As many of you guys will know, a big part of the SEO equation is gaining inbound links to your site. For those not so familiar, the other factors are related to on-page factors and URL factors.

To be honest, I have always been lazy about creating inbound links to my sites, I never really enjoyed that [...]

Maybe you are like me? We are the doers, we simply do things and get things done.

This may start with a to-do list or simply a plan in your head derived from a strong desire to accomplish something.

So we wake up each morning with a plan of action in mind and eager to start work on [...]

I was thinking of using up some credits that I have remaining on a traffic exchange network run by Paul Kinder in the UK called Traffic Splash.

At first sight it seems amazing to have such high exposure to your Ads, but in my experience, the conversions are not great.

They stress that you should use squeeze pages [...]

This is a major way to speed up content delivery of your blog.

The technique is known as caching of web pages. When you search on Google, you will often see a link to the “cache” version of a web page. This is basically a simplified snapshot of what your page used to look like the last [...]

One of the major causes of slow-loading web pages are large images.

Ways to fix this are to:

Optimize the image via compression settings that reduce the image quality
Use the best compression format for your image such as GIF, PNG or JPG
Pre-load images that are used on your website via code in the header of the site
Have one [...]

The second method to speed up your blog is to have all the Javascipt located near the end of the template.

The reason is because the visitor sees the visual elements first and these should be loaded first. The Javascript should be loaded last since it is invisible code and modifies your web page after it has [...]

Here, I am starting a series of posts that will teach you how to speed up your blog delivery to browsers.

The first step is to remove surplus, invisible code.

This is in the form of comments and white space.

The code for an HTML comment is:

<!- – Comment Text – ->

Typically, you will find these tags inserted into [...]