This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who is a SEO consultant.

It seems that everyone these days has a WordPress blog. It’s not at all surprising. After all, these blog sites are easy to create and maintain. Beyond that, they allow individuals to easily run their own site, and provide a great marketing mechanism for any business that’s smart enough to branch into social networking.

Despite how attractive and simplified a WordPress site is, however, you still have plenty of options for improving your blog. One of the major areas that advanced webmasters can fine tune is the loading speed of the site.

Why Site Speed Is Important?

The load time of your site may be a more important factor in the success of your website than you realize. It should be obvious that your visitors will be far happier with fast load times than slow ones. Beyond that, however, your load speed may actually have a direct affect on your site’s search engine optimization.

According to the official Google blog entry created on April 9th, 2010, Google will be using a site’s load speed as one of the factors in its search algorithm. In plain talk, that means that a faster loading site will rank better. While Google is the only major search engine that has announced that load speed will be a factor as of June, 2010, the other major search engines frequently mimic additions to Google’s search rankings.

Here Are Some Simple Tips For Speeding Up Your WordPress Blog :

Choosing A Reliable Hosting Plan

Sticking to a reliable hosting provider is crucial. This is why I usually recommend choosing a well-known hosting provider: it may cost more but it will save your time and money in the long run!

You may also consider going with some wicked hosting service like hosted exchange for example which usually means more reliable plan as well as other cool benefits as well.

Cleaning Your Code

Speeding up your WordPress blog can start with running through your code and cleaning it up in a few different ways. While the standard WordPress templates are fairly clean, they are also designed for “the average blogger.”

To make these templates easier to upload and simple enough for beginning webmasters to use, the code of WordPress blogs includes a long list of php references that could easily be hard coded or deleted entirely. Eliminating these php references will speed up how quickly your blog loads, and can also add to the stability of your site.

Clearing Out Your Plugins

Plugins and widgets can add some great functionality to your site, but they aren’t going to help you achieve the “fastest possible load time.” You certainly shouldn’t eliminate useful features from your site, but removing any unused plugins will make a significant difference in load time.

Add A Cache Plugin

While clearing out plugins that you don’t use is a great idea, one specific type of plugin should be added: a caching plugin. Cache plugins make large strides toward speeding up your WordPress blog by storing each of your posts directly on the server.

Normally, WordPress uses a database query to load your post, and this can result in a slow site load time if you have a lot of traffic. Beyond these tips for eliminating unnecessary database delays and clearing up messy code, you will also want to be sure that any elements, such as images, that you include are individually optimized.

I hope you would have liked reading this article and you attain the best possible loading speed for your wordpress blog. Do comment below if you have more tips or ways to speed up wordpress blog.

[If you liked reading this then you must consider reading : "How To Speed Up WordPress Blog In 3 Simple Steps".]

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Hi! I am Ann Smarty, an SEO consultant and search blogger. If you like (or plan to start) guest blogging, check out Ann's community of guest bloggers to find plenty of people who are really interested in guest posts (and you won't be rejected!). You can Follow Ann On Twitter @seosmarty

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This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who is a SEO consultant.

For most people blog traffic and search analytics is done with help of Google Analytics which is quite understandable because it is free and really advanced.

You can get really in-depth traffic analysis with the tool or, if you don’t want to go onto any geeky details, you can just see your traffic sources and keyword referrals.

This post will show you three simple Google Analytics hacks you will love! To try two of the following tips, make sure you have Greasemonkey installed.

1. Export Your Report to Google Docs and Share them easily! (Greasemonkey)

This Greasemonkey script exports up to 10000 rows of Google Analytics data to Google Docs and thus allows a handy option to save, organize and share your reports!

2. See Your Unusual Traffic (Greasemonkey)

Here a cool Greasemonkey script that allows you to see referrals that have sent you unusual traffic:

• Referring sites with higher 50% traffic over the last 3 days;
• Referring sites appearing  in the last 3 days;
• Referring sites with lower 50% traffic over the last 3 days:

3. Check Your Traffic for the Current day with One Click of a Mouse (Bookmarklet)

Are you obsessed with your search analytics which makes you check your current traffic again and again? If yes, you will love the tip!

Now, to see your traffic and referrals for the current day you need to make at least three clicks but with this handy bookmarklet generator you will need only one!

Just provide your Google Analytics ID and drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar:

I hope you will have find these firefox hacks for Google Analytics pretty interesting. Do give it a try and let me know your opinion about it.

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The first thing to keep in mind when you consider guest posting is that you must guest blog. This is the best way to find new audience and promote your blog.

The second important thing to remember is that a few (or many) of your guest post pitches will fail. You should learn to accept rejection: this is natural, everyone fails sometimes, even the best among us.

What you can do however is to get the rejection rate to minimum, and here’s how with 6 simple steps:

Step 1: Do your homework

Learn the blog style, its audience and most active readers. What types of posts seem to do the best on Twitter? Which ones get most comments? Which ones get most links / trackbacks? Here is a quick easy tool to help you see which pages of the blog get tweeted a lot for example:

Topsy is a Twitter tracking tool that lists “More popular” page from any domain. Just do a quick search by the blog domain and see which pages were the most popular there:

Same search is possible both on Digg and Delicious – so you quickly see what gets Tweeted, Dugg and bookmarked most of all and realize what appeals to the blog audience.

Step 2: Work on post ideas

The fact that you have analyzed the blog style and audience doesn’t mean you need to write exactly what you see get popular with the blog readers. On the contrary, the actual purpose of guest posting is offering something fresh and unique.

So armed with that knowledge, think of something new that is likely to appeal to the blog community.

Step 3: Write a good pitch

Take some time to find the blogger’s name. Starting your message with the blogger’s name, you have a good chance grabbing his attention from the very first second.

Here’s a sample of a pitch that has worked to me (if you have the actual post or a draft, attach it as well):

[Blogger's name],

[A quick introduction of your self]

I’d like to contribute to [blog name]

The post idea I’d like to cover: [describe your idea here. Be brief but mention why you think it will do well on that specific blog]

Here are a few samples of my writing:

[Provide a couple links to your previous posts on the topic]

Please let me know what you think.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

Step 4: Write the post

Once you get a reply from the blogger, write the actual post. Write it as if you are going to write the best piece in your life. Remember, both you and the blogger will benefit if your post does well, so by writing a really good post you will increase your chance of getting approved and at the same time you will get more exposure once the post is live.

Check out these helpful tips by Edward Khoo to make sure your post is really good. Try to be yourself but look for the best in your own style and expertise.

Step 5: Flatter the blogger

Quite a long time ago I wrote quite a controversial piece on the art of flattering (please read before arriving at any conclusions!). Flattery can take various forms: what I mean here is mentioning the old post from the blog (or other blogs from the same owner). The blogger is sure to notice and appreciate them. So he is ore likely to accept your post.

Step 6: Be patient

Popular bloggers are very busy. Don’t expect the answer within one or two days and don’t get alarmed if you don’t hear back after 3 days of waiting. Just wait and you will be awarded.

I hope you would have find this article interesting. If you are going to guest post on any blog, do implement these methods. I am sure, if that article is wonderful then the blog owner will surely publish it on his blog. Let me know your opinions about this article. And Yes, Happy guest blogging!

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