HOME | BLOGAIDBLOGTIPS TUESDAYSITE SERVICESRESOURCESCLASSESVIDEOS Your Site Success Starts Here. Hi, I’m MaAnna, and I assist business-minded bloggers who are hands-on in managing their own websites and serious about making money with a speedy, secure site.. I also train webmasters and designers on the techie side of site security, performance and more. HOME | BLOGAID LEARNING CENTER The new Video SEO Booster course is in beta. Keep reading Tips Tuesday for when it will be available to the public soon!! HOW TO RUN A SITE SPEED TEST ACCURATELY Tutorial Highlights. Here’s a quick look at the post we will be using in this tutorial. It’s on my Heartwood Art woodworking site. And I removed a couple of the optimization tweaks I use so we can see some of the new Core Web Vitals data that gets flagged. WP FASTEST CACHE SETTINGS The minification in most all plugins is more aggressive than Cloudflare and will generally render better speed.. The free version of WP Fastest Cache has less aggressive settings than the paid version. The more aggressive settings are grayed out on the free

version.

BEST BROWSER FOR WORDPRESS SITE OWNERS Between Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer, you may have a favorite browser that you like for personal use. But, one of them is far better than the others for managing WordPress. Read on to see my two top picks and why you will want to use them HOW TO ADD GOOGLE ANALYTICS TRACKING CODE TO YOUR SITE Tutorial Transcript. In this MaAnna Minute tutorial you’ll see three ways to easily add your Google Analytics code directly to your site

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HTTPS AND WWW VS NON WWW: WHICH IS BEST TO USE? Typing in www has fallen out of vogue with the rise in mobile web surfing, so many site owners have elected to drop it. But, is that good for SEO? And what about cookie tracking across sub-domains? Discover if www or non is the best fit for your site and how to ensure Google knows your preference, and how not to confuse your SEO, especially with HTTPS involved. GOOGLE CORE WEB VITALS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND DO MaAnna is a geek who can still speak in plain English. She helps DIY site owners plus webmasters and designers create sites that are

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SHOULD YOU CONVERT OLD CONTENT TO GUTENBERG BLOCKS? Will the TinyMCE editor be available after WordPress drops support for the Classic Editor in 2021? It’s worth asking because the Gutenberg Classic block depends on TinyMCE for editing our older content that has not been converted to separate Gutenberg blocks. Discover what you need to know about this important editor element and whether you should get busy converting your older content to HOW PINTEREST WIDGETS SLOW PAGE LOAD AND BEST Bringing anything into your site from social media will radically slow page load time. Pinterest images are, by far, one of the worst offenders. See just how much a Pinterest widget slows down your page load, and a super easy widget alternative that will still send visitors directly to your Pinterest boards. HOME | BLOGAIDBLOGTIPS TUESDAYSITE SERVICESRESOURCESCLASSESVIDEOS Your Site Success Starts Here. Hi, I’m MaAnna, and I assist business-minded bloggers who are hands-on in managing their own websites and serious about making money with a speedy, secure site.. I also train webmasters and designers on the techie side of site security, performance and more. HOME | BLOGAID LEARNING CENTER The new Video SEO Booster course is in beta. Keep reading Tips Tuesday for when it will be available to the public soon!! HOW TO RUN A SITE SPEED TEST ACCURATELY Tutorial Highlights. Here’s a quick look at the post we will be using in this tutorial. It’s on my Heartwood Art woodworking site. And I removed a couple of the optimization tweaks I use so we can see some of the new Core Web Vitals data that gets flagged. WP FASTEST CACHE SETTINGS The minification in most all plugins is more aggressive than Cloudflare and will generally render better speed.. The free version of WP Fastest Cache has less aggressive settings than the paid version. The more aggressive settings are grayed out on the free

version.

BEST BROWSER FOR WORDPRESS SITE OWNERS Between Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer, you may have a favorite browser that you like for personal use. But, one of them is far better than the others for managing WordPress. Read on to see my two top picks and why you will want to use them HOW TO ADD GOOGLE ANALYTICS TRACKING CODE TO YOUR SITE Tutorial Transcript. In this MaAnna Minute tutorial you’ll see three ways to easily add your Google Analytics code directly to your site

without a plugin.

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secure, perform

SHOULD YOU CONVERT OLD CONTENT TO GUTENBERG BLOCKS? Will the TinyMCE editor be available after WordPress drops support for the Classic Editor in 2021? It’s worth asking because the Gutenberg Classic block depends on TinyMCE for editing our older content that has not been converted to separate Gutenberg blocks. Discover what you need to know about this important editor element and whether you should get busy converting your older content to HOW PINTEREST WIDGETS SLOW PAGE LOAD AND BEST Bringing anything into your site from social media will radically slow page load time. Pinterest images are, by far, one of the worst offenders. See just how much a Pinterest widget slows down your page load, and a super easy widget alternative that will still send visitors directly to your Pinterest boards.

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ADD FEATURED IMAGE TO MAILCHIMP RSS TO EMAIL WITH POST Adding a featured image to an RSS email seems like a simple thing to do, but it isn’t. In fact, WordPress does not natively support the proper tags to make it happen. Even if it did, MailChimp only supports it if you show the full content. I researched and tested until I finally found a super plugin and the right settings to make it all

work.

HOME | BLOGAIDBLOGTIPS TUESDAYSITE SERVICESRESOURCESCLASSESVIDEOS Your Site Success Starts Here. Hi, I’m MaAnna, and I assist business-minded bloggers who are hands-on in managing their own websites and serious about making money with a speedy, secure site.. I also train webmasters and designers on the techie side of site security, performance and more. HOW TO RUN A SITE SPEED TEST ACCURATELY Tutorial Highlights. Here’s a quick look at the post we will be using in this tutorial. It’s on my Heartwood Art woodworking site. And I removed a couple of the optimization tweaks I use so we can see some of the new Core Web Vitals data that gets flagged. HOME | BLOGAID LEARNING CENTER The new Video SEO Booster course is in beta. Keep reading Tips Tuesday for when it will be available to the public soon!! BEST BROWSER FOR WORDPRESS SITE OWNERS Between Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer, you may have a favorite browser that you like for personal use. But, one of them is far better than the others for managing WordPress. Read on to see my two top picks and why you will want to use them WP FASTEST CACHE SETTINGS The minification in most all plugins is more aggressive than Cloudflare and will generally render better speed.. The free version of WP Fastest Cache has less aggressive settings than the paid version. The more aggressive settings are grayed out on the free

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without a plugin.

WHAT IS AN .HTACCESS FILE AND WHY DO I NEED ONE? All websites have a master gatekeeper that provides the initial security for every type of site visitor, both human and bot. It also controls the redirection of traffic and tells browsers what to do with the data from your site. Discover all of the critical features in the .htaccess file and how having a good one improves your site security

and performance.

HTTPS AND WWW VS NON WWW: WHICH IS BEST TO USE? Typing in www has fallen out of vogue with the rise in mobile web surfing, so many site owners have elected to drop it. But, is that good for SEO? And what about cookie tracking across sub-domains? Discover if www or non is the best fit for your site and how to ensure Google knows your preference, and how not to confuse your SEO, especially with HTTPS involved. STOP YOUR BULK EMAILS FROM GOING TO SPAM Major email providers like Gmail, Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo are all adopting a new DMARC policy to stop mass spammers. And the bulk emails you send to your subscribers may end up in their spam folder because of it. If your email list is your gold mine, then you need to be in-the-know about what’s going on. This post is an invitation to cut through the noise, the misinformation, and put our HOW PINTEREST WIDGETS SLOW PAGE LOAD AND BEST Bringing anything into your site from social media will radically slow page load time. Pinterest images are, by far, one of the worst offenders. See just how much a Pinterest widget slows down your page load, and a super easy widget alternative that will still send visitors directly to your Pinterest boards. HOME | BLOGAIDBLOGTIPS TUESDAYSITE SERVICESRESOURCESCLASSESVIDEOS Your Site Success Starts Here. Hi, I’m MaAnna, and I assist business-minded bloggers who are hands-on in managing their own websites and serious about making money with a speedy, secure site.. I also train webmasters and designers on the techie side of site security, performance and more. HOW TO RUN A SITE SPEED TEST ACCURATELY Tutorial Highlights. Here’s a quick look at the post we will be using in this tutorial. It’s on my Heartwood Art woodworking site. And I removed a couple of the optimization tweaks I use so we can see some of the new Core Web Vitals data that gets flagged. HOME | BLOGAID LEARNING CENTER The new Video SEO Booster course is in beta. Keep reading Tips Tuesday for when it will be available to the public soon!! BEST BROWSER FOR WORDPRESS SITE OWNERS Between Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer, you may have a favorite browser that you like for personal use. But, one of them is far better than the others for managing WordPress. Read on to see my two top picks and why you will want to use them WP FASTEST CACHE SETTINGS The minification in most all plugins is more aggressive than Cloudflare and will generally render better speed.. The free version of WP Fastest Cache has less aggressive settings than the paid version. The more aggressive settings are grayed out on the free

version.

HOW TO ADD GOOGLE ANALYTICS TRACKING CODE TO YOUR SITE Tutorial Transcript. In this MaAnna Minute tutorial you’ll see three ways to easily add your Google Analytics code directly to your site

without a plugin.

WHAT IS AN .HTACCESS FILE AND WHY DO I NEED ONE? All websites have a master gatekeeper that provides the initial security for every type of site visitor, both human and bot. It also controls the redirection of traffic and tells browsers what to do with the data from your site. Discover all of the critical features in the .htaccess file and how having a good one improves your site security

and performance.

HTTPS AND WWW VS NON WWW: WHICH IS BEST TO USE? Typing in www has fallen out of vogue with the rise in mobile web surfing, so many site owners have elected to drop it. But, is that good for SEO? And what about cookie tracking across sub-domains? Discover if www or non is the best fit for your site and how to ensure Google knows your preference, and how not to confuse your SEO, especially with HTTPS involved. STOP YOUR BULK EMAILS FROM GOING TO SPAM Major email providers like Gmail, Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo are all adopting a new DMARC policy to stop mass spammers. And the bulk emails you send to your subscribers may end up in their spam folder because of it. If your email list is your gold mine, then you need to be in-the-know about what’s going on. This post is an invitation to cut through the noise, the misinformation, and put our HOW PINTEREST WIDGETS SLOW PAGE LOAD AND BEST Bringing anything into your site from social media will radically slow page load time. Pinterest images are, by far, one of the worst offenders. See just how much a Pinterest widget slows down your page load, and a super easy widget alternative that will still send visitors directly to your Pinterest boards. HTTPS SITE CONVERSION SERVICE Full HTTPS Conversion. Get your site truly converted to HTTPS. No trickery, no plugins, no cover ups. See the Top 10 Reasons NOT to Use Free HTTPS from your host for more details on what you may be missing.. Full Conversion Includes: Pre conversion checklist to catch mixed media and other “gotchas” and actually fix them, not cover them up with redirects

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WHAT IS AN .HTACCESS FILE AND WHY DO I NEED ONE? All websites have a master gatekeeper that provides the initial security for every type of site visitor, both human and bot. It also controls the redirection of traffic and tells browsers what to do with the data from your site. Discover all of the critical features in the .htaccess file and how having a good one improves your site security

and performance.

HOW TO POINT OR TRANSFER A DOMAIN NAME Pointing a domain to a new host is different from transferring a domain to a new registrar. While these two terms confuse most site owners, it’s important that you know the difference between them so that you can successfully manage your domains. Learn what you need to do when you move your site to a new host, including how it affects

your site email.

GOOGLE CORE WEB VITALS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND DO MaAnna is a geek who can still speak in plain English. She helps DIY site owners plus webmasters and designers create sites that are

secure, perform

STOP YOUR BULK EMAILS FROM GOING TO SPAM Major email providers like Gmail, Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo are all adopting a new DMARC policy to stop mass spammers. And the bulk emails you send to your subscribers may end up in their spam folder because of it. If your email list is your gold mine, then you need to be in-the-know about what’s going on. This post is an invitation to cut through the noise, the misinformation, and put our WORDPRESS DATABASE TABLE PREFIXES MaAnna is a geek who can still speak in plain English. She helps DIY site owners plus webmasters and designers create sites that are

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where you

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SHOULD YOU CONVERT OLD CONTENT TO GUTENBERG BLOCKS? Will the TinyMCE editor be available after WordPress drops support for the Classic Editor in 2021? It’s worth asking because the Gutenberg Classic block depends on TinyMCE for editing our older content that has not been converted to separate Gutenberg blocks. Discover what you need to know about this important editor element and whether you should get busy converting your older content to WORDPRESS REST API AND CLOUDFLARE WAF ISSUES MaAnna is a geek who can still speak in plain English. She helps DIY site owners plus webmasters and designers create sites that are

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where you

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version.

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and performance.

SHOULD YOU CONVERT OLD CONTENT TO GUTENBERG BLOCKS? Will the TinyMCE editor be available after WordPress drops support for the Classic Editor in 2021? It’s worth asking because the Gutenberg Classic block depends on TinyMCE for editing our older content that has not been converted to separate Gutenberg blocks. Discover what you need to know about this important editor element and whether you should get busy converting your older content to WORDPRESS REST API AND CLOUDFLARE WAF ISSUES MaAnna is a geek who can still speak in plain English. She helps DIY site owners plus webmasters and designers create sites that are

secure, perform

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your site email.

GOOGLE CORE WEB VITALS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND DO MaAnna is a geek who can still speak in plain English. She helps DIY site owners plus webmasters and designers create sites that are

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work.

HOME | BLOGAIDBLOGTIPS TUESDAYSITE SERVICESRESOURCESCLASSESVIDEOS Hi, I’m MaAnna, and I assist business-minded bloggers who are hands-on in managing their own websites and serious about making money with a speedy, secure site. I also train webmasters and designers on the techie side of site security, performance and more. I deliver tutorials and courses in non-geek speak that will help you get to

where you

WORDPRESS SITE SERVICES BlogAid offers a variety of site services! Site audit – find all the security holes and performance drags. Migrate to new hosting – consult and project management. Migration / Audit Combo – saves you money on both services. Rebranding – change your site’s domain name. Secure site setup –

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Live, step-by-step sessions covering WordPress, SEO, content, conversion, plugins, and more. Private training site. Pre and post migration checklist to ensure everything is perfect for launch. Fully secure, turnkey site setup on your newly launched site. Bonuses as you go including Genesis Premium framework and child theme of your choice. BEST BROWSER FOR WORDPRESS SITE OWNERS Between Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer, you may have a favorite browser that you like for personal use. But, one of them is far better than the others for managing WordPress. Read on to see my two top picks and why you will want to use them HTTPS SITE CONVERSION SERVICE Pricing. Since all sites are different, HTTPS conversion is an hourly service. We start with a pre-conversion checklist of site elements affected by conversion, like: mixed media. theme. your social share counts. connected 3rd party accounts. health of your database. current

redirects.

WP FASTEST CACHE SETTINGS The minification in most all plugins is more aggressive than Cloudflare and will generally render better speed.. The free version of WP Fastest Cache has less aggressive settings than the paid version. The more aggressive settings are grayed out on the free

version.

HOW TO ADD GOOGLE ANALYTICS TRACKING CODE TO YOUR SITE 4 Ways to Add GA Tracking Code. There are two easy ways to do this, one techie way, and one Google way: Add the code via an insert header/footer script plugin – #1 recommended way. Add the code via the header/footer script area of your theme – #2 recommended way. Add the code to the header.php file of your theme – techie way.

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secure, perform

HOME | BLOGAIDBLOGTIPS TUESDAYSITE SERVICESRESOURCESCLASSESVIDEOS Hi, I’m MaAnna, and I assist business-minded bloggers who are hands-on in managing their own websites and serious about making money with a speedy, secure site. I also train webmasters and designers on the techie side of site security, performance and more. I deliver tutorials and courses in non-geek speak that will help you get to

where you

WORDPRESS SITE SERVICES BlogAid offers a variety of site services! Site audit – find all the security holes and performance drags. Migrate to new hosting – consult and project management. Migration / Audit Combo – saves you money on both services. Rebranding – change your site’s domain name. Secure site setup –

WORDPRESS TRAINING

Live, step-by-step sessions covering WordPress, SEO, content, conversion, plugins, and more. Private training site. Pre and post migration checklist to ensure everything is perfect for launch. Fully secure, turnkey site setup on your newly launched site. Bonuses as you go including Genesis Premium framework and child theme of your choice. BEST BROWSER FOR WORDPRESS SITE OWNERS Between Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer, you may have a favorite browser that you like for personal use. But, one of them is far better than the others for managing WordPress. Read on to see my two top picks and why you will want to use them HTTPS SITE CONVERSION SERVICE Pricing. Since all sites are different, HTTPS conversion is an hourly service. We start with a pre-conversion checklist of site elements affected by conversion, like: mixed media. theme. your social share counts. connected 3rd party accounts. health of your database. current

redirects.

WP FASTEST CACHE SETTINGS The minification in most all plugins is more aggressive than Cloudflare and will generally render better speed.. The free version of WP Fastest Cache has less aggressive settings than the paid version. The more aggressive settings are grayed out on the free

version.

HOW TO ADD GOOGLE ANALYTICS TRACKING CODE TO YOUR SITE 4 Ways to Add GA Tracking Code. There are two easy ways to do this, one techie way, and one Google way: Add the code via an insert header/footer script plugin – #1 recommended way. Add the code via the header/footer script area of your theme – #2 recommended way. Add the code to the header.php file of your theme – techie way.

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