Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts

23 June 2009

How to make blog load faster

Once when our blogs took long time to load then our blog visitors may skip visiting our blog. Here is some of the tips to speed up the load time of the blog,
  • The no. of posts displayed in a page can be set to a maximum of 10 posts per page. Since when the no of posts get increased the content will get increased and hence the load time may also get increased.
  • Avoid using third party javascript widgets in your blogs since it may take a long time to load.
  • Avoid using videos and images in your blogs or if you use images optimize it either by slicing the image or reducing the quality of the image.
  • If we use third party services for images then we can use Picasa, Photo bucket etc to upload images and those links can be given as source link in our image link or else we can add a slide show from our web album in the side bar of our blog via picasa widgets.
  • If we use CSS then include it in the top header portion of the blog html since the external css may also take some time to get loaded.
These are the optimization tips for your blogs to improve the load time for your blogs.

Tips to create effective Blog

We can get enormous amount of benefits by creating a blog, but all it happens only when we write and promote blog in a effectively. Here is some of the tips to create effective blog,

Create great content:
  • Write well and often. A frequently updated site encourages people to return - as long as your content remains relevant and engaging. Instead of updating a blog daily with some rubbish contents update your blog at least weekly with a good and unique and useful information for users.
  • Follow webmaster guidelines in your blog to reach the people easily via search engine by optimizing the text, images and other high end graphics in your site.
  • Categorize your post with labels which will be easy and useful for the visitors to navigate and read the topics of their interests.
  • Make sure that crawlers and other bots finds your blogs on your site. Give link to blog from your home page and include sitemap page.
  • Avoid comment spamming, since the comments on your blog can help create a sense of community and discussion. Unfortunately, some spammers use the comment functionality to flood sites with spam.
Make sure that the readers and crawlers find your content:
  • Creative descriptive title to each posts in your blogs, it will attract visitors and each blog title can act as a page title and attracts search engine crawlers .
  • Connect with your online community, visit community blogs and forums participate in discussions and contribute your knowledge to answers and suggestions devoted to your subject matters along with your site's link for their further references. Which will increase the popularity and new visitors to our site.
  • Publish the feeds for your content, It is one of the effective way to reach your subscribers and search engines to intimate that we have updated our site with a new content. It will be intimating the crawlers to visit and index our updates as well as intimates our subscribers about the updates if they are interested then they may visit our site. It helps a lot in the perspective to attract new visitors to our site.
Thus follow these guidelines to build a effective blog to enjoy the benefits of blogs. In addition to these benefits once when we post a question in our blog the relative searchers may find the answers and post it in the comments hence helpful for us in gaining knowledge easily.

Importance of Blog

If you have a site but don't have a blog consider for creating a blog in your website. Since, Blog plays the important role in communicating with people of same interest about your products or to publicize your site or product. When your blogs are attracted by people then they may repeat visiting your site hence improving the conversion rate, avg. time on site. The following are the advantage of using blog,
  • Hence as a result our sites web traffic will get improved.
  • The subscriber list may also get increased.
  • conversion rate will be improved
  • Attracts people of same interest hence pulling unique visitors and more new visitors to our site.
  • Easiest way to publicize our products and our policies.
These are the various advantages of using blog in websites.