I have written a lot of guest posts for several blogs, I have been featured and interviewed on some big blogs, I have implemented a lot of traffic generation strategies on my blog and all these together combined has sent tens of thousands of visitors to my blog. But guess what happened? I lost them all.
When it comes to this don’t be surprised because I’m not alone. I’m not the first person this will happen to and I won’t be the last, but what matters isn’t whether it happens to you or not but what you do about it.
I have also discovered that the more traffic and visitors I lose the more lessons I learn and the easier it becomes for me to make effective use of the traffic I get to my blog. This article will be explaining some great lessons I learnt from getting and losing thousands of visitors to my blog.
1. Preparation is Most Important
The fact is it doesn’t matter how sticky your content is, how great your blog is or how branded you are, you have to understand that you can’t get all new visitors to always return to your blog so you should always do your best to prepare for them.
When it comes to preparing for new visitors to your blog there is no set rule and what you have to do will depend on what the aim of your blog is. If the aim of your blog is to make more long-term income and to get more long-term traffic the best thing to do will be to capture your new visitors to your email list and if the major aim of your blog is to make more affiliate sales the best thing to do will be to refer them to your affiliate landing page. Also, if the major goal of your business is to get more clients you will get more results by referring your new visitors to your services page than to refer them elsewhere.
Know what the main aim of your blog is, direct all your traffic efforts to it and you’re good to go.
2. Make Sure the Day is Safe
When I was still a new blogger I once wrote a quality guest post for a big blog that can send me more than 2 times the number of daily visitors to my blog in just one day only to wake up to see that my blog has been suspended by my host the same day my guest post was published. It was all my fault and it was because I didn’t take precautions.
If you’re expecting an influx of traffic to your blog on a particular day make sure you take other measures and know what to do should there be problems. You should also do your best to be in good term with your host so you won’t be a victim of circumstances.
3. Quality Content is Important
There was a day a single guest post of mine sent me over 1000 visitors. This particular day, I didn’t experience any problem with my host, my blog was in good order and according to me everything was perfectly okay but I made a very grievous mistake most new bloggers make, I paid little attention to my content. The end result was that very few visitors from that guest post ever returned.
People are reading your blog because they want a solution to one problem or the other, not because they are bound to do so. Always make sure you deliver the best of your content to your readers and it will be easier for your traffic to grow.
These are good tips. It is great that you could learn from your mistakes and keep going strong.
Thanks for sharing this. Why was your blog suspended?
Don't worry. you will get all your visitors back if they are visiting this post. It looks like a fact.
Thanks a lot for the comment Ana, I really appreciate it
I've considered the implementation of a blog to our own website recently but am not sure if my business sector would welcome it?
Nice post though.
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first thing anyone can see how well you wrote any blog if they read this forum. most of the time people are fail to produce results but everybody should try to learn from their mistakes like you. one of my website were in trouble with so many many problems some code changes and all all but today its is so informative in sense of christian hospitality and food recipes…more more information about holy food and religious food please go through this site http://holy-food.org/..
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I tried buying traffic once..some kind of pop-under program. I got many page visits but think this hurt my traffic ranking on Google
All great points Onibalusi, but I think the biggest lesson when it comes to blogging is to never give up! Sure you can change strategies, change hosting, change blog design, change direction and so on, but the key is to keep trying until you find something that works.
Running a successful blog, like everything else in life, is a result of a lot of hard work and dedication. The amount of time and effort you put into your blog will be reflected in your traffic.
Could agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
Couldn't agree with you more, Alex! There are so many people looking for the quick buck, not willing to do what it takes to succeed. There are so many websites out there, each vying for your attention. But, without the hard work and quality content, what reason do the readers have to keep coming back?
There are some people that expect that once you put up a website all you have to do is sit back and count the money coming into their bank accounts. We've all seen it before. There are a lot of big promises made by unscrupulous so called Internet experts who write "HOWTO" articles that lead people to believe that all they have to do is put up a website or blog and you can become rich. What they don't touch on is the amount of work and effort that has to go into making sure that there is a continued reason for your website visitors to keep coming back to the site.
There is no magic formula, nor is there an easy, sure-fire method for generating tons of repeat traffic. It's all about the continued hard work that you are willing to put in to make sure that your project succeeds.
My recent post Top 10 Resources to Ensure a Successful Blog
hmm you efforts must be appreciated that you have put in building this awesome blog.. very nice one..
very useful tips. once my friend said: "remember that you have to write for people, not for the search engines". and this is really truth. thanks for the article
Absolutely correct.. The search engines are not people that are looking to consume the content that you create. There is nothing that you can teach or inform a piece of software. People are and always will be the intended target of your writing. You must make sure that you write to them.
Sure strategic keyword placement and effective titles and image alt tags are going to be in your strategy in order to bring the people to your site, but if that is all that you focus on, then you will not be able to keep the readers intrigued so that they come back to read more of your articles.
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Absolutely correct.. The search engines are not people that are looking to consume the content that you create. There is nothing that you can teach or inform a piece of software. People are and always will be the intended target of your writing. You must make sure that you write to them.
Sure strategic keyword placement and effective titles and image alt tags are going to be in your strategy in order to bring the people to your site, but if that is all that you focus on, then you will not be able to keep the readers intrigued so that they come back to read more of your articles.
My recent post Become a Famous Blogger
Absolutely correct.. The search engines are not people that are looking to consume the content that you create. There is nothing that you can teach or inform a piece of software. People are and always will be the intended target of your writing. You must make sure that you write to them.
Sure strategic keyword placement and effective titles and image alt tags are going to be in your strategy in order to bring the people to your site, but if that is all that you focus on, then you will not be able to keep the readers intrigued so that they come back to read more of your articles.
My recent post Become a Famous Blogger
Absolutely correct.. The search engines are not people that are looking to consume the content that you create. There is nothing that you can teach or inform a piece of software. People are and always will be the intended target of your writing. You must make sure that you write to them.
Sure strategic keyword placement and effective titles and image alt tags are going to be in your strategy in order to bring the people to your site, but if that is all that you focus on, then you will not be able to keep the readers intrigued so that they come back to read more of your articles.
My recent post Become a Famous Blogger
Absolutely correct.. The search engines are not people that are looking to consume the content that you create. There is nothing that you can teach or inform a piece of software. People are and always will be the intended target of your writing. You must make sure that you write to them.
Sure strategic keyword placement and effective titles and image alt tags are going to be in your strategy in order to bring the people to your site, but if that is all that you focus on, then you will not be able to keep the readers intrigued so that they come back to read more of your articles.
My recent post Become a Famous Blogger
Absolutely correct.. The search engines are not people that are looking to consume the content that you create. There is nothing that you can teach or inform a piece of software. People are and always will be the intended target of your writing. You must make sure that you write to them.
Sure strategic keyword placement and effective titles and image alt tags are going to be in your strategy in order to bring the people to your site, but if that is all that you focus on, then you will not be able to keep the readers intrigued so that they come back to read more of your articles.
My recent post Become a Famous Blogger
That correct . Lot of people usually find their hosting problem in the last minutes. It is important because the day maybe a day that you would like to post a new post or that day would have a campaign that will bring you a large traffic but your hosting maybe unable to support.
Hosting is important , make sure that your hosting able to support your traffic and 99.9 percent uptime.
Mostly people would shift to higher package or using cloud hosting to reduce those issues happen.
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features possible without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
My recent post HowTo Securing WordPress Tips and Hacks
Yes, your hosting will play a big part of your website/blog availability and the ability of your site to handle a big influx of visitors. Some of the other things that you want to focus on are:
- Be sure that you are not using too many plugins. Each WordPress plugin that you install chews up more of the CPU and memory on your host's servers. Try to implement as many features without the use of plugins as possible.
- Make sure that your images are well optimized for the internet. Smaller image files, or even better the use of image sprites will aid in the quick loading of your site.
- Minify and optimize your CSS files. Be sure not to over qualify your CSS, use efficient CSS selectors.
- Minify and optimize your JS files. Be sure not to use multiple JS libraries (JQuery, MooTools, etc). Choose one and try to find plugins that support your library of choice.
- Enable browser cache & GZIP in Apache with .htaccess – this will make sure that your server isn't working so hard so that you will be able to accommodate more visitors.
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