Software by tag 'optimization'

5 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress.org Blog For Search Engines

March 10th, 2010 in SEO | View Comments

Any search engine optimization (SEO) expert or enthusiast will tell you WordPress.org (the self-hosted one) is the foundation for a blogger wants to get optimal traffic from Google. Its the only blog platform that offers complete control of your search engine optimization features.

“You don’t buy a BMW automobile and then let the manufacturer choose what your radio plays, or how fast you drive. Don’t let the same thing happen to your blog!”

WordPress.org is required for these 5 quick ways to blog search engine optimization.

Want a more complete list of SEO plugins for your self-hosted WordPress blog? Read our WordPress SEO plugins list.

All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack provides overwrite control for your blog site, page, post, and category titles, descriptions, and keywords. Perfect because you don’t have to depend on the SEO expertise of the theme developer who sometimes leave these critical elements out of the code, or give you little access to them. Screenshot from my plugin:

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7 Tools To Optimize The Speed of Your Website

December 15th, 2009 in Tools | View Comments

Google recently announced that it’s algorithm will factor in page load speed in addition to the other 200 or so ranking factors currently employed. This move, broadly welcomed by web developers and users, means it is now more important than ever to optimize the speed of your websites. Speed optimisation will not only keep Google happy, it will keep visitors engaged, increasing user retention and activity, as well as reducing your bandwidth and hosting costs. It’s a real win-win situation.

Using the tools explored below, you’ll be able to pinpoint exactly what’s slowing you down as well as get advice and recommendations on how to make the necessary improvements. Each tool is slightly different, but you need not use them in isolation. The best results come from utilizing a portfolio of speed optimisation tools to ensure you’ve got all the bases covered.

Still remember the WordPress web optimization article? If you are a WordPress user, i believe both these articles will bring benefit to your blog’s loading speed, as well as your page rank.

Yahoo! YSlow

YSlow is perhaps the user-friendliest of all the speed optimisation tools, useful for beginners and experts alike. It analyses web pages and suggests ways to improve the performance of your web site based on Yahoo!’s 34 best practices. These are divided into seven categories: content, server, cookie, CSS, JavaScript, images and mobile.

YSlow, which is a Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug (which you have to install first), judges web pages according to one of three pre-designed rule sets or a rule set of your own making. In addition to advising you on how to improve your web site’s speed it also summarizes each page’s components, displaying in-depth statistics.
Yahoo! YSlow

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