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Wordpress SEO Optimisation

I’ve recently being looking at the Google Page Rank of one of my sites.

A Taste of Garlic is a blog review site where I review, on a daily basis, blogs by people who have moved to France. It gets between 1,200 and 1,600 visitors a day but remains with a Google Page Rank of 3, the same it had when it was only getting half that number of unique visits.

I was reading around the subject and noticed that many SEO advisors suggested that it was vitally important that the <title>Title</title> change for every post/page.

That caused me some concern!

Here’s why….

A few months ago I did some work to speed up A Taste of Garlic – I wrote about it here – Six ways to speed up Wordpress.


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Posted in Software, Wordpress on January 20, 2011 | There are currently No Comments

Six ways to speed up WordPress

Introduction

Recently I have noticed that one of my sites,  A Taste of Garlic seemed to be loading slower than before.

I determined to do something about speeding it up.

Starting with some of the hints and tips found on Computing Unleashed I had a delve around to see what I could do.

Normally I connect to the internet via a caching proxy server – for the purposes of this experiment I configured Chrome to connect direct.

To measure any changes in website performance I used the excellent tools at http://tools.pingdom.com


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Posted in Software, Wordpress on September 9, 2010 | There are currently 1 Comment

Is Chrome the new Firefox?

A History Trip….

Can you remember way back in the depths of time when Firefox was version 1.5 and was really the only alternative to Internet Explorer apart from Opera (which would have been moving from the advert displaying version to the non-advert displaying version at around about that time if my memory is not misleading me) and Ubuntu hadn’t taken off and Netbooks didn’t exist unless, like me, you were sad enough to remember the Toshiba Libretto (great machine, by the way!)

I guess we’re talking about the back-end of 2005 because it was then that I was given an old laptop and my three years of not owning a PC came to an end.


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Posted in Software on July 1, 2010 | There are currently 3 Comments