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Blogging Tips: A Faster Loading Site (Part 4)

Posted on November 25, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

So far we’ve covered images, data compression and JavaScript. Today we’re going to cover CSS (cascading style sheets). CSS is what’s used for a lot of design elements for your site. Not every site uses CSS but damn near every site does and likely yours does too. It can be used for defining the type of fonts that are used on your site to the actual layout of your site. CSS is pretty powerful and easy to use which is why most sites make use of it in one form or another.  Read more... (669 words, 1 image, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

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Blogging Tips: A Faster Loading Site (Part 3)

Posted on November 10, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

So far we’ve covered some basics with images and then some more technical stuff with compression. This time we’ll dial it back a bit and do some more basic stuff that anyone can do regardless of your choice of blogging platform.  Read more... (549 words, 1 image, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

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Blogging Tips: A Faster Loading Site (Part 2)

Posted on November 7, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

The first part of the article was pretty simple stuff and something every site can utilize. This part is going to get more technical but will also be where you may see the biggest impact so hang in with me here.  Read more... (625 words, 1 image, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

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Blogging Tips: A Faster Loading Site (Part 1)

Posted on November 4, 2011 07:00 am by Thor

The other day I was messing around with my blog and decided to see how large of a footprint it was. What I mean by that is every site has a footprint, which is to say how large the site is in terms of kilobytes or megabytes. All the images on your site, the text, etc, all adds up and is then delivered to the people visiting your site. Obviously the more text you have and the more images you have the larger your site is. There are other factors we’ll get into later.  Read more... (956 words, 2 images, estimated 3:49 mins reading time)

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Blogging Tips: Improving Your Home Page

Posted on January 24, 2011 10:28 am by Thor

When someone visits your blog the first thing they see is your home page, or as I prefer to call it, your index. This is your one chance to gain a new reader. If someone is stumbling across your blog then you need to grab their attention right away, give them reason to stay and not only read your current article but also to dig through your older posts. The design of your blog is a superficial way to accomplish that. I’m sure we’ve all dug through blogs that looked great just because they looked great. However, if you’ve nothing to back up that great design then it does you no good. In the end you’re at a blog to read, not to gawk at an amazing design. So, I plan to talk about those things that any blogger can do, not just the digital artists.  Read more... (816 words, 1 image, estimated 3:16 mins reading time)

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Blogging Tips: Comments

Posted on January 10, 2011 08:57 am by Thor

We’ll change gears from how to increase your blog traffic to comments on your blog. Comments let us bloggers know that people are reading our stuff and they care enough to reply. Comments are probably the most sustaining feature of a good blog. Getting a lot of comments on an article is the difference between something that’s forgotten in a day to something that lives on weeks after it was posted. You want people to comment on your articles, to discuss it, so you need a way for them to do that.  Read more... (650 words, 1 image, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

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Blogging Tips: Improving Your Traffic (Part 2)

Posted on January 3, 2011 09:25 am by Thor

The last traffic improving tip discussed some basics and meta tags. Now we’ll discuss links in your blog.  Read more... (640 words, 1 image, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

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Blogging Tips: Improving Your Traffic (Part 1)

Posted on December 28, 2010 09:42 am by Thor

I’ve only been really blogging for about 10 months, however my full time job is as a PHP programmer for a web hosting company. I may still be learning about blogging but I have good knowledge regarding the technical side of things. So, I thought I’d start a helpful little series to help bloggers get the most out of their blog. I’m not going to bog this down in technical jargon. My aim is to keep it simple and clear.  Read more... (565 words, 1 image, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

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