BlogAid Podcast

This week’s tips include new security patches for WordPress, a glitch in the WordPress SEO plugin, a new MailChimp plugin, a Rich Snippets plugin, the Blubrry Powerpress plugin update, finding free photos for your blog posts, making affiliate marketing better, and how SEO is affected by those big pretty sliders on a site, plus how a glitch in Google indexing can cause you public embarrassment. So let’s get started. Listen to the podcast.

Hello 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.

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+.

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.

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. So, let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast. Featured I hope you will join me and my special guest, Ronnie Bincer, for a free webinar tomorrow to help you Fix Your Google Accounts. It’s Wed. May 29th at noon Eastern. Yes, there will be a replay, but folks who attend live will have access to me and Ronnie right then. You can really help yourself get ahead and ready to take full advantage of the webinar by mapping out your current Google Account connections ahead of time. Download this free report that has all the how-to info.  WordPress Tips On the WordPress 3.6 project schedule page, they've actually crossed out the dates for the first and second release candidates and the final launch date. They are about three weeks behind at this point and we're still in the Beta 3 version. ------ I've been working around the areas where they're still working out the bugs and continue to update the video library. I'm bringing all of them up to date for current web standards and to account for differences in how things are done if you are using a premium theme such as Genesis, which most all of my clients are on. And, I'm making brand new videos too that include more topics that I cover in my one-on-one training classes. So be sure to go visit the Video Library to see what's new. Security Tips I got an email from HostGator saying they would be porting my site over to a new server with upgraded cPanel and such. Said it may require changing the DNS or IP. That made me suspicious. If you ever get an email like this, call to check to see if it is legit. Never change your DNS or IP until you know for sure because it is a hacker/spammer tactic. I called, it is legit. Better safe than sorry. ------ The global botnet is still on the loose and taking down sites all over. Several folks have contacted me in the past couple of weeks to fix their sites. Let me be very clear about this. Nowhere on my site do I advertise that I offer emergency site services. What I do advertise all over my site is prevention and education and here's why. It's a whale of a lot cheaper and peaceful. Chaos is something we avoid at BlogAid as much as possible. I do have good relationships with folks who can fix your site, though. One of them is a company called FixMyWP. They also offer maintenance packages. Maintainn also offers maintenance packages. They are both run by super folks and I highly recommend them. But nobody on the planet can save you from your own ignorance. You're a site owner. And all sites live in a bad neighborhood called the Internet. Read my post What Will it Take for You to Get Serious About Site Security and learn what you need to know to be a responsible site owner and protect your biggest asset and investment. 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. As you know, I've been doing webinars more regularly and I'd like to find an events plugin to help me display them better on my site. I also have a client who wants to just post events. Neither of us need to take registrations through the plugin. We checked out The Events Calendar plugin. But to tell you the truth, what it displays is pretty ugly formatting. The pro version is a little better, but not much. I'm checking CalPress. it has decent formatting and the sidebar widget shows the date like a day calendar. I also saw that the Events Handler plugin was recently updated. It seems to have a lot of nice features, but sure wish the developer had thought to put screenshots in the info so I could preview before installing.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This is the BlogAid Tips Tuesday Podcast for May 21st 2013 and I’m your host, MaAnna. This week’s tips include the latest host hit by the rolling brute force attack, a plugin to give you accurate bounce rate stats, a new comment spam filter plugin, big updates to Gravity Forms, a clue that Google is focusing on brand pages, conversion tips that work, and guides to help you get YouTube One set up. So let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include new audio support coming in WordPress 3.6, a new testimonial plugin, a new Feedburner replacement, a sneak peek at the Genesis 2.0 update and who they just hired as the new Creative Director, a new offe...

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include the big news for audio and video in WordPress 3.6, new plugins to keep your site safe from the attack bot, a peek into the future of SEO from Yoast, and a batch of blogging tips including creating purpose driven content, and pulling yourself out of content creation hell, as well as when you just need to walk away for a while. And, I have an easy to understand explanation for you about what the canonical version of a URL is and why you need to know about it. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include an interview I’m jumping up and down happy about, updates on the changes coming in WordPress 3.6, news about the new G+ Comments plugin that you must know before you even think about trying it, a plugin to help managing multiple sites, news on plugin security breaches, a new plugin that works like Akismet for the brute force attacks, a post to challenge what you think you know about SEO and online marketing, and updates on the party over at G+. So let’s get started. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This is the BlogAid Tips Tuesday Podcast for April 23rd, 2013 and I’m your host, MaAnna. This week’s tips include special offers and new webinars I announced at my presentation for WordCamp Nashville 2013 this past weekend, news on the imminent release of WordPress 3.6, an explanation on authorship by one of the top SEO gurus, a setting on YouTube that is just nuts, a super duper guide on getting started with podcasting and beyond, how to make the most of the SlideShare platform, and what’s up with Blogger. So let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast.

tips-tues-200Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include why the shutdown of Google Reader is making some folks yawn, a super easy way to make a radical improvement on your site, the rise of managed hosting, a new media file manager plugin that will appeal to folks with lots of photos and files, a new plugin for Genesis themes, tips on doing SEO on G+ for creative people, the skinny on Open Graph and Twitter Cards, and new posts from Google that nearly made me fall out of my chair. So, let’s dive in. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! This week’s tips include info about a couple of new series I’ll be running on BlogAid, continuing news of what’s happening with RSS feeds, new gallery and watermark plugins, plus a new digital signature plugin I tested, and news from Yoast on his new focus. Plus, new premium themes, and big news for ThemeForest and WooThemes. And, help for workaholics, and serious SEO perks for being active on G+ from one of the top SEO guys in the world. So let’s get started. Listen to the podcast.

There comes a time in every site owner’s career where they have to make a tough decision to completely change their business. That may mean gradual changes to their existing site or completely shutting down and doing something else. I’ve done both. In fact, I’m doing one of them now. I’m making sweeping changes to BlogAid for the sixth time in four years. I’m still here. And business is great! I’ll tell you why I never fear drawing a line in the sand, why starting over is the best thing ever, and how you can free your mind, Neo, to the truth that things can be completely different and brilliantly better than ever. Listen to the podcast.

Hello Happy Site Owners! Welcome to the BlogAid Tips Tuesday Podcast. I’m MaAnna and I’ve got a lot to share with you this week including a super duper G+ Webinar, a must have plugin for SEO on images, a new plugin to test your site, ways to sell downloads on your site, two new plugins that jumped to the top of my testing list, and a new plugin from Yoast that gives me chill bumps. Plus, I’ve got a follow up on last week’s post on the feedback I heard from you and a progress report on my journey to make YouTube the number one referral source of traffic to my site. It starts with untangling all of my Google Account emails. So, let’s jump right in. Listen to the podcast now

Hello Happy Site Owners! Let’s have a little chat today, just you and me. And I do mean you and me, because I want to hear from you today about what you need the most help with. What is frustrating you with your site, your marketing, your confidence? What’s needlessly eating up your time, or keeping you awake at night? I want to know because I’m making sweeping changes to BlogAid where we’ll have a lot more opportunities to dialogue together and I really do want to know how I can best help you become a truly confident and successful site owner. Listen to the podcast.