How Fast is Your WordPress? Optimization Tips and Tools!

Is your WordPress site slow to load? Are you looking for ways to speed up WordPress or get better performance? While WordPress is a fantastic platform, one of its weaknesses is that it can become sluggish.

But, just because your website takes a long time to load, it’s not a signal that you should ditch WordPress in favor of some other content management system (CMS). Having a slow-loading site is certainly something you should address immediately, however. WordPress page speed can be often neglected by some WordPress developers, they develop your site without often thinking about page speed. Now that Core Web Vitals have been added as part of the page speed ranking factor it’s important to clear with your WordPress developer or WordPress development agency exactly what they will be doing and if optimization for Google page speed is included in your cost.

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How Can You Best Grab an Influencer’s Attention?

Enstine wrote and published a smashing guest post on my blog recently. Read it here:

The Fail-Proof Method to Connect with Top Bloggers (and What Not to Do!)

Any time I read a highly successful blogger like Enstine, a light bulb clicks and I need to share an idea to give new or struggling bloggers clarity. I pondered the thousands upon thousands of hours pros like Enstine and I put into becoming established bloggers.

Visualizing our practice, our creating and our connecting, I quickly observed how we grab influential blogger’s attention spans regularly. How?

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5 hot tips to Create Infographics that Your Readers Will Love to Share

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Infographics have grown in popularity over the years.

Unlike long-winded blog posts, infographics are visually stimulating in nature. The best ones have stunning designs that you can’t help but read and ogle from top to bottom.

In fact, this single statistic is why you need to incorporate infographics into your content strategy:

According to Venngage, 40% of marketers agree that infographics improve audience engagement.

They not only make sharing content much easier, but they also help readers process information faster!

However, designing them is no walk in the park.

Sure, there are tools to help you create one that you can feature on your blog post and share on social media.

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Find Your Blogging Specialty – Beware of Jack of All Trades Syndrome!

Successful bloggers find, focus on and cultivate their blogging specialty.

Everybody else tries mastering a wide range of blogging skills. Being a jack of all trades guarantees you master none. Meanwhile, bloggers who find and master one core skill through diligent practice become successful because you make a huge impact by doing one thing incredibly well.

My blogging specialty is writing. I love writing and write fairly well too. Knowing this, I write 4-5 blog posts daily between guest posts and posts on Blogging From Paradise. I give most attention and energy to writing because writing is my talent especial.

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January 2020 Commenting Report: 150 readers made 201 comments!

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January 2020 is over. That means we are beginning to feel the new year.

It’s really been a busy month for me. There has also been an increase in my natural traffic too. I will soon be publishing a report on the exact things I did to get those results.

150 readers took their time to drop 201 comments which is great. Many of these comment authors are new timers and I do highly appreciate the engagement.

One thing that happened was Neil Patel’s post mentioning CommentLuv plugin. As a result of the post, I had a little more engagement on this blog and on this post. You know I have Commentluv premium enabled, giving you dofollow links from the comment section of this blog.

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How to Publish 1000 Guest Posts on a Single Blog!

I published my 1000th post on Blogging Tips Dot Com a few days ago.

I want to share my thinking – and action – process with you to help you be more prolific.

Blogging is simple but sometimes scary. Why? We bloggers face our fears daily. Either you turn around or keep going. Writing and publishing 1000 guest posts on a single blog challenged me many times. I feared running out of ideas, losing profits and wasting my time. After conquering these mental blocks I intend to inspire you to be prolific as well.

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