A Slow WordPress Blog May Be Hurting Your SEO Rankings
… and the experience customers have when they visit your site.
What’s the best way to speed up your WordPress site I hear you ask?
Do a search online and you’ll find numerous articles with a ton of technical suggestions, the most common being, add a caching plugin or get a better web host.
Is that really the best approach? In these quick videos I’ll show you how to start with a Page Speed Test and why the best way to Speed Up Your WordPress Blog may not be changing hosts. In the follow up video I’ll even show you why jumping the gun and paying for a third party external caching service (CDN) is the last think you should consider.
Live Case Study:
Watch this quick video and see how two WordPress Blogs running the same WordPress Theme on the same managed WordPress Hosting account can have dramatically different YSlow and Page Speed Rankings.
Video One:
https://vimeo.com/159867085
I’ve used a free tool called GTMetrix that ranks your site and then provides a list WordPress optimization options and fixes to implement. Use it to check out your sites rankings!
