How To Lose a Lot of Readers

[freedombreather]

Now that Google takes into account how fast your blog loads, now is the time to make sure that yours is up to par (also, most readers will move on to the next site if yours takes too long to load). Take these simple steps and watch your blog grow:

#1 When you use image editing software, always use the "save for the web" feature. Or, you can use an online image optimizer.

#2 If you go to cleancss.com it will essentially clean up your web code and get rid of all the uneccessary fluff that makes pages load longer.

#3 When giving out your link, make sure that your include a slash at the end of your web address. This reduces the amount of time it takes the server to figure out what kind of file yours is.

#4 Get rid of those useless elements on your page that slow your site down. A good site that evaluates how fast your website is: www.tools.pingdom.com

#5 I personally have not tried this one, but I hear it is worth it. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ will make your site appear to load faster to users.

Good Luck and let me know if I can help. -Christine from NextLevelBlogs (http://www.nextlevelblogs.com)

[blings]

Wow! Thought I am no longer a novice to SEO and blogging, I am still surprised with the information presented in the article.

I never really thought that missing the slash at the end of a web address could cause your site a problem. Thank God it has been a norm for me to add that character everytime I link to any web pages of my site.

Additionally, I think it would also be better to avoid utilizing large images on videos and only employ them when really necessary. Depending on the server load, an image with a considerably large file size might cause you trouble with loading time from time to time. My address to this issue is to keep on figuring out ways to translate images into something that is css generated. Also, if an image can obviously tiled, I would go for a pixel image and just tile it using css declaration.

[robertreich]

I like what you post about seo. I have been searching for latest techniques and strategies also in Seo. I guess this is a big help.
Thank you so much for the ideas.

[newbie2010]

Good tips here but why to lose readers?