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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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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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