Fotojet: a beautiful web design solution for non graphic designers
Anyone can now be a graphic designer with Fotojet I am pretty much a novice when it comes to photo editing or creating cool designs, I have tried using Adobe…
Oh **** my blog has just gone off line!! 4 lessons in backup
So What Happened? Hopefully when you started your blog you decided to implement a backup solution? I thought I would share my learnings from seeing my blog (livingthetech.com) go off…
Why everyone should try to blog at least once in their lives?
Why blog? Well, I thought I would give blogging a go by actually creating my own site, instead of producing content for others I wanted to continue to develop my own personal…
How to enable AMP on your blog– simple tips and useful plugins
What is Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? AMP is a Google backed project designed as an open standard for any publisher to have pages load quickly on mobile devices. On Feb. 24,…
W3 Total Cache, Cloudflare & Autoptmize reduce page load speed by 50%
Caching overhaul Over the last few months I have been looking at ways to speed up my site and to improve the general User Experience. Since I started my blog last…
Finding your blogging rhythm and SEO improvements to old blog posts
Finding your blogging rhythm and SEO improvements to old blog posts A big part of my work this month has been to go back and look at old posts with…
How I got my site ranked on the first page of Google in 24 hours
Ranked on the first page of Google I was really struggling with getting my article’s to be ranked on the first page of Google, which I hoped would ultimately lead…
How to further optimise blog performance and SEO improvements
How to further optimise blog performance and SEO improvements I have slacked off a bit this month, producing no where near the amount of content (only 4 posts) compared with 14…
How to increase blog traffic and get more views – simple tips
How to increase blog traffic, content and readability This month there was a huge effort to increase blog traffic and content and it was my best so far in terms of…
A beginners guide to Twitter in 5 simple steps
Starting out on Twitter This tips may seem obvious to some but to a novice tweeter like myself who in hindsight lacked a plan or purpose for how he was going to use Twitter…
Social sharing buttons and WordPress, do they impact performance?
Social Sharing Buttons Problem: Poor site load time, affecting user experience, due to social sharing buttons How did I measure performance: Used an awesome tool to measure my blog’s performance from pingdom, which not…
How to improve blog responsiveness & SEO a novice bloggers view
Its all about sharing: Whilst carrying out research on SEO and blog optimization for my site livingthetech.com, I found some really useful resources along the way, most are detailed below: …