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Tips Tuesday – Release of BackupBuddy, Twitter API, MailChimp, and G+ Plugins
tips-tues-200Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include a new revision control on the WordPress code editor for themes and plugins, a responsive slider plugin, the new Twitter API, the release of BackupBuddy 4.0, a new WordPress Landing Pages plugin, unique caching for membership sites, how G+ and Gmail are messing up your analytics, bunches of Rich Snippet examples and how to do them, the release of the new MailChimp interface, and two plugins for G+ Hangouts to make them more like a webinar experience. So let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast. [More...]
The Future of Successful Site Ownership
Owning a successful online business has gotten radically more complicated in the last five years. With the addition of blogging, social media, SEO, video, and the constant changing of all platforms, site owners can hardly keep up. And, there are a lot of entrepreneurs capitalizing on those pain points, including BlogAid. I’ve been in the business of websites nearly 15 years and I’ve been reading the tea leaves and here’s what I predict is coming down the pike for site owners. I’m aligning my business to be in accordance with what I see in my crystal ball and you’ll be ahead of the game and in-the-know if you take heed too. [More...]
10 G+ Plugins for WordPress Comments and Imports
When Google introduced G+ Comments for Blogger, it caused quite a stir among WordPress users. They felt left out. But it didn’t take developers very long to produce several G+ related plugins for WordPress beyond adding a +1 button to the site. I found five plugins for adding comments, and five plugins for import/export of your blog posts to G+ or G+ activity to your blog, including some that also bring in comments. They all work differently, and some work far better than others. Plus, there are caveats to using any of them because none are officially sanctioned by either WordPress or Google. And, at least one may break Google’s Terms of Service. [More...]
Tips Tuesday – What’s Up with Hosting, YouTube Tutorials, and HTML5 is Coming
Hello Happy Site Owners! This is the BlogAid Tips Tuesday Podcast for June 11th 2013 and I’m your host, MaAnna. This week’s tips include Genesis 2.0 and HTML5, happenings at DreamHost, BlueHost, and HostGator, free images for your blog, no-hype copy that sells, YouTube One Channel tutorials, a new feature for MailChimp list subscribers in the new Gmail, and a super cool Google search feature that ties into G+. [More...]
Tips Tuesday – Comment Spam and Events Plugins, Penguin 2.0, Local Avatars
Hello Happy Site Owners! This is the BlogAid Tips Tuesday Podcast for June 4th 2013 and I’m your host, MaAnna. This week’s tips include an upcoming Live Workshop, Post Formats being yanked from WordPress 3.6, follow ups on my comment spam filter plugin and event calendar plugin trials, plugins to create local avatar images for site authors, new domain services from HostGator, a popup opt-in case study, and what you need to know about two recent announcements from Google on Penguin 2.0 and their new structured data tool. So let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast. [More...]
Nofollow and Cloak Your Links to Avoid Penguin 2.0 Penalty
If you use any type of outbound link on your site you will need to nofollow and/or cloak those links before you get a visit from the new Google Penguin. And you may have more links than you realize. In a recent video, Matt Cutts shed light on what Google is trying to accomplish with the Penguin 2.0 update that was recently released. In it he mentions the halt of floating Page Rank often. That comes from outbound links, especially advertorials. Those could be affiliate links, PPC (Pay Per Click), or even an innocent “Powered by” link on one of your plugins. Find out what you need to know about the links on your site and how to correct any issues so that the Penguin doesn’t pop your site on its analytic head. This is a rather long post with full instructions. Click here or the free report image to download a copy. [More...]
Post Formats Pulled from WordPress 3.6 Core
The new Post Formats UI feature for WordPress 3.6 has been pulled from the core and relegated to a plugin. Mark Jaquith announced the change on the Make WordPress Core blog yesterday, saying that it was a “hard decision” and that an “overwhelming consensus had been reached among the core developers” that the new UI, or User Interface was just not ready yet. This is the piece of the puzzle that has delayed the timely release of version 3.6. Jaquith said he should have made the decision to pull it earlier, but that letting it stay in would have been a worse mistake. Read on for the extraction plans and what this means for your site. [More...]
Tips Tuesday – Event Plugins and Penguin Updates
Hello Happy Site Owners! This is the BlogAid Tips Tuesday Podcast for May 28th 2013 and I’m your host, MaAnna. This week’s tips include a webinar on helping you fix your Google Account mess, security tips for your hosting and site, event plugins, and the latest on the rollout of the new Penguin 2.0 update. [...]
What Will it Take for You to Get Serious About Site Security
The global brute force attack is real. And it’s compromising sites left and right. I’ve been contacted by eight non-training clients to repair their site in the past 48 hours. All hosting companies have been hit. There is no such thing as a bullet proof site. There are several good precautions you can take, but only one real way to protect your site. Do you have to lose your site or your online authority and reputation before you get serious about site security? You’re an online business owner. Wake up and smell the attack bots. If you owned a brick and mortar would you leave the front door to your store wide open? Here are real-world examples of what’s happening right now and what you can do to protect all of your hard work. [More...]
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