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  • Fast Page Loading Themes Blogs

    I have noticed that a slower Page Load affects the Blog Traffic.

    If the page of your Blog site is slow, this you can find out by yourself or for details of your page loading time against standard Page Loading time you may check with Quantcast,Woorank ,Alexa or some good Web Analyzing Tools, one of the main reasons is that the Page has too many elements.

    One reason is that one uses large images and Videos.

    Blog Themes
    A WordPress Theme

    I am aware that Images and Videos make the posts attractive  and lends crdence to your posts, it is advisable to use medium size images and not to load too many Large images and Videos,.

    Ensure that your Home Page Posts do not contain more than 15 % Videos/images %.

    I shall be posting on this subject.

    In common man’s language the page has many, sometimes unnecessary  elements that make the page load slower.

    Many of us, including me, try to include as many Free Widgets as possible in our Home Page.

    It could be Traffic Monitors where it provides Visitor Information.Internet defense League, Indiblogger,Blog trophies,Clock and the like.

    I have used almost all of them under the mistaken impression it enhances my sites aesthetics and the information provided by these widgets are useful for the reader.

    Traffic to blog posts, I have noticed, is because of Content.

    What we write, and its usefulness to the reader drives traffic.

    And authenticity with sources for the information.

    Anything more than this distracts the reader.

    People browse, in general,for fast and relevant  information

    There are exceptions where people want to pass time.

    For this they have a lot of sites including social networking sites like Facebook,Myspace,Tumblr, thought he last one accommodates serious stuff as well.

    One has to choose a Theme which has minimum elements  technically yet loads faster.

    The Color schemes may have a role in this.

    So choose a Theme which has minimum elements and make sure it is attractive.

    Check if it loads fast .

    For an absolute idiot like me trial and error method is the best.

    Try and fix it.

    I used tried DePo masthead Theme of WordPress(Free Theme) for a long time.

    it was doing quite well.

    Suddenly I changed to some colorful Themes,on being told by mu son that my Theme was bland and unattractive.

    I have used more than Five themes.

    I was content that my blog was looking grand. it did look.

    But I have received comments from my readers that colors distract them from reading th content and some colors are irritating (the last point is subjective ,of course)

    Surprisingly most laudatory comments were received for the simple DePo masthead Theme, which you are reading now,stating that it is easy to read and the Page . especially the Home Page loads very fast.

    Most importantly I have seen an increase of about 25% in Home Page Views, though content wise there has been no shift in my Blog.

    Why do not some of you try similar simple themes?

    * I am not a Technical man and my suggestions need not be correct.

    If some one has more relevant information, they may post either in the comments column, send an email or if it is a detailed one send in their post for publication.

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  • Blog Hits 300, 000, Thank You.

    My first Blog was on 29 August 2009- ‘Time-Non-linear Theory.

    To day the,12th of September 2011, Total Hits 300,000 was reached.

    I do not know whether  this is  good .

    But I am happy that I have been able to write regularly and people have been reading , submitting comments and at times advise me the Subjects on which I should write.

    I would like to say ‘Thank You’ to all of them-Readers,Subscribers and those who comment.

    Over a period of two years  and Twelve days of my blogging experience, I have made many a mistake.

    A list.

    I was confused  between ‘Categories and’ Tags ‘( still am).

    The Result. I have ,116 Categories ,8,501 Tags. 

    I thought the more number of Tags I add-I had included Search Engines Names, like Google,Bing !-, I will have more Hits!

    I came to know that Search Engines are designed to ignore people like me (who add unnecessary tags).

    I was under the mistaken impression that Category is the Subject.

    I am in the process of correcting these mistakes.

    I have learnt that Key words are those words that come to me automatically as I write.

    I was advised by people in the SEO that I have to use more key words in the body of the blog, which is saying ‘include as many key words as possible’. 

    I refused because it affects my flow and then it is not me writing spontaneously.

    I read in Google Blog on Search Optimization, over-use of key Words is counter productive.

    As I mentioned  on reaching the One Lakh mark, I write ‘raw’,as people call it,with no touch ups.

    After all it is not literature , but sharing of one’s thoughts.

    I ensure that the facts are correct and I am true to my convictions.

    If wrong in my views in the light of Facts, I correct myself.

    I remember that i did not know what Visual editor was when it appeared in WordPress.

    I just started writing and I was able to write easily.

    Nor did I know how to apply a Link in the Blog.

    Readers can still see Links in my earlier Blogs in Text Format( I am not correcting them to remind me often of my stupidity.

    Uploading Images and Videos ,the same issues!

    Then I started reading WordPress Help and Tutorials.

    They are extremely useful for a man who can not understand much about Computer ,let alone Blogging.

    Here I would like Thank WordPress Help Desk,especially Karim  and Sheri , who systematically followed up my queries even if I forgot.


    Thank You,Karim and Sheri. 

    Google Help on Blogging  has proved to be highly useful.

    To evaluate my site I rely on Alexa.com.

    It is simple, devoid of jargon and I am able to understand where I need to pay attention.Not only Alexa gives me my Audience Profile, it guides me on Bounce rate,Key Word Search,Speed of the Site.

    It provides me insights into Traffic Rank,Reach View,Page Views,Page Views per User,Time on Site,Search and Links among other things.

    Quantcast and Woorank are two other sites of the same type.

    They are equally useful.

    Thanks to Google,WordPress,Alexa,Woorank  and Quantcast. 

    And Thanks to my children, whom I have been pestering with my blog information ad nauseum , for encouraging me.

    Related.

    For the best web hosting, WordPress is the gold standard. Because of the SEO that is already incorporated into the WordPress platform, the customer’s search engine ranking will be higher than it would be with many other hosting websites. In order to keep your search engine results at a high ranking level, it is important to frequently update your website with original content. Additionally, when you post a sale or special event on your website, it will be found by the search engines more rapidly and your ranking will increase, so that you are closer to the top of the search engine results. This in turn will generate more traffic to your site and broaden your prospective customer base.

    http://techattitude.com/blogging/the-magic-of-wordpress/