Loading of a web page is one of the known factors for search engine ranking these days. Along with much known techniques like using a cache plugin, serving optimized images, using a content delivery network is one highly recommended way to speed up your website. Google have already made it official that if your page loads faster, it will improve your search engine ranking. Here at ShoutMeLoud, we have already covered what is content delivery network and what are it’s uses. In the market, there are many paid and free CDN out there, and we have already covered MAXCDN. Today, I will be talking about one of the popular and free CDN network call Cloudflare. What is CloudFlare CDN & Why It’s free? CloudFlare CDN (Contend Delivery Network) caches the most popular content of your website on it’s strategically located servers across the globe. Every webpage access request is served by a server that is closest to the requesting machine. Apart from caching the content it … [Read more...] about How To Setup Free CloudFlare CDN For Your WordPress Blog
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Best Free Coming Soon WordPress Plugins With Essential Features
Are you planning to launch a new WordPress site and want to make most out of the traffic before the actual launch? When I wrote this year blogging resolutions for ShoutMeLoud, I told you about launching a forum for bloggers which is live now at Shoutersland and now I’m working on my next target of launching a professional blogging course at ShoutUniversity. ShoutUniversity is a paid membership site to learn professional-blogging, and now I’m working on preparing the course material for the same. Since I have already announced about the website and sending traffic there, I wanted to let people subscribe for Email updates before the launch. This way, I can expect the good amount of traffic at the time of launch. More over, the idea is to offer extra discounts to Shouters who pre-signup for my membership site; and this works as an extra incentive for the readers of ShoutMeLoud. Email subscription box powered by Aweber : Having interested users on Email is the best way for … [Read more...] about Best Free Coming Soon WordPress Plugins With Essential Features
Managed WordPress Hosting: A Beginner’s Guide
When it comes to hosting, we have various options regarding hosting packages and companies. Common hosting types are: But one thing which is common to all of these hosting types and companies, is that they will let you host any type of website. You can host: WordPress is memory-hogging software and it’s not uncommon to face downtime and site slowness at times. The main reason for this is that most of the hosting companies are not optimized for running WordPress. Either you can become a WordPress server optimization expert or hire someone to do it for you. But this sounds like a solution for 2013. In 2016, people are getting smarter & we all understand the importance of a fast-loading website. Moreover, downtime can mean a missed opportunity. But now, we have Managed WordPress Hosting. In the past several years, I have used numerous Managed WordPress Hosts including WPEngine, HostGator, Page.ly, and now, ShoutMeLoud is hosted on Kinsta. From my experiences (some bad & … [Read more...] about Managed WordPress Hosting: A Beginner’s Guide
Best WordPress Image Compression Plugins Compared: 2016
Thanks to the developer of the Smush.it plugin, we got very spoiled and became used to free image compression. In the last few months, everything we knew about free image compression has changed. Now, most of the WordPress plugins which are available online offer a small quota of free compressions & then you have to pay. So in this post, I thought it would be a good idea to look at all the existing image compression tools out there (free & paid). Those who have a small or medium sized WordPress blog can use multiple WordPress plugins to optimize all of their existing/future uploads for free. It might be time-consuming, but I know that when you are starting out, money is more important than time. For those who have a medium sized or a large blog, you may want to consider going for a paid option. This will help you load your blog faster & will keep your readers happy. Here’s the formula: Happy readers = Good blog = Better ranking = More money That’s a good … [Read more...] about Best WordPress Image Compression Plugins Compared: 2016
WordPress Video Tutorials for Beginners
WordPress is one of the best platforms for blogging, but people who’ve just started blogging, or are using BlogSpot, may find it hard to use WordPress. WordPress is bit technical, but if you can manage a Blogger blog, managing a WordPress blog will not be that much tougher. When I started with WordPress, I never got a WordPress guide or a complete WordPress video tutorial to help me get started with WordPress. But because I know how invaluable it would’ve been, I’m compiling some video tutorials for WordPress to help out anyone struggling to get started. Learn WordPress Watching Video Tutorials: If images speak a thousand words, videos speak… millions! For a beginning WordPress user, words like interface, dashboard, plugins, themes, etc. all sound intimidating. For a newbie, learning how to install a plugin on WordPress can seem overwhelming. And even before you start installing plugins, how do you decide which plugins to install? These videos will help you … [Read more...] about WordPress Video Tutorials for Beginners