What’s Making Our Websites Slow? We Are!

What’s Making Our Websites Slow? We Are!

I’ve been working in customer support for a premium caching plugin (WP Rocket) for several years now. I’ve seen a lot of websites and helped a lot of customers. Every day, many times a day, in our ticket queue, we receive some version of this question:

“Why isn’t my site faster?”

Depending on the site there may be many answers to this question. However the answer is almost never anything to do with caching.

A caching plugin, nor any one optimization technique can fix all performance issues. In fact, as site owners we can be our own worst enemy when it comes to speed, due to all the content we’ve put on our pages.

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The Complete Guide To Using The Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

The Complete Guide to Using The Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

Yoast SEO is possibly the most well-known SEO plugin for WordPress and it has a lot of features. But a lot of people mis-use the plugin, thinking that simply installing and activating is all that’s needed, or mis-using features like Focus Keyword.

This guide explains all of the features, which settings to use and how to use important features correctly, to optimize your content. SEO isn’t a one-step process that can be handled with the activation of a plugin. It requires your participation as well!

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WordPress Black Friday Deals On Hosting, Plugins And Themes

WordPress Black Friday Deals on Hosting, Plugins and Themes

Thanksgiving weekend in the US means that there are lots of deals to be had on WordPress treats! If you need web hosting, domain names, plugins etc, now’s the time to get the best discount of the year. Keep reading for my own recommendations on some juicy holiday deals. Most will expire after the weekend, so act quickly!

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