WordPress SEO

Speed up your WordPress site with Google Page Speed

As I’ve mentioned before in previous articles that Google now takes your page loading speed into consideration when ranking your site. If you want to make your site load quicker then do what I teach here.

There are tools online which show you exactly how to speed up your site. They first analyse your site then provide a report with ways you can improve your sites loading time.

First you must install Google Webmaster Tools to get an idea on your sites performance. The tool shown in this video is what has helped me rank my site on page 1 of search engines.

The video below shows how you can monitor your sites speed, scan the site and then what you need to do to make it faster. Click to continue…

Check page titles and improve SEO

You must have keywords in your WordPress page titles. While doing some testing and searching online I found my own site and could clearly see where I was missing out on some SEO love.

Sometimes it’s just those really simple changes to your site which can improve your click through rate. A title tag and informative description can provide the user with enough information for them to make the decision and click on your link in the search results.

This WordPress tutorial video below shows how I made a simple change to my WordPress page title tag and doing this change will most certainly improve my SEO. I will post an update once I see the changes have been updated in the search engines.
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If you are tired of trying to get traffic and overloaded with SEO information then welcome to the club. There’s so much information on the internet that you can easily get bogged down with it all and end up doing nothing.

One thing I constantly tell my private clients is do a little bit of everything consistently and you will see good results.

Consistency is the key and combined with patience your sites SEO ranking will improve.

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Make images load quicker in WordPress

by David

This is one of the best plugins I’ve seen for a long time. It will make your web pages load faster, save you time and improve your site performance. In this video I show you how to quickly compress your images on your site. Site performance is something you should all be focusing on when [...]

Read the full article → January 26, 2012

Improve SEO and site usability in WordPress

by David
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Site usability plays an important factor in keeping your WordPress site visitors happy. When a user lands on a default 404 page you can be sure they will leave very quickly increasing your Google bounce rate. If it’s their first visit to your site they may not return. Now you have a problem which we [...]

Read the full article → January 9, 2012