Photos are an integral part of your travel blog. They add depth to your chosen topic and not to mention can work at filling your posting schedule if you are running short on time (that’s the excuse we use isn’t it). This is more a best practices post than a specific tech post but I’ve seen this done so often I wanted to have a little rant today because you really are missing out on good search traffic and I want to help you. By default my digital camera saves files in a format that looks like this “P1050801.JPG”. Your […]

A fast loading blog means a happy blogger and even happier readers. I recently wrote more on the topic in my first post about speeding up your blog where I listed some basic tips to keep extra information out of your WordPress blog so it runs lean and mean. If you haven’t read that then start there before continuing with this post as it’s the next step in improving the speed of your blog. Why do you need a caching plugin then? Well when someone visits your blog all of those lines of code that make up your site activate themselves. First […]

Having a slow website not only annoys you but probably your readers and not to mention the wrath that could be unleashed on you if Google gets upset. Before I get into this too much head on over to this great site at Pingdom and put your website through it’s paces. A test on RTW Labs leaves me with a full load time of 3.5 seconds, not bad but I know that I can improve it with a couple of changes. A general rule of thumb that I’ve seen written about a few times is to aim on having your […]