19. 01 Tip Section #1: Speed
Install WP Super Cache
With GZIP enabled!
20. 02 Tip Section #1: Speed
Move .htaccess directives to your
server config (if possible)
And disable .htaccess parsing.
21. 03 Tip Section #1: Speed
Combine CSS files into one
big CSS file
Same goes for JavaScript,
which should be loaded in the footer.
22. 04 Tip Section #1: Speed
Use CSS sprites
Ask your developer if you don’t know
what this is.
23. 05 Tip Section #1: Speed
Add a PHP opcode cache
Pick one, all are better than having none.
24. 06 Tip Section #1: Speed
Kill some plugins...
And try to replace them for similar ones.
Some plugins are god awful.
25. 07 Tip Section #1: Speed
Still slow? Switch to better hosting.
WestHost rocks, go to
http://www.westhost.com/blog-yoast.html
(yes that’s an affiliate link)
36. 16 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Backup your database
every few hours
Use Lester Chans WP-DBManager plugin
37. 17 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Optimize your database every day
Using the same WP-DBManager plugin
38. 18 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Backup your files every day
Use WordPress Backup:
www.blogtrafficexchange.com/wordpress-backup
39. 19 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Check your queries
Use the Debug Queries plugin to check for
plugins gone mad
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-queries/
40. 20 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Run Akismet
Kill those spam comments.
41. 21 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Check the referrers for comments
http://tools.davidnaylor.co.uk/
42. 22 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Remove those nonsense widgets
Technorati rank? Wel.... OK
Blog value: nonsense.
43. 23 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Track your uptime
Use Pingdom, or another tool,
but be the first to know when your blog is down.
44. 24 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Check 404’s
Use the 404 notifier:
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/404-notifier/
and fix them using Redirection
45. 25 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Remove unneccesary meta info
// Remove Really simple discovery link
remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link');
// Remove Windows Live Writer link
remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link');
// Remove the version number
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');
54. 32 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Use Google Analytics
(and my plugin for it)
55. 33 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Use RSS link tagger
rebelic.nl/rsslinktagger
56. 34 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Track traffic coming from Twitter:
yoast.com/twitter-analytics/
57. 35 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Install canonical URL’s so your
Analytics doesn’t
interfere with your SEO
58. 36 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Use comment redirect to track first
time commenters
59. 37 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Track comments as a goal!
Use an onclick javascript with a minor delay.
60. 38 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Track RSS subscribers
the same way
61. 39 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Start optimizing:
which traffic leads to
more subscribers?
And yes that means forgetting about Digg.
62. 40 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Use my blog metrics plugin
Improve yourself each month!
63. 41 Tip Section #6: Shameless plug
Bonus tip #41:
Can’t fix it? Don’t have the time to?
Hire me & my team to do it for you:
joost@orangevalley.nl
+31 6 24 555 808
