Become An SEO Superstar For Your Blog – DIY Tips And Tricks

Posted on April 7, 2017May 21, 2019 by Danish Ansari

SEO plugins are a great tool for optimizing your WordPress blog, but how much of a difference does that green light really make?

While Yoast SEO is the industry standard for a reason, it should be just one tool in your SEO arsenal – it shouldn’t be your whole SEO process.

The appeal of Yoast SEO is how easy, straightforward, and convenient it makes optimization: just check off these items on a list, and your post will rank higher!

SEO isn’t quite that simple – but it doesn’t have to be difficult, either.

Here’s how you can go beyond the green lights to optimize each post, in three simple steps.

First: Keyword Research For SEO

The first step to optimizing any blog post is deciding which keyword to target.

Whether you try to find keywords that match your existing topic ideas, or use your keyword research to come up with new ideas is up to you.

In either case, you want to find keywords that are:

High volume: You should try to choose keywords that are regularly searched for by a large number of people, in order to get the most traffic possible from your efforts.
Low competition: Knowing the most popular keyword won’t help you if everyone’s already trying to rank for it. Avoid trying to compete with big companies with big SEO budgets.
Relevant: Your keyword should be something that your target audience will search for, and it should be related to your blog. It won’t help you to rank high for keywords that your target audience isn’t interested in, or that have nothing to do with your niche.

The trick is in balancing high volume and low competition, while staying relevant.

Targeting individual “long tail keywords” with each post is usually a good strategy if you don’t have a huge SEO budget. A long tail keyword is a longer search phrase that’s searched less often, but has very low competition. If you target multiple long tail keywords with your blog, you’ll end up ranking high for a variety of keywords, instead of trying to rank your entire blog high for one big high competition keyword.

You can also choose to target more than one keyword per post. Just make sure they’re closely related to each other, and represent the same (or very similar) intent on the part of the searcher. You might use your related keywords for your subheadings, for instance. However, Yoast won’t let you enter more than one, so you’ll have to choose one primary keyword to target with Yoast.

In order to get the data on keywords, you’ll have to use a keyword research tool.

Here are a few you can try:

Google Keyword Planner

Google’s Keyword Planner, an Adwords tool, is the industry standard, despite some glaring flaws. Rand Fishkin of Moz points out:

“It’s the best source we’ve got, but many marketers may not realize that sadly, the numbers and queries may not always match up to what’s actually happening on Google’s search engine.”

That’s because the tool was built with advertisers in mind, not bloggers. Still, it’s a good tool to start your research with and get a ballpark idea of the search volume of each keyword.

AnswerThePublic.com

AnswerThePublic is a unique tool that gives you beautifully presented and incredibly helpful keyword suggestions. Just enter a word or phrase, and you’re presented with the most common questions searched for, plus tons of keywords ideas from A to Z.

Yoast Suggests

Yoast provides a free tool on their website that uses the Google Suggest functionality to suggest related keywords for you. Just type in a word, and it will come up with a list of keywords for you to consider.

Second: On-Page Optimization

On-page optimization includes everything you do on your website and blog post that will help search engines to understand what you’re talking about and match your post with the right searchers. This is where the Yoast SEO plugin really shines.

Following the checklist provided with the Yoast plugin and getting that green light for your carefully chosen keyword is a great start to ranking high in search results.

On-page optimization includes things like using your keywords in:

The post permalink
The post title
Subheadings
The body of the post (especially within the first 100 words or so)
Image names and alt tags

It also includes:

Lowering your bounce rate by writing interesting, engaging posts that are formatted to be scannable
Speeding up your website so it loads as quickly as possible
Including outbound links to high-quality websites
Writing longer, more in-depth blog posts
Encouraging readers to share your post on social media (and making it easy to do so)
Adding internal links to other relevant blog posts

Third: Off-Page Optimization

Off-page optimization refers to anything you do off your website to encourage Google to rank you higher, such as getting mentions and links on high-quality websites across the web and on social media.

This is something that the Yoast plugin can’t help you with, but it’s a huge factor in how Google determines search rankings.

Some strategies for off-page optimization are:

Guest posting on other websites
Media mentions (especially if they link back to your website)
Social media activity

Don’t be afraid to reach out to other bloggers and ask them to share your best posts with their readers, or to offer to do a guest post swap. Check out How To Achieve Incredible Results With Blogger Outreach for tips on conducting an effective outreach without being spammy.

Green Light Is Not To Stop

You may have all green lights on your blog posts, but don’t be fooled into thinking that’s enough to rank high in search results.

While the Yoast SEO plugin is a great tool, it’s just one part of the whole SEO process. Start going beyond the green light today by researching keywords for your next post, and don’t forget to promote your posts after they’re published!

WordPress SEO – Toolbox Of 81 Best Plugins

Posted on April 5, 2017March 4, 2025 by Danish Ansari

Search engine optimization is nor hard nor easy to be implemented on your website to improve your online presence but it’s not going to take care of itself, for sure. You can work on the quality of your content and hope for people to link to you. You may even get lucky and get found by top search engines. Why take the chance when you can optimize your WordPress sits for the search engines and get more exposure for less money. Making your website fully optimized and perfect is of course a tedious job, but then if you are on WordPress, there are WordPress SEO plugins to help you in much easier way to achieve what you wanted out of your site.

In order to help you choose the right SEO plugins for your situation, we have categorized them under the SEO factors that you need to pay attention to on your WordPress site. With that said, here are 80 best SEO plugins for WordPress:

Optimize Your Header

Your title tag is one of the most important SEO factors on your website. Your title tags need to be relevant and include your keyword phrases. These plugins let you optimize your title tags (and meta tags) without you having to touch your code.

All in One SEO Pack: one of the best WordPress SEO plugins around. It lets you optimize your titles easily. It’s much more than that though. It lets you optimize your meta tags and no-index your pages as well.
Platinum SEO Pack: very similar to the above plugin, but it does perform better on some hosts. It is compatible with Scribe SEO.
HeadSpace2: the ultimate META tag plugin for WordPress. It allows you to define tags, keywords, titles, descriptions, and add all kinds of other things to your pages.
SEO Title Tag – another powerful title tag plugin for WordPress that lets you add relevant keywords to each and every posts on your blog.
TGFI.net SEO: an all around decent plugin that helps you optimize your WordPress portal for search engines.
Scribe SEO: a quite unique premium SEO plugin that takes your copy-writing game to the next level. It’s a great tool to find areas to improve upon on your blog.

Manage Your URL Structure

Your website’s URL structure can be the difference between your site ranking well or getting completely lost in the SERPs. These plugins help you optimize your URL structure and manage your permalinks more effectively:

Redirection: an awesome plugin for redirecting links on your blog. You can even use it to mask certain links or change the behavior of them.
SEO Post Link: a very handy plugin that optimizes the length of your URLs, making your site more search engine friendly and easier to navigate.
SEO Slugs: removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to make your website more search engine friendly.
URL Shortener: adds the same URL shortener feature that you can find in WordPress.com blogs to your self-hosted WordPress website.
Permalink Validator: makes small fixes to your permalink structure and reduces the chances of your site being flagged for duplicate content.
Dean’s Permalinks Migration: if you have a huge website and want to change your permalink structure, you are going to need this plugin. Makes sure the effects on your rankings are minimal when you make the move.
Permalinks Moved Permanently: another handy permalink plugin for WordPress that 301 redirects your links when you change your permalink structure.

Improve Your Site’s Navigation

Having a decent navigation on your blog is not only user friendly but can be helpful to search engine bots too. These plugins let you give your visitors (including bots) more ways to go through your content:

WP-PageNavi: adds page numbers to your pages. That means your visitors can jump to a specific page on your blog without having to go through multiple steps.
Breadcrumb Navigation XT: adds a breadcrumb navigation to WordPress, showing the visitor’s path to their current location.
Yoast Breadcrumbs: another effective breadcrumb plugin for WordPress. Supports Thesis, Thematic, and Hybrid frameworks.
Multi-level Navigation Plugin: adds a dropdown/flyout/slider menu to your blog. Fun and SEO-friendly.

Optimize Your Internal Linking

Getting links from other websites to your blog is only one part of your equation. You should also take time to optimize your internal links. These plugins let you do just that.

SEO Smart Links: automatically creates internal links when you tell it what words to link to what URLs. You can also nofollow those links if you prefer.
Virtual Silo: helps create a silo link structure in your blog, giving your site a better chance of getting indexed faster on major search engines.
Popular Posts: shows your visitors what your most popular posts are. You can customize its look and feel too.
Random Posts: displays a random posts wherever you use this script. I personally use these types of plugins right after my posts.
Similar Posts: shows similar posts to the post the script shows up on. Great tool to help your visitors furthur explore your website.

Get Rid of Broken Links

If you want search engines to treat your website right, you do not want to have a broken link on your website. Unfortunately, broken links happen from time to time no matter how careful you are. These plugins help you address that issue:

Broken Link Checker: a handy plugin that will monitor your blog for broken links and lets you know if any are found.
GD Broken Report: adds report broken post option to each post and page. That way your visitors can let you know when you broken links in your articles.

Handle Duplicate Content

Nobody likes to get flagged for duplicate content. That’s why you need to take precautions and use these plugins to reduce the chance of it happening:

SEO No Duplicate: If you have duplicate content on your site, this plugin allows you to state which version of the post search engines should index while ignoring the others.
No Duplicate Content in Comments: gets rid of duplicate content in your comments section. You don’t want to take chances with your comments on your blog.
Greg’s High Performance SEO: a very powerful search engine optimization add-on that has a ton of features and let you get rid of duplicate content issues on your blog.

Manage NoFollow Links On Your Blog

The whole nof0llow issue is one of the most contentious issues in the SEO world. I prefer to add nofollow to all links that are going to websites I am not sure about. These plugins make such tasks much easier:

Nofollow Case by Case: lets you apply rel=”nofollow” to only the comments you don’t wish to give credit to.
SEO Blogroll: preserves your PageRank by adding the nofollow attribute to your blogroll links.
Nofollow Reciprocity: pretty self-explanatory. Adds nofollow to links going to sites that are doing the same to your links.
Nofollow Archives: adds nofollow to your archive links. Another way to preserve your link juice.
External Nofollow: adds nofollow to all the outgoing links on your website. While I do not recommend this, this may be something that works for your website (depends on your situation).

Image Optimization for Search Engines

Alt and title attributes for images are not as important as they used to be, but they still matter. You want your images to be as search engine friendly as possible. These plugins can help.

SEO Friendly Images: makes sure you have title and alt attributes set for all your images on your website.
Facelift Image Replacment (FLIR): FLIR is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. This plugin makes sure you deploy this script in a SEO-friendly fashion.
SEO Image Optimizer: It is a SEO friendly plugin. This plugin dynamically replaces title and alt tag of images. All changes will done without effecting the database. Plugin also resized and compressed the images to boost your site speed. So activate the plugin, give a pattern and you are ready to go.

Optimize Your Tags

Tagging your content properly is a must (not just for SEO). Simple Tags lets you do that more conveniently:

Simple Tags: a wonderful tag plugin that suggests tags and helps you find the best tags for your posts.

Improve Your Site Speed

In case you have not heard, Google will be taking into account your site’s speed when ranking your website in the near future. The below cache plugins can help you significantly improve the performance of your blog. Besides, they make it more convenient for your visitors to go through your posts:

WP Super Cache: one of the most popular cache plugins around. It reduces load on your server and improves the performance of your blog.
W3 Total Cache: the best cache plugin for WordPress hands down. Since using it on WP JEDI, we have managed to speed up the site significantly.
Hyper Cache: written for those of you who are not spending too much money on your web hosting service.
WPDB Cache Money: created for highly dynamic websites. It’s not a full scale cache solution, but if you are changing your content constantly, this could help.

Manage Your Comments

When your site becomes popular, you start getting tons of comments on it. At some point, you are going to need some help managing your comments. These 3 solutions can help:

CommentLuv: visits the site of the comment authors while they type their comment and links to their latest post. It can help increase the number of comments and links you get to your blog.
Intense Debate: a powerful comment management system that is tough on spam and gives your visitors the chance to leave comments using their Facebook or Twitter accounts.
Disqus: very similar to Intense Debate (though it has some advantages). Enables video comments and Facebook connect on your website (among other things).

Install Statistics / Rankings Plugins

While I don’t recommend being obsessed with your rankings and statistics, it’s always nice to keep up with them from time to time. These plugins should help:

Keyword Statistics: another all around powerful SEO plugin that not only can handle META tags, it can help you achieve the right keyword density in each post.
SEO Booster Pro: a powerful tracking tool that keeps track of your keywords’ rankings and shows you how people have found your website (our review)
SEO Watcher: checks your daily Google rankings directly inside of WordPress. It does not push the boundaries with Google either.
FD Word Statistics Plugin: gives you word and sentence count as well a quick analysis of your site’s level of readability.
Clicky Statistics: retrieves your Clicky statistics. Clicky is a powerful real time web statistics service.
Blog Metrics: a cool plugin that keeps you informed on how you are doing on your blog, giving you another way to track your progress.

Delve Deeper with Analytics Plugins

You can’t improve your website unless you are paying attention to what’s happening on it. That’s why every WordPress webmaster should have Google Analytics or a similar service installed. These plugins help you get the most out of your analytics software:

Google Analyticator: adds the JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code.
Ultimate Google Analytics: another Google Analytics installer for WordPress. Adds tracking code to outgoing links and e-mail links too.
Woopra Analytics Plugin: Woopra is one of the most powerful blog analytics solutions around. With this plugin, you can get the most out of it on your blog.
Search Meter: shows you what people have been searching for using your site’s search box.
StatPress: a powerful plugin that keeps track of your keywords, visitors, and everything in between. Gives you all kinds of information that you can take advantage of to optimize your blog.
WordPress.com Stats: gather information about your page-views, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and the exit points on your website.
Feedburner Feed Stats: shows you your feedburner stats right in your blog. Includes hits, subscribers, click-through, and more.
StatBadge: displays all kinds of stats about your blog in your sidebar. If you must share your stats, this plugin can help.

Robots.txt / META Robots Plugins

Your robots tag and Robots.txt file can help you point out pages that you do not want to be indexed by search engines. These plugins can help you manage those:

Robots Meta WordPress plugin: an all powerful robots plugin for WordPress that lets you manage your “index” and “follow” properties on your blog.
KB Robots.txt: lets you create and edit your own robots.txt from WordPress interface.
PC Robots.txt: another handy plugin that works for those of you who don’t want to mess with file permissions and things like that. Works with your site-map too.

Mange Your .htaccess

.htaccess is another one of those files that can make or break your website. I don’t recommend anyone messing with it unless you know what you are doing. Nevertheless, these plugins can help you manage your .htaccess:

Akismet htaccess writer: lets you block IPs on your website easily (in case you are dealing with lots of spam).
WP htaccess Control: a very useful plugin that makes it easy to add additional rules to your WordPress .htaccess file.

Create your Sitemap

Creating a site-map for your blog is another way to give the search engines a way to index your content more effectively. These plugins should help.

Sitemap Generator: a highly flexible XML sitemap plugin for WordPress that supports multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, and much more.
Google XML Sitemaps: the plugin I am using on the majority of my blogs. It creates a XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo index your content more effectively.
HTML Page Sitemap: creates an HTML sitemap for your blog. Very handy for large portals.
WP Shopping Cart XML Sitemap: designed to help e-commerce stores create a XML site-map for their pages.

Stop Spam

Spam is not only annoying, but it could affect your rankings if somehow something makes it through your protective walls. These plugins should help stop spammers dead in their tracks:

Akismet: it can reduce the number of spam comments that you get significantly. A must install for every WordPress webmaster.
Language-based Comment Spam Condom: reduces the number of spam comments that you’ll have to go through on a daily basis. Adds spam comments to trash.
Bad Behavior: works alongside existing spam prevention services to increase their effectiveness and efficiency.
WP Hashcash: another complementary plugin that keeps robots away from spamming your website.
Email Spam Protection: keeps e-mail harvesters away. This plugin makes it harder for spammers to get their hands on your e-mails.
WP-reCAPTCHA: a powerful CAPTCHA solution for your WordPress blog. Another way to make life difficult for spammers.

Ping Like a Pro

Pinging your site can help you increase your traffic, especially every-time you posts a new article. You want to make sure you don’t over-do it. These ping plugins should help:

cbnet Ping Optimizer: manages your pings in a way that prevents you from being flagged as a ping spammer. For instance, when you are editing your posts, this plugin makes sure you don’t send unnecessary pings.
No Self Pings: stops self-pings on your WordPress blog. Can make your life easier if you link to your own pages all the time.

Make Your Website More Social Media Friendly

Social networking and bookmarking sites are great venues to get links from and increase your traffic through. These plugins give your visitors the tools they need to bookmark and help promote your posts.

Sociable: gives you about 100 social sites to choose from and adds their links (the ones you choose) to your posts and pages. Give your visitors an easy way to bookmark your posts.
Sexy Bookmarks: a fancy way to add social buttons to your WordPress blog. Great for design sites.
Fixed Social Buttons: adds social buttons to your blog but with a twist. You can make these buttons stick at a certain place on your blog (e.g. very top)
WP Greet Box: adds a greeting box to your posts, giving you the chance to ask your visitors to join your Facebook page or subscribe to your feed (you define that specific action).
Digg Digg: one of the best social media plugins for WordPress. Adds the appropriate social button codes to your website without you having to touch your code at all.
Tweetmeme: needs no introduction. If you have Twitter friendly content on your website, this plugin is a no brainer. Topsy is a nice alternative.
Meebo Toolbar: brings a super social bar to your WordPress website. Your visitors can use it to share your posts with others or even chat with you (sign up for the service to download).

There you have it. The above plugins should help you optimize your site for the search engines and take it to the next level. Just don’t forget to keep pumping killer content into your blog/site.

Your suggestions are most welcome!

Thanks for reading this blog post and if you want to know What Will Happen if Google Disappears, go through this blog post.

8 Components Blocking Your Conversion Funnel

Posted on April 3, 2017March 4, 2025 by Danish Ansari

The main reason of one behind building any website is to make the most out of it and by most I meant carving out maximum of the business as possible. And that’s where conversion funnel comes into the picture but there are some components those need to be taken care of before building your conversion funnel.

You must be putting tons of efforts to maximize your website conversions, but are they where they should be?

It is really frustrating when you see that visitors are coming on your website but they are turning away due to badly implemented strategies for conversion funnel. In this post, we will talk about the 8 reasons that could be disrupting the process and turning your visitors away.

1. Ugly Design

The most common reason that turns your would-be customers away is the bad layout of your website. If you want to improve conversions, then you need to make the layout confusion free.

If you are having a cluttered design, then you are deliberately prompting your customers to leave. Even with a minimalist design you can put your visitors at ease and lower down your bounce rate.

Color schemes play an important role in conversion than you may think. So, you must choose the colors of your layout carefully based on the emotions you want your visitors to feel.

2. Lousy Visuals

Online marketing is completely done through visuals and content, so the quality and type of images you are using on your website matters a lot in making conversions.

According to studies, 92.6% people consider the visual factor while making decisions which means that you should be very selective with the images.

If you are using crappy imagery on your website and still thinking of the reasons you aren’t getting conversions, then you are just wasting your time.

3. Page Load Time

Nothing can be as bad as a slow loading website, as no one has the time to waste waiting for your site to load.

According to a Research, almost half of the users abandon your site if it doesn’t load within 3 seconds. So, a lack of speed is eating up your conversions.

Bigger images also slow down the website, so it is recommended to reduce the image file size to prevent the images from increasing the loading time.

4. Irksome Pop-ups

Most of us abandon the sites when we get hit with these annoying pop-ups. When 80% of the people who visit your site either dislike or hate pop-ups, then what’s the reason that you are using it on your website?

If you want your visitor to convert, then you can ditch this altogether and let someone check out your site as a guest for once. And, later show them the pop-up to collect their email address when they visit again.

5. Bad Copy

If your website is having a bad copy, then it could be one of the reasons your visitors are not making the action you want them to take. If you have a sales copy, then many of your visitors will run away instantly.

The copy of your website should be persuasive and clear to warm up the leads before they get ready to convert.

6. Confusing Navigation

If your website is so confusing that it cannot take visitors where they want to go, then you are forcing them to leave instead of staying.

Your website visitor should be able to easily navigate your site if you want to increase your conversion rate. It should always be simple and intuitive to decrease the bounce rate.

You should not also include too many navigation items, as this puts a paralyzing effect on them and they get confuse and leave.

7. Multiple CTAs per Page

Each landing page should be solely dedicated for one purpose and should have one goal for the visitors. So, your website should have one compelling call-to-action instead of having too many irrelevant ones.

A website with multiple call-to-actions will have half number of conversions when compared to the one with single CTA button. Because when you reduce the number of options, then it becomes easier to make a decision.

8. Greedy Forms

A greedy form is the one which has too many fields or ask for more information than required. There’s always a limit to how much information people would like to provide in a form. So, it is essential to use the right number of fields in your website forms.

According to studies, a form with too many fields reduces the conversion rate. So, to decrease the number of fields you can remove the ‘Retype email address’ field in your signup forms.

Wrapping Up

You should check your website every now and then for any loose points or hidden problem, there is no harm in doing that. It also ensures that you are not loosing your potential customer and traffic at the same time.

So start saving your websites conversion funnel by avoiding the above mentioned points while strategizing your conversion funnel.

Also don’t forget to read interesting story of Doctor Roy and SEO-Friendly Content To Boost Your Websites Online Presence.

Alongside with conversion funnel, Gamifying Your Website For Better User Interaction can also be a choice for many.

Get More Traffic Through Your Existing Articles – Content Hack

Posted on April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 by Danish Ansari

Sometimes it is difficult for webmasters, content writers and SEO’s to decide the topic of the new blog. Although there is so much to talk about online but the margin of what will appease your users is very thin. So, it becomes even more difficult to finalize the new topic for your upcoming blog. In this fast lane life, we make many mistakes and sometimes we have the answer in front of us still we complicate it for no reason and then curse the internet for the trouble. But the truth is, you can get more traffic through your existing articles. Sound’s interesting eh!

So, I suggest you check your existing content before planning to go to a new content war.

In this article, we’ll be seeing various ways through which we can get more traffic through your existing articles and some content hacks to modify your existing content.

How to Easily Update Website Content?

So we’ve convinced you to take a magnifying glass to your old content in search of great candidates for updates? Great! Now let’s take a look at the most important steps to consider during your updates:

Update your keyword research

The specific terms that people use to find content are always in flux. Revise your keyword research and implement the highest-traffic keywords that relate best to your content, without losing any search terms that your content is already ranking for.

Expand and elaborate

In an exceptionally rare address to the SEO community, Google employee Amit Singhal wrote a blog which shared some advice for marketers hoping not to get on the bad side of Google’s savage Panda. Some of the questions he recommended we ask included:

Does the page provide substantial value when compared to other pages in search results?
Does this article provide a complete or comprehensive description of the topic?
Are the articles short, unsubstantial, or otherwise lacking in helpful specifics?

In other words, take the topic you have in place and expand on it. Dig deeper into any statistics you have used and be sure to interpret and explain them (not just post them), so as to provide as much value as possible to the reader. Revise each piece with the vision of making it the most and complete article of its kind on the internet.

Update and improve cross-linking

If you aren’t linking to other pages in your content, both on your own site and outside it, then you’re doing your content a great disservice. By linking to other reputable pages, not only are you improving your content’s potential value in the eyes of Google, you’re also taking the first steps to building relationships with other websites in your industry, which are SEO gold.

If you use data from a website, place a hyperlink to that site in your content. If you quote a celebrity or topic expert, link to their personal blog or Twitter account. Then, go through your updated content and try to spot any opportunities for logical cross-linking to other pages on your website.

Repurpose

Maybe while going through your old content, you spot a blog that would make a great infographic? Maybe your research intensive blog would translate brilliantly into a slideshow format? Be on the lookout for content repurposing opportunities while checking through your old work. Sometimes attracting huge numbers of readers to a piece of content is as simple as meeting them on a different platform. When repurposing content, don’t forget to follow the steps above when revising the original piece.

I’m sure I’ve made it clear that, whether it’s to escape from the jaws of the Panda, or just to win more traffic through existing content, revising, refreshing and updating old content is certainly worth your time. Need someone to help you figure this all out, or to help you with an especially tricky Panda problem? You know who to call.

Isn’t that great and simple. But still if you don’t agree with me, maybe this could help Top 10 Ways To Find Topics For Your Blog Those Are In Trend

Top 10 Photography WordPress Themes Of 2017

Posted on March 28, 2017February 7, 2020 by Danish Ansari

As of today WordPress powers 28% of all websites globally and even several of the most popular news sites are hosted on WordPress. The main reason for WordPress popularity is its simple interface and limitless customization using themes, plugins or writing your own code. Even if you are not developer you can find plenty of great WordPress tutorials that will help you to build complex web solutions with ease. Personally I used WordPress to learn how to code and that was the best decision I have ever made. However, this time we won’t get into details about theme development but we will dig deeper into WordPress themes.

This time I would like to share the best WordPress photography themes as of today. Most of these themes are premium ones but they are worth every penny. Just as I’m sure you will all have tried free Photo editing software and have ended up happily paying for one of the Adobe creative cloud products once you realise how powerful it is and so the value it offers.

Photography, thanks to Facebook and Instagram, have become the most popular form of art. Thanks to these great photography sharing services people are getting into this art a lot more. And of course we can’t forget about iPhone and other smartphones with impressive cameras that allows to capture a lot of images on the fly.

While for most people it’s enough with Instagram for their photography needs but there are plenty of people like you who are looking into more serious solution – own photography blog or portfolio website and apparently you want to build it in on WordPress.

Many photographers that work for Localgrapher use one of these themes and for service like this it’s necessary that partners represent their work in a beautiful way.

These are one of the best WordPress photography themes but not the only ones since there are thousands of WordPress theme developers and millions of themes available. I haven’t seen any statistics on how many WordPress themes are available but you can be sure that you will be able to find one that suits your needs. Probably the hardest part will be to choose this one and only photography theme because there are so many great options available.

Ok, enough talking and let’s finally get to the theme showcase. I promise you’ll love them!

Uncode

Uncode is a truly impressive, visually vast and stunning, graphically polished and seamless, ambitious and bold, engaging and dynamic, deeply creative and very easily customizable, feature rich and functionally versatile, search engine optimized and fast loading responsive WordPress multiconcept, multipurpose website theme. Uncode is the result of a loving and devoted design and development process that is continuously being updated and expanded, in order to produce a truly pliable, flexible and veritably multipurpose theme that can effortlessly handle websites professional or personal, business or corporate, from blogs and portfolios to landing pages and more, owing to a spotlessly coded Bootstrap foundation with HTML5 resources and CSS3 animation.

Along with smoothly integrated plugins like the enhanced Visual Composer, the Revolution and Layer Sliders, WPML and WooCommerce out of the box, makes for a thoroughly coherent and cohesive end user experience that results in users more carefully and purposefully digesting what actually matters—your precious content. With such gorgeous layouts and amazing media handling features powered by a unique and augmented Media Library, Uncode is a perfect theme for showcasing beautiful, high resolution photography, and amateur photographers, professional or freelance photographers, travel journalists or photojournalists alike will invariably benefit a great deal from Uncode’s stylish, fascinating visual approach.

Jevelin

Jevelin is a visually stunning and extremely attractive, engaging and sophisticated, modern and responsive WordPress premium multipurpose website theme. Jevelin is a powerful set of tools for devising and developing awesome websites in a matter of minutes, without having to write a single line of code yourself. Jevelin has been designed to feature the most complete, flexible and reliable assortment of clever widgets, useful shortcodes, elegant layouts and innovative customizable animations available today, all articulated through an entirely visual website building experience free from hassle and deeply user-friendly.

With the streamlined page builder and the premium Slider Revolution, eloquent dissemination of your content is Jevelin’s true specialty. Photographers find in Jevelin a perfect partner for sharing their works with the world at large; supple HTML5 coding underpins a media-savvy theme that can handle high resolution photography and embedded video with utter ease and dexterity, while Jevelin’s minutely detailed customization process lets you fine-tune the display of every element within your website and every photography within your showcase, ensuring your precious content is always in exhibition under the most favorable spotlight, so your audience can appreciate your art. Parallax visual effects will make your photography come alive. Check out Jevelin today!

Kalium

Kalium is a beautiful and very expressive, creative and colorful, modern and tech-savvy, highly responsive WordPress creative multipurpose, portfolio and online shop website theme. Kalium is a cleverly conceived and very neatly structured website theme gifted with an ample set of tools and an ambitiously broad aim towards flawlessly presenting visual content to a massive online audience across a multitude of website archetypes, industries and applications, featuring a constantly expanding set of incredibly easy to import demo websites for dozens of specific purposes.

At the same time, Kalium incorporates deeply creative features by deploying the premium Visual Composer page builder to empower you to create the layouts and pages you dream of within instants, with a plethora of power plugins and shortcodes to enhance your user’s experience, including the attractive Revolution Slider and LayerSlider. Photographers love Kalium because it gives them the visual freedom they need to showcase their works in just the right style. With impressive portfolio features and configuration options, a lovely masonry style as well as a classic grid and multiple iterations on both, it really is no surprise photography studios and agencies are choosing Kalium more and more to show off their visual works to the world at large.

TheGem

TheGem is a beautiful and enticing, visually stylish and uncluttered, seamless and intuitive, highly responsive WordPress creative multipurpose website theme. TheGem has been developed to service a broad range of industries and fields of interest, with plentiful conceptual demo websites readymade for specific applications with custom-crafted layouts and creatively conceived styling for plugins, widgets, sidebars, headers, footers and much more.

TheGem is a fantastic tool for photographers, graphic designers and other creative freelancers or professionals that want an online foothold for their work to be disseminated from, making a positive impression on potential clients and employers by showcasing your visual works in the best possible light. With over twenty different portfolio and gallery layouts, as well as the premium Visual Composer page builder plugin for further layout customizing, creative freedom is the order of the day with TheGem, and dozens of specific, customizable portfolio and gallery settings will ensure your images and high resolution photography truly pop in a most memorable, favorable way. Completely integrated with the WooCommerce eCommerce plugin suite out of the box, TheGem is a competent salesman and can assist you in marketing prints of your works or your professional services right off your website. Try TheGem today!

Photocrati

Photocrati is a clean, modern and highly customizable WordPress theme with over 60 style variations out-of-the-box. There are literally endless ways to customize this theme to your needs. Theme functionality, color schemes, gallery style and element size can be tweaked via simple yet powerful theme options. This theme is used by more than 18,000 photographers worldwide and it means that this theme is well tested and will work under any circumstances. Photocrati theme is optimized for all device sizes such as smartphones and tablets. This theme comes with eCommerce integration that allows you to sell your prints, photography or other merchandises. This is the right theme if you are looking for simplicity, customizability, and image-centered design.

Tography

Tography is a stunning and visually stimulating and polished, graphically eloquent and expressive, incredibly resourceful and feature rich, cleverly coded, robust and reliable, technologically top of the line and astoundingly modern and immersive, highly customizable and extremely easy to use responsive WordPress multipurpose photography website theme. Tography is an attractive and handsome photography multipurpose theme that has been developed with the utmost care and attention to detail, in order to provide a complete, full set solution for webmasters of any skill level to quickly and effortlessly craft their own unique, distinct and visually cohesive photography websites where end users can intuitively navigate their way about gorgeous collections of high resolution images.

With a host of photography specific features and options that will make any photography website come alive in a matter of minutes, without ever having to write a single line of code, through a completely visual webpage construction process that is aided by extensive, ambitious and plentiful shortcodes to simplify and streamline your workload, so you can focus on what matters–adding more of your precious content for users to delight themselves with! Tography websites are unique, high impact and very memorable, and no theme will burn your photographies into your visitors’ minds like Tography.

Moon

Moon is WordPress theme that aims to enhance and improve your creative website. Blogs and portfolios can be optimized by a series of useful website tools. Customers can easily showcase their videos, audio files, and photos. Moon can increase your page’s flexibility, and free you from having to sit in an office for the entire day. You will be able to work, even while traveling. The theme is completely responsive, given that it can display your site on mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones. You will never lose the ability to upload edited or unedited photos, write posts for your blog, distribute your items, or manage your page layout.

This theme was constructed by an elite author, and it has earned the praise of those who have bought it. Customers will be rewarded with a series of free updates, and a support system that never fails to resolve troubling issues.
Moon allows you to showcase distinct textures and colors for your site’s main panel. This is will aid in the presentation of your beautiful content. Those who don’t mind a little reading can access the theme documentation file, which is quite informative. Gif snippets and video tutorials were included as well.

Total

Total is a full-featured and tech-savvy, creative and competent, robust and visually stunning, highly responsive WordPress multipurpose website theme. Total is a reliable platform for quickly and effectively putting together modern and functional websites that can satisfy the needs of webmasters within a multitude of industries, interests and subject matters. Total is built on advanced web development technologies including HTML5 multimedia-savvy coding and smooth and fluid CSS3 scripting, as well as the mobile-friendly design underpinning an absolute browser and device cross-compatibility which greatly expands your audience and allows you increase your traffic and revenue overnight, as does extensive SEO enhancement.

Total is a fantastic tool for photography websites, from professional freelance photographers to studios and any other kind of specialized website dedicated to high resolution imagery. Total is fit for showcasing your photography in multiple layouts and styles you can effortlessly fiddle with, through the incredibly potent Theme Customizer as well as the built in Visual Composer, Revolution Slider and Layer Slider, Total always shows your content in the best possible presentation. Packed with convenient social media sharing features, Total is ideal for promoting your website and your visual content to the world at large. Try Total today!

Nextop

Nextop is a stylish and bold, colorful and classy, professional and polished, readily responsive WordPress elegant multipurpose website theme. Nextop is a uniquely visually eloquent theme that has been designed specifically for the needs of webmasters dabbling in the creative and artistic fields. With a clean sense of aesthetics, Nextop empowers webmasters to handcraft gorgeous, powerful websites in a matter of minutes, regardless of previous coding or development experience, and with an impeccably professional, finished feel. Nextop is perfect for photography websites, photography magazines, photographic studios and all similar, related website projects.

With Nextop, handling sophisticated, cutting edge image galleries with a myriad immersive, amazing options is an easy, breezy task, and with the built in Visual Composer, Master Slider and Contact Form 7 premium plugins, Nextop can accomplish just about any visual styling or customization you can dream up. Engaging, professionally graphically designed templates have been packaged with Nextop, including amazing photography portfolio website templates that make your high resolution photography shine under the most favorable light. With Nextop’s proficient eCommerce capabilities powered by WooCommerce, marketing your works or services to a massive, undifferentiated online audience is now a walk in the park. Try Nextop today, and impress the globe!

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How To Minify CSS And JavaScript Of Your WordPress Website

Posted on March 27, 2017March 4, 2025 by Danish Ansari

Do you want to minify files on your WordPress site? Minifying your WordPress CSS and Javascript files can make them load faster and speed up your WordPress site. So, lets see how to minify css and javascript of your website.

Why Minify CSS And JavaScript?

SEO is an important aspect for any webmaster since good ranking in the search engine assures heavy traffic to your website thus gaining lot of profit at the end of the day. To attain better rankings, there are some important ranking factors of SEO to be taken care of and speed of your website is definitely one of them. To make sure that your site load faster whenever any user is visiting your website, you need to comply to all specified set of rules and regulation those are predefined by search engine giants such as Google or Bing.

Minifying CSS / JavaScript of your website is certainly one of the factors which helps improving your website overall speed. In this guide, we will show you how to minify CSS/Javascript files in WordPress to improve performance and speed.

What is Minify and When Do You Need it?

The term ‘Minify’ is used to describe a method which makes your website file size smaller. It achieves this goal by removing white spaces, lines, and unnecessary characters from the source code.

Usually it is recommended to be used only for files that are sent to user’s browsers. This includes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. You can minify PHP files too, but PHP is a server-side programming language and minifying it will not improve page load speed for your users.

The obvious advantage of minifying files is improved WordPress speed and performance. Compact files are faster to load and improve your site’s speed.

However, some experts believe that the performance improvement is very small for most websites and not worth the trouble. The minification only decreases few kilobytes of data on most WordPress sites. You can reduce more pageload time by simply optimizing images for web.

Here is an example of normal CSS code:

body {
margin:20px;
padding:20px;
color:#333333;
background:#f7f7f7;
}
h1 {
font-size:32px;
color#222222;
margin-bottom:10px;
}

After minifying the code it will look like this:

body{margin:20px;padding:20px;color:#333;background:#f7f7f7}h1{font-size:32px;margin-bottom:10px}

If you are trying to achieve 100/100 score on Google Pagespeed or GTMetrix tool, then minifying CSS and JavaScript will significantly improve your score.

Having said that let’s take a look at how to easily minify CSS/JavaScript on your WordPress site.

Minify CSS/Javascript in WordPress

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Better WordPress Minify plugin.

Upon activation, the plugin will add a new menu item labeled ‘BWP Minify’ to your WordPress admin bar. Clicking on it will take you to plugin’s settings page.

On the settings page, you need to check the first two options to automatically minify JavaScript and CSS files on your WordPress site.

You can now click on the Save Changes button to store your settings.

There are many other advanced options on this page. The default settings will work for most websites, but you can review and change these options on a case by case basis.

Next, you need to head over to your website. Right click anywhere and then select ‘View Page Source’ from browser menu.

You will now see the HTML source code generated by your WordPress site. If you look closely, you will notice that this plugin will load CSS/JavaScript files from plugin’s own folder instead of your WordPress themes and plugins.

These are the minified versions of your original CSS and JavaScript files. Better WordPress Minify plugin will keep them cached and serve the minified versions to browsers.

That’s all, we hope this article helped you learn how to minify your WordPress site. You may also want to see our ultimate guide on how to speed up WordPress for beginners.

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SEO-Friendly Content To Boost Your Websites Online Presence

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Danish Ansari

Being said and heard many times that content is the king of SEO, we can’t deny the fact that this statement holds. But you can’t just put any content you found online and giving that content little tweaks and that’s where SEO friendly content comes into picture. SEO-friendly content is mandatory if you want to boost your content online which will eventually bring traffic to your website and that’s the whole game.

Quality is always important when producing new content, but it’s the SEO that can boost your efforts of reaching a target audience.

SEO-friendly content doesn’t have to be difficult or time-consuming, provided that you understand how on-page SEO can work alongside your content.

Here’s a small how to create content that both your audience and search engines will enjoy.

Original Content Is The Demand

The key to success is originality of the content, the lesser it is plagiarized the more benefit it will give to you.

There’s no point in creating new content if it’s not authentic enough to stand out. Even if you come up with an idea from a different source, it’s still up to you to offer your unique perspective that will add value to the particular topic.

Copyscape is a plagiarism checker that can help you test your site’s content for its originality. Duplicate content, by and large, is not appreciated by search engines and it won’t help you rank higher in SERPs.

If you find it difficult to come up with new content ideas, here are 10 quick ways to find inspiration for your next topic.

Title Optimization Should Be Checked

Your headline is among the first things that users will come across when carrying out a search. This makes them important, and it’s useful to brainstorm as many variations as you can until you land on the best candidate.

Using your focus keyword in the headline can also be a good idea, but don’t try too hard to include it. Use power words and avoid redundancy to create a clear and appealing result. Aim for a headline of 55-60 characters, as this is what Google will display on the SERP.

Also, make sure that your URL is relevant to the title, rather than a sequence of numbers that only makes it more complicated.

Structure Your Content

It’s not just the content, but also its structure, that helps search engines decide on the results they’ll display first. Thus, a clear structure with headings and paragraphs that facilitate reading are preferred both from a user perspective and also from a search perspective.

Headings also help search engines get a quick overview of your content, which is why it can be beneficial to feature your focus keyword at least once.

Whether you follow the structure of H1 to H6, or simply add H2 and H3 headings at relevant points throughout the text, consistent structure in your pieces of content is appreciated.

Stuff Keywords

Keywords are less often used nowadays as the first signal to indicate what your post is about, but they are still helpful to offer an overview of the topic you’re focusing on.

Keyword research is still useful when trying to decide on the most interesting topics for your audience. Keywords can still be part of your content, provided that they are added in context and at the right balance. There’s no need to sacrifice the quality of your content to include more keywords, as keyword stuffing can lead to the opposite of the result you want.

Readability Is The Aim

The readability of your content has to do with the simplicity of its language, the lack of grammatical or syntactical errors, and the sentence structure.

Online readability tests allow you to learn the “reading age” someone needs to understand your content, and they depend on:

sentence length
number of syllables per words
frequency of passive voice

Despite the different readability formulas, you can still gain valuable insights on your writing that become even more useful if you want to target a wide audience.

Is your content suitable for the audience you want to target?

Include Links (External And Internal)

Internal links can help you prove your authority in a particular field by creating a logical sequence from one post to the other. This may lead to a series of posts that offer additional value, making it easier for search engines to understand your key topics.

External, or outbound, links indicate that you are well aware of the topics you’re writing about, to the extent that you’re ready to use further sources to support your content. It’s more useful to link to reputable sources, as these links have bigger credibility.

Beware, excessive linking, either internal or external can lead to the exact opposite results. Make sure that every link serves its own purpose in your content.

Optimize All Your Images

The optimization of your images provides an additional opportunity to show up in search results, this time in image search.

As visual content becomes more and more prominent, it cannot be left out of SEO. Luckily it’s not time-consuming to optimize your images. All you have to do is keep in mind a few simple tips:

Always keep the file name relevant
Be careful with the file sizes, as they affect the page speed
Don’t forget to add alt text, or else a title for your image
Think like a user when naming your images
Focus on quality images and avoid generic ones

User Is Primary

Every piece of content should have the user in mind. This also applies to SEO. You can’t create your next piece of content, or carry out keyword research, without knowing your audience.

What does your audience expect from you?

How can you enhance the user experience?

Does your site sabotage your content?

All the questions above can be answered by paying closer attention to your site, your content, and your target audience. Google rewards pages that focus on user experience, so never underestimate the power of the user.

Some Tips To Finish Up

If you want to create SEO-friendly content, here’s what you need to remember:

Focus on user intent
Be authentic
Come up with the best headlines for your content
Pay attention to the content’s structure
Use keywords wisely
Edit, proofread and aim for readability
Use both internal and external links to add further value
Optimize all your images to gain new opportunities for search ranking.

SEO-Friendly Content is the need of the hour and it should be implemented well to make sure that you are up to the mark of whatever you are doing and you are not lacking behind in any aspect.

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Gamify Your Website For Better User Interaction

Posted on March 22, 2017March 4, 2025 by Danish Ansari

User interaction and retention is one tough job webmasters, site owners, bloggers and marketers has to face. To make all things work properly, you have to think out of the box and to adopt or invent new ways of gathering traffic to your website and then make them stick to your website for any reason. In order to make all these things happen, gamifying your website is also a good option. While not new in the market, gamifying any website is still one the best tricks to capture and hold your website traffic. So, are you in to gamify your website?

According to a report released by the Entertainment Software Association in 2015, 42% of people living in the U.S. play video games at least three hours every week. Michael D. Gallagher, the president and CEO of ESA, added that:

Video games are ingrained in our culture. Driven by some of the most innovative minds in the tech sector, our industry’s unprecedented leaps in software and hardware engages and inspires our diverse global audience.

OK, so it’s important to take note of that statistic since it means that nearly half of all people are already well-acquainted with gameplay. If you drill down even further into the ESA’s research, you’ll find more information on who exactly these game players are. For example, the average gamer’s age is 35 and there’s a fairly even split between the sexes (56% male, 44% female).

How To Gamify Your Website?

Gamification can be fun, educational, drive loyalty, boost brand recognition, and do a whole lot more for a WordPress website. It’s just important not to overdo it. Gamification needs to be memorable for the value it adds, and not just because you created a diversion someone can use for a couple minutes before getting back to work.

With that said, let’s talk about some practical ways you can add gamification features to your own website.

1. Communities

One of the benefits in playing videos games is the opportunity to meet like-minded individuals as they explore the same landscape and universe as you. Some games even allow you to join forces and form your own virtual team, despite never having met one another in real life. If your website has a large community that would benefit from collaboration and communication, forming a membership service and community would be a great way to encourage that same team-like atmosphere.

If you’re interested in creating a community, check out BuddyPress, a free social networking plugin for WordPress.

2. Page Loading Progress Bars

With the right animation, you can keep visitors engaged as they wait for a page to load. Those same type of transitional animations work really well for gamification. Obviously, no one wants to sit and wait for a game (or website) to buffer, but with a short and entertaining enough animation, you may increase the likelihood that visitors stick around longer.

3. Points-Based Features

Further building on that idea of creating a community, if you want to take it an extra step and reward members with points, you can use a plugin like myCRED to do so. For the most part, this plugin focuses on helping users devise points systems and manage visitors’ points accumulation on their WordPress website. Purchase rewards, badges, games, and other related features are available through this tool as well.

4. Tooltips

Most video games will usually give you a quick overview of how to use the controller in order to navigate your way through the game. Think of tooltips in the same way. While your goal should always be to create an intuitive pathway from entry to conversion, sometimes it’s helpful to add quick tips to keep your visitors moving along.

5. Membership Rewards

Now, if what you’re looking for is a wholly comprehensive membership rewards gamification tool, then Captain Up is what you’ll want. This tool comes chock-full of gamification features like badges, levels, trophies, points, currencies, and rewards. You can also use this to manage communication with your community and to promote and reward visitors for engaging with your brand on social media.

6. Quizzes

Want to follow in the footsteps of websites like BuzzFeed and provide visitors with additional entertainment or educational value? Create quizzes, polls, and surveys to keep them engaged and give you an opportunity to gain additional insights about what more they’d like to see from you. Check out Opinion Stage’s 4-in-1 plugin solution for this.

Top Reasons To Use CDN For Your Website

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Danish Ansari

Making your site load faster is one top most important aspect of SEO and internet. According to a study, if your website doesn’t open in 3 seconds, majority of your users leave your website without even taking a look and that’s harsh and tough at the same time for a person who has spent a lot of time and care in building his/her website and than users going away without a glimpse of the website. And to sort this one out, we are going to talk about top reasons to use CDN for your website.

But before proceeding with the reasons, lets know what CDN actually is and how it works?

What is CDN?

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are the transparent backbone of the Internet in charge of content delivery. Whether we know it or not, every one of us interacts with CDNs on a daily basis; when reading articles on news sites, shopping online, watching YouTube videos or perusing social media feeds.

No matter what you do, or what type of content you consume, chances are that you’ll find CDNs behind every character of text, every image pixel and every movie frame that gets delivered to your PC and mobile browser.

CDN’s are designed to remove Latency, it’s the annoying delay that occurs from the moment you request to load a web page to the moment its content actually appears onscreen.

How CDN works?

To minimize the distance between the visitors and your website’s server, a CDN stores a cached version of its content in multiple geographical locations (a.k.a., points of presence, or PoPs). Each PoP contains a number of caching servers responsible for content delivery to visitors within its proximity.

In essence, CDN puts your content in many places at once, providing superior coverage to your users. For example, when someone in London accesses your US-hosted website, it is done through a local UK PoP. This is much quicker than having the visitor’s requests, and your responses, travel the full width of the Atlantic and back.

This is how a CDN works in a nutshell. Of course, as we thought we needed an entire guide to explain the inner workings of content delivery networks, the rabbit hole goes deeper.

Since, now we have a slightest idea of what CDN is and how it works, lets take a look at,

Top Reasons To Use CDN For Your Website

Performance

What does performance mean? It means connected content delivered at speed. It’s the difference between a click giving you immediate access to new content, and a click then a 7 second wait while a page loads or a video buffers.

How does it work? When requested content is cached (pre-saved) by a CDN’s servers, end users will get that content by connecting to the nearest CDN server rather than waiting for their request to go directly to the origin. This results in a significant performance improvement for the end user. For example, let’s say that Fashion House X (FHX) from Milan, Italy, releases its new line-up for online orders. Fashion lovers in New York, Paris, Rio De Janeiro, and Tokyo all go online to make their orders. If FHX isn’t using a cloud content management system, the request from each end user must go all the way to Milan and back. However, if FHX uses a CDN and has pre-warmed its content across the CDN, each user can access the new content from servers directly in their city, saving their data hundreds or thousands of miles in round-trip time.

What if the content isn’t already in cache? When a CDN server does not have the content in its cache, it is able to traverse the length and breadth of the Internet using its programmed knowledge of the inter-connections between itself and its companion CDN servers. This helps it overcome the challenges of peering between multiple ISPs, lost packets due to network outages, and the time lost in DNS resolution. Advanced CDNs also have other specific technologies to deal with dynamic, or uncacheable, content.

All of this means that via a CDN, content providers can deliver fast, quality web experiences to all their end users; no matter what location, browser, device, or network they’re connecting from. Webpages render faster, video buffering time is reduced, users stay more engaged, and content providers get more business!

Availability

Availability means that content remains accessible to end users under high-stress situations such as excessive user traffic, intermittent spikes, and potential server outages.

When traffic loads peak at millions of requests per second, even the most powerful origin servers would be put to the test. Without a CDN, all this traffic has to be absorbed by a content provider’s origin infrastructure. This can cause the origin to fail, resulting in a terrible end user experience and lost business. That’s when CDNs, with their massively distributed server infrastructure, are of immense value. Advanced CDNs, with their highly distributed architecture and massive server platforms can absorb tens of TBps of traffic and make it possible for content providers to stay available to larger user bases than otherwise possible.

As an example, let’s return to Fashion House X (FHX) in Milan. FHX’s brand is beloved by millions of fashion lovers, and their new line-up generates a lot of excitement. At the moment of launch, fashion lovers from all over the world go online to FHX’s website at the same moment. If FHX is not using a CDN, all of those users would hit their origin server at the same time, causing it to fail. However, if FHX is using a CDN, all of that traffic will be served across the CDN’s hundreds of thousands of servers, keeping FHX’s origin from failing and delivering a quality experience to fashion lovers across the globe.

Security

As the volume of high-value data and transactions on the Internet continues to grow, so do the forces of attackers looking to exploit it – and these forces are costing organizations big money. According to a report by the Ponemon Institute of Cyber Crime, in 2015 businesses around the world suffered average losses of $7.7 million due to cybercrime. Along with crimes committed by malicious insiders, DDoS and web-based attacks were found to be the costliest.

According to a Report, the number of both DDoS attacks and web-based exploits (SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and local or remote file-inclusion attacks) are becoming more common as well. These attacks are also increasingly launched in conjunction using a DDoS to divert attention while causing more serious damage with other exploits. In both types of attacks, it is often difficult to distinguish bad traffic from legitimate traffic, and strategies continue to evolve rapidly over time, requiring significant dedicated security resources in order to stay up to date on mitigation strategies.

Given the increasing volatility of the Internet threat landscape, helping to secure websites is a critical CDN requirement. Today’s most advanced CDNs have made information security a core competency, providing unique cloud-based solutions. CDNs should protect content providers and users by mitigating against a wide array of attacks without malicious entities ever compromising delivery and availability.

Intelligence

As carriers of nearly half of the world’s Internet traffic, CDN providers generate vast amounts of data about end user connectivity, device types, and browsing experiences across the globe. They can expose this data to their customers, thus giving them critical, actionable insights, and intelligence into their user base.Tthis includes Real-User Monitoring and Media Analytics to measure end-user engagement with web content, and Cloud Security Intelligence to keep track of online threats.

Wrapping Up

CDN’s certainly is the solution to high pings and latency’s people are facing while accessing the web and putting CDN in use will make your site load faster and give your user a mesmerizing web experience.Now, choosing a better CDN system is the real challenge because there are a lot of companies out in the market promising something else and reality is quite different. So, we’ll recommend you to choose wisely out of all the available options.

Here’s a list of all free CDN’s which promises up to the mark service quality.

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Posted on March 18, 2017 by Danish Ansari

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Why Minify CSS And JavaScript?

What is Minify and When Do You Need it?

Minify CSS/Javascript in WordPress

Original Content Is The Demand

Title Optimization Should Be Checked

Structure Your Content

Stuff Keywords

Readability Is The Aim

Include Links (External And Internal)

Optimize All Your Images

User Is Primary

Some Tips To Finish Up

How To Gamify Your Website?

1. Communities

2. Page Loading Progress Bars

3. Points-Based Features

4. Tooltips

5. Membership Rewards

6. Quizzes

What is CDN?

How CDN works?