

Tips this week include: • An Update on the Gutenberg Course progress you’ll really like • A request to tell me your special post/page creation needs for Gutenberg • The new videos I made for Heartwood Art and what I’ve learned from that • The ongoing tests for the Yoast SEO 11 update • What’s coming in Genesis 2.10 • The Group Block I’m very excited about coming in Gutenberg Phase 2 • Whether Chrome’s new lazy load function will knock ads stupid • A 2019 WP Site Maintenance Survey results post everyone should read

Tips this week include: • Upcoming DIY SEO Workshop series for doing a content revamp • WordPress API connection issues • Tutorial for how to whitelist your IP address in Cloudflare and why you need it • How my move to a new host went and where my sites call home now • My final SEO test for lazy loading images with 2 plugins • How I achieved a dramatic speed increase on one of my sites • What I’m working on now for the Gutenberg course • New posts on my woodworking site and how my first storyboarded video went • An update on the photo processing tool I’ll be using • A tutorial on a new image compression tool I tried that’s fantastic • Why I’m switching to a new image file format • How my final speed tests are going on my wood site for WP Fastest Cache and WP Rocket • What’s in the new Discover report in Google Search Console • Why the Google de-indexing bug is being compared to a virus and how it may affect your Search Console reports • 7 tools to create better researched content

Tips this week include: • I’m moving to a new host this week • The new Gutenberg course is well underway and what’s in it • Is there really an online course frenzy happening? I think so, and what I’m doing about it • Links to my speed test posts and the new ones on the way • A new Pinterest pinning methods post and podcast in the works • The latest post in my hobby to money-making site series on how my time in the music biz taught me to write posts • The new Block Manager and better column support coming in WP 5.2 • What you need to know about the new PHP version in the works • A super post for designers on the difference in font icons and SVG icons and why they matter for speed • 5 easy steps to increase your blog traffic and which ones may not be so easy

Tips this week include: • All site speed tests are complete, including YouTube video embeds and caching plugins • Why I put off my move to a new host for a couple of weeks • Why I’ll be hosting the new Gutenberg course on Teachable • Reminder of our DIY SEO bonus session today to discuss Yoast’s updated SEO guide • Reminder of our next DIY SEO workshop on Thursday for special formatting to get into voice search, snippets, and more, plus how to make lazy load work for you • The new posts on Heartwood Art and my continued focus on video for the fastest way to turn that hobby site into a money maker • The micro video production tool I’ll be trying • Reminder for Webmasters on the latest survey for your client types, Divi tutorials, and Performance training • What you need to remove from your social share and follow icon plugins • 3 new features added by SiteGround • Why you need to jump quickly on the Kickstarter campaign from She Podcast for their live event later this year • A live chat from Ms. Ileane Smith and special YouTube guest on the release of YouTube Studio coming out of beta • What’s in the WordPress 5.2 Beta just released • The contact form just integrated into the Genesis Revolution theme • A new post grid for Gutenberg Atomic Blocks that Genesis theme users will want to know about • Genesis designers will want to know about the recent Shapers chat for dev environments and code snippets

Tips this week include: • The big plugin hacks and how to protect your site • Full review, tips, and settings on the latest version of Social Pug • The triple high cost of a site hack repair compared to preventing it • The delightful surprise from my site speed tests that you’ll love • How my new hosting interviews are going and when I’ll be moving • Why I’m focusing squarely on my audience for the wood working site instead of money • Why we’re skipping a week in the DIY SEO live workshops • Why I’m not backing down on my position for what it takes to learn site security and performance • Sitemaps come to the new interface on Google Search Console • What’s up with Google Date Algorithm tweak and how it affects your content revamps • How to optimize Pinterest for discovery in 2019 • What’s in the latest Genesis 2.9.1 release • Why MailChimp parted ways with Shopify and why you need to care • 9 ways to stay inspired and avoid blogger burnout