I asked Brian D. Hawkins of HotBlogTips to share with us his tips for optimizing images in blogs: When designing a website or adding images to a blog post, size does matter... file size that is. The larger the file size, the slower the page load time and that can be bad news for your PageRank. Improving page load speed can help your PageRank and bring you higher in the search engine results. Image optimization plays a large part in overall page load times. The Balance In order to optimize your … [Read more...]
PageRank Down? How to Improve Site Load Speed
Another possible cause of dropping PageRank - and even worse - potential loss of organic search traffic - is slow load time. Most WordPress blogs are not loading nearly as quickly as they can and there ARE some great tools out there to assist us in speeding them up. … [Read more...]
PageRank Down? WP Plugin Checks for Broken Links
Bloggers are noticing changes in their Google PageRank starting yesterday. Those whose PageRank dropped may want to check their sites for broken links. There is an easy way to do that using a popular WordPress plugin Broken Link Checker for WordPress. This plugin finds and lets you repair broken links and it does much more: … [Read more...]