You might have heard some talk about how compressing your web pages helps with your site’s SEO, but how does it help and how can you use it on your site? This article will provide you with some details on what file compression is and why it’s essential to the process of optimizing your site. [...]
Hosting requirements Installing Joomla! for the first time is very easy. Joomla!’s built-in installer makes setting up your new site a breeze. Before we start installing Joomla!, there are a couple prerequisites that need to be met to install successfully: Hosting – whether you have a dedicated server, or shared hosting plan, you’ll need some [...]
The first thing you need to do to install WordPress is to download the latest installation package. Make sure that you download WordPress only from the official download page. Once the download is complete, extract the archive and upload it to your web hosting account. You can do that via FTP using a client application [...]
You’ve almost certainly heard the word “blog” before and you might have a rough idea of what a blog is, but as you will see opinions may differ a lot, and some time to better understand and clarify what you are about to embark on, is always a time well spent. The word blog is [...]
At some point, each and every blogger faces the same issue. It’s the bane of our existence and the great quandary causing us to scratch our heads. Here are some ideas for how to get more traffic to your blog. Leave thoughtful comments on other people’s blogs. Write shorter posts. Blog consistently. Write less. Be a [...]
Unless your page is among the top of search engine results, no one will know your page exists. The Internet consists of BILLIONS of web pages and millions more appear every day. This page will help improve your search engine rankings and page quality using the secrets and tips we learned over the past twenty-years. [...]
As SEOs, one of the most important ranking factors we focus on is PageRank. There’s no missing it in the SEO realm – PR is a big deal and everyone wants to get their hands on some. However, in our haste to gather our high PR links, many of us completely misunderstand what it is [...]
Canonical URL’s have been a much neglected aspect of in page SEO for quite some time now, but webmasters are now realizing that this small attribute can actually jeopardize their entire SEO campaign to ashes.Simply put, if you have a canonical URL error issue then your own blog eats up ,well….your own blog! To understand [...]
Page loading times are now a crucial part of website optimisation, they are starting to be taken into consideration more and more by the algorithms of top search engines. For example, an ecommerce site which takes a long time to load will often result in a poor user experience; this in turn may lower the average time spent [...]
Even though internet speeds are getting faster by the day, it is important that you ask your web development company to create for you a website that is light, easy to load and fast to navigate on. Among the many elements that can slow your website down, images is the most common factor. To be [...]