Have you been searching for ways on how speed up your WordPress? Actually site speed is undeniably not to be taken for granted and this must be a great concern to you to sustain your web site in the World Wide Web.

Here are some of the effective techniques to achieve a supersonic speed on your blog.

1. Unused Plugins should be Disabled

You need to assess whether you require the plugins that you have installed and determine if they necessarily serve a useful function. Also, you need to deactivate plugins that you have not deleted since it can possibly build loopholes and back doors that hackers can use it to exploit.

2. Install a Caching Plugin

You must have to install a caching plugin to decrease the load time for the blog’s pages. It will also help ease the work on the hosting server.

3. Select the Right Web Host

Since there are many web hosting companies out there who claim to be the best of its kind, you should not be enticed by their claims. You must choose the web host that are reliable to achieve optimize and efficient blogs on your web site.

4. Use Less External Scripts

Having too many scripts installed that come from different providers can help increase the loading of your blog since they came from an external source. That is why it is best to use external scripts so as not to affect the performance on your site.

5. Check for Hacks & Other Exploits

There are many threats lurking just around the bend such as malicious codes that can cripple the performance on your website. It is recommended that you must check regularly for these malicious items to get rid of them instantly.

6. Optimize Your MySQL Database

By optimizing MySQL database on your blog can help reduce the load on your hosting server and can also help improve the loading time.

7. Reduce the Number of Images

Images can help bring out the overall outlook of your blog. However, you must have to limit in using images. Remove unnecessary pictures and images that you think are not necessary on your web site.

8. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

This is a network that can optimized servers around the world that contain all the copies of the data on your web site. This can also help in reducing the time in loading your site. What’s more? This really works best particularly if you have visitors wherever they are in this world since the servers closest to them can help deliver the content faster.

9. Avoid Flash Content

Flash can consume a lot of time to load so it is better not to use flash as your main design on your web site.

Use these simple techniques and you will surely increase your speed in an instant.

This article is written by Dave Cooper, who also writes for tweakwindows7.net, a site emphasizing on windows 7 tweaks.

If you’ve been wondering why your blog hasn’t ranked high or why your readership has declined, it may be due to a lack of SEO optimization. Sure, you may have quality content and eye-catching titles, but unless you’ve taken the necessary steps to choose the right keywords for your articles, you may not see much improvement. Keywords have an extremely important role in search engine optimization and the success of your blog. Along with having current, quality content, bloggers also want to have specific keywords that draw in readers and, hopefully, earn you some money. Here are some helpful tips to choosing and implementing the right keywords for your blog:

Brainstorm a Few Keywords

Before or after your article has been published online, you’ll want to spend some quality time brainstorming a few keywords that will get your blog indexed in major search engines. While you’re brainstorming, it’s a good idea to go to a popular search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, and type in keywords that relate to the topic you’re writing about. This will help you see what results come up and what other keywords your competitors are using. The best way for bloggers to choose their keywords is to think like their potential readers and search as they would.

Use Two or Three Keyword Combinations

Now that you know what keywords are popular, you’ve got to tweak your keywords to make them stand out among your competitors. It’s highly unlikely that single-word keywords will get you high rankings for very long, or at all. Non-specific one-word keywords are used by thousands of bloggers every day, and using them will only make it harder for your blog to get ranked high. The most effective keywords typically contain two to three words. You should think about common and highly specific words or phrases that readers are most likely to type into a search engine. In other words, don’t simply choose “cooking” as one of your keywords; try “cooking for one” or “organic cooking” to narrow your focus.

Utilize Online SEO Tools

In your pursuit to find the best keywords for your blog, it’s a good idea to take advantage of the awesome SEO tools that are right at your fingertips. Google AdWords is a terrific tool for researching the competition and global and local monthly searches for certain words or phrases. This keyword tool will help you tweak your current keywords to include less competitive words and better word arrangements. While on this site, check out the price of individual keywords. If you have a Google Adsense campaign, this will give you a better understanding of how much or how little you’ll earn. It can be enticing to choose keywords that are worth more money, but you may not notice a difference in your ranks if the keyword competition is high. Niche subjects with less competitive keywords are still a better bet for your blog.

By-line:

Mariana Ashley is a freelance writer who particularly enjoys writing about online college. She loves receiving reader feedback, which can be directed to mariana.ashley031 @gmail.com.

Today is our 12th day of WordPress Master 25 Days program.

If your are visiting this blog first time or you have missed any one unit of WordPress master 25 Days program then you must read previous units which I have compiled in single post.

• My 7 Days at WordPress Master 25 Program

Today is our 12th Day of WordPress Master 25 Days Pro.I know how important is Search Engine Optimization for any blog to get the traffic,Search Engine Friendly Url optimization is one of the SEO part of your blog.Here you can find the tips on Search Engine friendly urls customization.

Day #12: How To Customize Search Engine Friendly Urls

Step:#1

Login to the Admin panel of your WordPress blog.

Step #2:

Click on Permalinks under the Setting tab on the dashboard.

See the image below:

You’ll find following url structure under default which is not search engine friendly url.We can say it “Ugly”.It doesn’t look nice.

http://example.com/?p=N

Then how to choose your own Search Engine friendly Url ?

It is very simple to choose your own Search engine friendly url.Follow the steps to optimize Search Engine friendly Urls of your blog.

1. Go on Permalinks Setting under the setting tab on your admin panel.
2. Check the Radio Button of “Custom Structure” and fill the following Tags:

/%postname%.html

3. Click on Save.

View the following image carefully:

Urls of your blog posts will be optimized for Search Engines by following the previous steps which have mentioned in this post.

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Thesis theme is really magical theme for professional bloggers.It’s not tough to optimize design and layout of the different sections.You can add many sections in your thesis theme like latest stories in multiple lists,Google search box,recent posts with thumbnails and title etc.

Today I am discussing about the topic How to add Google Custom Search box in the header section of Thesis wordpress theme.Thesis theme is very easy to customize,you need to edit your custom function file to  add search box in header section.

Step #1: Open your custom_functions.php file and insert following hook but make sure to backup the copy of custom_functions.php in your computer.

function my_header_ad() { ?>
<div id="leaderboard_ad">
<style type="text/css">
@import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css);
</style>

  <div class="cse-branding-form">
    <form action="http://technogati.com/search" id="cse-search-box">
      <div>
         <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-5707807752184136:m3vtkk-9iia" />
        <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
        <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" />
        <input type="text" value="Search Technogati" onfocus="this.value = '';" name="q" size="53"  style="background:#fff url(http://www.younghabits.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/textfield-bg.gif) repeat-x 0 1px; border: 2px solid #47A6B4;  color: #333; font-weight:bold;padding:2px; font-size:12px;"/>
        <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" style="background: #188A9B; border: 1px outset #78A024; color: #ffffff; font-weight:bold;padding:2px; font-size:12px;" />
     <img src="http://www.technogati.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/powered.gif"> </div>
    </form>
  </div>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5707807752184136";
/* 468x15, created 4/10/09 */
google_ad_slot = "0259467523";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 15;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
  </div>
<?php }
add_action('thesis_hook_header', 'my_header_ad');

Edit and update your custom_functions.php

Step #2 : Now open your custom.css and edit following css code and then save it.

.custom #leaderboard_ad { float: right; position: absolute; width: 468px; height:50px;

 top: 30px;left: 500px;border:1px solid #eaeaea;padding:5px;

 -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:4px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright:4px;

 -moz-border-radius-topleft:4px; -moz-border-radius-topright:4px; 

-webkit-border-top-left-radius:4px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius:4px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:4px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:4px;}

Your Google search box is ready to make money for you.But you need to edit adsense code of your own adsense account to make money for you.

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• My 7 Days at WordPress Master 25 Program.

Day #10: Required WordPress Plugins For Your Blog

WordPress is one of the most popular and versatile blogging platforms and content management systems used on the web today.

I thought it might be insightful to give you a list of the required plugins.

Akismet

This is probably your most important plugin to use and most WordPress versions already have this plugin installed when you first download WordPress.  This is your basic spam fighter preventing spammers.

Google XML Sitemap

This plugin generates XML enabled sitemaps to help with indexing by search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo and more.

All in One SEO Pack

The reason why this plugin is so popular because its so simple to use in helping you with your SEO by making it easy to change titles,prevent duplicate content and other optimization options.

Contact Form

This is a contact form plugin, which is simple yet flexible. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

Database Backup

It allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

Related Posts

It gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

WP Super Cache

This plugin will help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site. Very useful plug-in for speeding your blog up.

WP-PageNavi

This plugin allows a better navigation by assigning pagination to your post. You can choose how many post to be displayed in one page and navigate directly to certain page.

Popular Posts

This plugin displays a list of your blog’s most-viewed posts. This plugin was created by the same people that made the Similar Posts plugin, so you can use the same options to customize

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Google is expanding Map usability in the world. Google Maps launched in Australia in February 2007 and till today Google map has become the part of daily use.

From within Google Maps you can now search for a local plumber or chemist; getdriving directions to a friend’s place; check out the location of a restaurant before making a booking with Street View; view terrain and satellite data for a given area; and even plan travel using public transport in some cities in Australia.

On 6^th July Google has introduces new feature on map. Google map has become the best resource of information for Aussies.Now it is very easy to find any rented house or any flat or even any bedroom in Australia  using Google Map.

According Google “You can check it out by entering a search like ‘real estate crows nest’ and clicking through to search real estate listings. A marker will appear on the map for every available listing, using our new search results feature, so you can get a really good idea of the distribution of the properties for sale or rent. This also means you can perform a search and see all the properties for sale close to, for example, a local school you’re interested in your kids attending. You can click on each marker and each small circle to get more detailed information about the property, including the listing agent’s website and contact details.”

Checkout the video for more information: