BlogAid Podcast

Tips this week include: • How a full HTTPS conversion saves and makes you money • How to embed a video using iFrame code for faster page loads • A new member level coming for site audit clients • Why I’m not surprised that Google Authorship isn’t dead after all • Huge news for foodie bloggers with the launch of the new Google Smart Display • An update on my recipe plugin tests and a clear winner is emerging • A look at the new Transport Layer Security version that just released • What the Let’s Encrypt milestone of being trusted by Microsoft means for you • The big font change by Gutenberg that all designers will want to know about • A report on what it’s like to use Gutenberg and how it could radically disrupt your content creation process

Tips this week include: • New Site Audit Client Flash Challenges and why we’re doing them • A GoDaddy data breach that may affect you, and an update on that report • How to restore a plugin update to the previous version • Mixed reactions to the Try Gutenberg invitation in WP 4.9.8 • My Gutenberg tutorial schedule • What’s up with SiteGround no longer offering free cPanel migrations • Results on that massive Google Algorithm update at the first of the month • The settings I’m checking in Yoast SEO for category archive pages • Recipe plugin tests almost finished

Tips this week include: • A sneak peek at what’s coming from BlogAid for the rest of 2018 including 4 new courses • Why hiring the help you need is a good idea • What’s in WordPress 4.9.8 and the first thing you need to do after you update • What’s in the latest Genesis update • The huge Google Algorithm update that whacked some sites hard • How to watermark your blog images, plus the pros and cons of it • The message Facebook is really sending with the shutdown of their API for auto-posting • A super post on the top reasons visitors leave your site and how to fix them

Tips this week include: • The new BlogAid theme is live!! • A new Happy Clients page with success stories that just blew me away • My new Gutenberg posts have launched, and more on the way • WordPress 4.9.8 releases today and how to turn off the Try Gutenberg invitation • The reports I’m seeing of the latest hacker probing attempts and how to protect your site • What has me nervous about a new site cloning feature from UpdraftPlus • What’s up with Google testing a new layout for images with titles • Finally! Some corroboration about why you need to stop chasing green dots in Yoast • New schema markup for speakable news posts • 4 ways to write better blog posts immediately

Tips this week include: • A call for Happy Client stories • New Gutenberg posts on the way • Why you need to upgrade your hosting to PHP 7 right away • A check to see if your backup solution is complete • The Not Secure warning for non HTTPS sites rolls out with Chrome 68 today • Who just bought Stone Temple Consulting, and what this means for SEO tips for us • A very interesting interview with Joost de Valk on what the future holds for voice search • Synonyms finally come to the Yoast SEO content analysis tool • What the top 10 OWASP security holes are on your site, and an easy way to plug them • A new migration tool from SiteGround and why you don’t want to use it • 7 tips to get you unstuck with blogging and generating new ideas

Tips this week include: • How theme design impacts site load speed • The big changes I’m getting all of us site owners ready for, and when they will hit • The new courses coming to the DIY SEO training • WordPress 4.9.8 release schedule and what’s in it that you don’t want to use • HostGator and Bluehost rumored to be down, and perhaps why • The GDPR cookie plugin I see the most folks using • A new place to get great free images for your blog and social media

Tips this week include: • Tips for doing your own content revamp that make it so easy • The SEO of deleting old content • An update on the recipe plugin schema markup tests • A site audit client story about how great it feels to know what you’re doing • The hoohaa around the WordPress 4.9.7 security release and who I’m mad at about it • How and why to turn off auto updates for WordPress, and what you have to be super vigilant about afterward • What’s in the Genesis 2.6.1 recent release • It’s confirmed! The Google speed update rolled out July 9, and what this really means for your site • Why a voice app for your site might be in your future • The reality of keyword research and why I don’t teach it • 5 ways to get your blog post to go viral • Why a writing style matters for your blog – and how to improve yours

Tips this week include: • Why I’m doing a theme revamp on BlogAid even with Gutenberg rolling out soon • New Flash Challenges coming to the DIY SEO course • The high cost of putting off moving to a better host • Foodie bloggers getting emails from Google Search Console for missing schema markup • Yoast SEO 7.7 update has a new snippet editor • StudioPress has been acquired by WPEngine and what that means for Genesis theme users • An issue with the preview for Pinterest shares with the Shared Count plugin • A new bug for the Cloudflare plugin when using PHP 7.2 at your host

Tips this week include: • How much free site help from your host is costing you • Live site audit and speed session for Webmaster Level 6 members • How to renew your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on SiteGround if you use Cloudflare • A new aggregate speed index from Google PageSpeed Insights • Examples of the slimy SEO industry tricks that you’re competing with • An update on the recipe plugin schema markup tests • How to get more social shares on your blog posts and why this is good for SEO too • How to jump on Google now letting us verify the Knowledge Graph it carries on us • A site speed case study that shows you how to improve conversion rate • The big news with a new online shopping sales tax law being passed • 10 super unique blogging tips that will break you out of your rut and give you a fresh mindset

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include whether upgrading to WordPress 3.6 will break your theme, news on the release of Genesis 2.0, the winner of the best site caching test, an opt-in widget for the corner of your site, a new Feedly widget, and a new You Tube Subscribe Button plugin, a premium plugin for doing super Meet the Team layouts, alternatives to resource sucking plugins, another one of those cool Google Drive presentations, what you’ll have to do to access the Google AdWords Tool, hashtags on G+, a cool way to create memes on G+, a G+ Community Starter Guide, and some encouragement on making small strides on YouTube that lead to bigger things. So let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This is the BlogAid Tips Tuesday Podcast for July 30th 2013 and I’m your host, MaAnna. This week’s tips include a new WordPress magazine, a customizer for Contact Form 7, why webinars are great for your clients, why semantic search is changing everything, plus semantic SEO strategies for copywriters, a hot conversation on using Google Plus to promote your blog, plus some super fun things you didn’t know about Google Drive that you’ll want to play with right away, and a new YouTube Subscribe button. Plus, be sure to leave room for dessert, because I’ve got that too. So let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include what’s up with WordPress news sites and what it means for the future, coupons come to Gravity Forms, a great plugins resource, getting personal on your blog, the future of SEO copy writing, a reality check on chasing your dream blogging job and what’s in it for baby boomers, tips on getting started with G+, and finding your peeps in Communities, plus new classes coming for Hangouts. A huge tip about the changes to Gmail. And tips on working with the new MailChimp interface, plus a YouTube One Channel feature that sent my marketing imagination into overdrive. So let’s get started. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include WordPress updates, vBulletin forum security alert, an update on the Broken Link Checker plugin, a Video XML Sitemap Generator plugin, unexpected consequences when a post goes viral, busting myths about membership sites and passive income, what a Sneeze page is for, Google Webmaster Tools updates, and a handy round up of help all in one place for getting started with G+. So let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include a Site Security Audit special, what’s broken with the Broken Link Checker plugin, the WordPress SEO plugin going premium, two video related plugins, a nice new feature for the Contact Form 7 plugin, a new Rich Snippet Site Report plugin, a plugin for gigging musicians, and a new MailChimp Form Plugin. Plus, who’s winning the browser wars, and how to setup a video studio for under $90 bucks. So let’s get started. Listen to the podcast. Featured Hey, I want to send a shout out and thank you to Ana Hoffman for including BlogAid in her Traffic Generation Cafe weekly round up on July 6th and to Vernessa Taylor for including BlogAid in the inaugural round up post on Famous Bloggers that will introduce bloggers to more of their peers in the blogosphere. It's very encouraging when your work is shared like that. WordPress Security I want to invite you to go have a look at this post on Moz.com. And you don't have to do anything with it, just look. It's The Denfinitive Guide to WordPress Security. It's an excellent post and a glimpse of what it takes to make your site secure. If you don't know if all these things are being done on your site, then they probably aren't. Because of all the recent security breaches, I've decided to run my annual Site Security Audit special a little early this year. I generally only offer this once a year during the week between Christmas and New Years. And it books solid within a couple of days. So, this time I've decided to extend my availability to two weeks at the discounted price so I can help more folks. Now, I've already put this out to my newsletter subscribers and slots have already started filling up. And now I'm making it available to my loyal Tips Tuesday followers. Tomorrow I'll put out a blog post on it to everybody. So, get your preferred slot saved now. WordPress Plugins Some of the links below are to the plugin developer’s page, but you can find most if not all of these plugins in the WordPress plugins repository. The Broken Link Checker plugin had a serious security issue reported by WPSecurityLock.com on Sunday. Deactivate now, and you can keep it that way for a while. I want to thank my buddy Cyndi Papia at Office To-Go for alerting me to this. As she says, it takes a village to keep us all safe. I went to the support forum for the plugin and saw that the malware is reported to be in the translation files. I didn't see any response from the developer there, but that doesn't mean that it's not being worked on it. There is something else you may want to consider about this plugin while you have it deactivated. WPEngine is one of the managed host providers that actually disallows it simply because it puts too much load on the server. I don't use it for that reason and because I found that it triggered too many false positives, which was a waste of my time. If you know of a better plugin for checking broken links, or if you have an opinion about the SEO effect of broken links, along with some data to back it up, please share that in the comments. As Cyndi said, it takes a village and I encourage you to participate in a conversation about it. - - - - - - - - I want to send a shout out to Jason Bradley over at WP Daily for the tireless job he does on the daily plugin updates. The list actually broke 100 recently. Yep, over 100 plugins added or updated that day. I only report on the ones here that I know my clients use or I think they may want to know about. But, you should jump on over to WPDaily and see these reports for yourself too. You'd be amazed at what's available. - - - - - - - - I'm wondering why this took so long to happen. Yoast is finally making a premium version of his WordPress SEO plugin, and rightfully so. I appreciate the way he explained why in his recent post about it. Most plugin developers spend an enormous amount of time on support, both on the coding side and in the plugin forums. So,

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include what you need to know about WordPress security these days, a new User Avatar plugin that doesn’t rely on Gravatar, settings for the WordPress SEO plugin, how to fix missed scheduled posts publishing, bunches of updates to Gravity Forms, what the heck is going on with HostGator lately, and what affect the Genesis 2.0 update will have on your current site when it comes out. So, let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast.