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Customize Through Inspect Element – For DIY Users

Posted on April 29, 2017March 4, 2025 by Danish Ansari

Did you ever gave a thought to temporarily customize any webpage to check how it will look like with specific set of colors, fonts, and styling that you always wanted to see on your webpage. It’s possible with a tool that already exists in your browser called Inspect Element and you can customize through inspect element easily. This is a dream come true for all DIY(Do-It-Yourself) users when they find out about it. In this article, we will show you the basics of inspect element and how to use it with your WordPress site.

Inspect Element, Heard it for the first time?

Modern web browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox has built-in tools which allow web developers to debug errors. These tools show the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code for a page and how the browser executes the code.

Using Inspect Element tool, you can edit HTML, CSS, or JavaSCript code for any webpage and see your changes live (only on your computer).

For a DIY website owner, these tools can help you preview how a site design would look without actually making the changes for everyone.

For writers, these tools are awesome because you can easily change personal identifying information when taking your screenshots eliminating the need to blur out items altogether.

For support agents, it’s a great way to identify the error that could be causing your galleries to not load or your sliders to not work properly.

We’re just scratching the surface of use-cases. Inspect element is really powerful.

In this article, we will be focusing on Inspect Element in Google Chrome because that’s our browser of choice. Firefox has its own developer tools which can also be invoked by selecting inspect element from browser menu.

Ready? Let’s get started.

How To Launch Inspect Element?

You can launch inspect element tool by pressing CTRL + Shift + I keys on your keyboard. Alternately you can click anywhere on a web page and select inspect element from browser menu.

Your browser window will split into two, and the lower window will show the web page’s source code.

The developer tool window is further divided into two windows. On your left, you will see the HTML code for the page. On the right-hand pane, you will see the CSS rules.

As you move your mouse over the HTML source you will see the affected area highlighted on the web page. You will also notice CSS rules change to show the CSS for the element you are viewing.

You can also take the mouse pointer to an element on the web page, right click and select inspect element. The element you pointed at will be highlighted in the source code.

How To Edit Code In Inspect Element Window?

Both the HTML and CSS in the inspect element window are editable. You can double click anywhere in the HTML source code and edit the code as you like.

You can also double click and edit any attributes and styles in the CSS pane. To add a custom style rule click on the + icon at the top of CSS pane.

As you make changes to the CSS or HTML those changes will be reflected in the browser instantly.

Note, that any changes you make here are not saved anywhere. Inspect element is a debugging tool, and it does not write your changes back to the files on your server. This means that if you refresh the page, all your changes will be gone.

To actually make the changes, you will have to edit your WordPress theme’s stylesheet or relevant template to add the changes you want to save.

Before you start editing your existing WordPress theme using Inspect Element tool, make sure you that you save all your changes by creating a child theme.

Debug Errors On Your Website

Inspect element has an area called Console which shows all the errors that exist on your website. When trying to debug an error or requesting support from plugin authors, it’s always helpful to look here to see what the errors are.

We hope this article helped you learn the basics of inspect element and how to use it with your WordPress site.

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Factors For Mobile SEO Ranking 2017

Posted on April 19, 2017September 11, 2019 by Danish Ansari

After so many years of technological advancement and growth, mobile devices are the biggest source to direct major part of traffic to your website, and their influence is only going to expand further and further. That’s exactly the reason for Google’s switch to mobile-first: to open new possibilities in the art of website optimization. To seize them, we need to answer one question first: How does one improve website rankings with mobile SEO?

There are a number of factors which make your mobile website rank higher (or lower) in Google, and they can be safely divided into three major groups: technical, user experience and content. There’s an additional group for a few other factors that can’t be included into the previous three but still, deserve mention. To help you get better acquainted with them, we have composed this list below that describes the most important mobile ranking factors.

Technical Factors

Site Speed – GOOD

Your site will be benefited by this.

Everyone likes fast-loading websites. They are a treat regardless of what device you use to surf the net. However, users tend to show less patience than usual with handheld platforms.

According to a Mobile Ranking Factors study by Searchmetrics, the average loading time in the mobile top 10 is 1.10 seconds, and being only a tad slower (1.17 seconds on average) sends you further down in the top 30. The line separating successful sites from the poorly optimized ones is shockingly thin, wouldn’t you agree? By the way, if the site doesn’t load in 3 seconds, mobile users just close the browser’s tab.

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) – GOOD

Your site will be benefited by this.

AMP’s secret is being light on their HTML and CSS code. It makes pages easily pre-renderable and cacheable for browsers, and as a result, they load 30 times faster than regular pages – basically, almost as soon as you click on the link. Thanks to this neat ability, AMPs have a positive effect not only on rankings but on click-through rates as well. No wonder they show up in almost every Google search result: after all, they offer the best of the best user experience.

Flash – BAD

This will affect your website in a bad manner.

Perhaps this issue will be addressed later in the future, but for now, most mobile browsers don’t support Flash content and thus can’t display it. Which is why it’s best to have none on your mobile site. Otherwise, not only can users not see what you wanted to show them, but you also risk a penalty from Google for hidden content.

Technical Errors – BAD

This will affect your website in a bad manner.

This goes without saying. A webmaster who allows errors and bugs on their site has no respect for themselves, their work or their users. This isn’t even a matter of ranking high in search results… though of course, that’s also a factor to consider.

If your site has issues that need fixing, users are most likely to run into errors such as faulty redirects leading to the site’s desktop version and non-existing pages (good old 404 errors). Small problems can turn exploring your website into one big problem, so don’t take too long dealing with them. And big problems that are already there demand even swifter action.

User Experience Factors

Unordered Lists – GOOD

Your site will be benefited by this.

Who would’ve thought that something as ordinary and common as a list of whatever things could affect your site in a positive way?

Google seems to reward mobile sites for having unordered lists even more generously than desktop sites. This is not surprising because a neatly organized list is easy to scan. However, rankings begin to fall when the lists have too many elements in them. Because a small screen can display only so much at a time, the golden number of bullets for mobile devices is 9.

Images – GOOD

Your site will be benefited by this.

A picture is worth a thousand words. This old saying holds water in web design, as well.

Apart from being aesthetically pleasing to the human eye, images are also easier to perceive and leave a stronger impression on the viewer than raw text. It’s not surprising at all that visual media are an integral part of creating an enjoyable site. However, one must not forget how abundant content affects the site’s loading speed. Optimize your images to reduce their dimensions and file size and avoid using too many. On average, a single mobile page has 4images.

Intrusive Interstitials – BAD

This will affect your website in a bad manner.

Pop-ups are the most hated enemy of all Internet users, desktop, and mobile. They can be shameless enough on a PC even when they ask for something as innocent as your subscription – now imagine the same on a mobile device. It’s much smaller screen makes it a lot easier to obstruct a site’s content with a single annoying pop-up form. Google knows this, and so they have rolled out an update that will smack the more selfish website owners with a good penalty in rankings. The algorithm still needs some work, but I hope you know better than to underestimate Google.

Small Font – BAD

This will affect your website in a bad manner.

“What is this? A web page for ants?”

If you’ve ever tried opening a desktop site on a handheld device, you probably had trouble reading its contents. That’s to be expected when a page made for your standard PC display is shrunk to a mere 540×960 pixels. For that reason, the logical solution is to use large (recommended value is 16 pt.) font on your pages – at least above the fold. That’s where the page’s headline is placed, and that’s where it must serve its purpose to get the visitors invested in the content below.

Small Touch Elements – BAD

This will affect your website in a bad manner.

Do you use interactive elements on your sites, like buttons or checkboxes? They shouldn’t be so small that the user’s finger has trouble pressing on them. Imagine the frustration from trying to hit a pixel on a screen and missing ten times in a row. What do you think will happen to your conversion rates if visitors can’t fulfill their goal on your site?

Missing isn’t the worst-case scenario, though; it could get much more dramatic. If small elements are placed next to each other, the user might press the wrong one and end up posting his or her credit card information online for all to see! A bit extreme, but for an example, it brings the point across nicely.

Internal Links – BE CAREFUL

Mobile pages tend to have around 75% fewer links on them than desktop pages. This is due to the limitations placed on their size and content in order to improve UX. In a similar manner to other interactive elements, avoid placing the links too close to each other, as it’s too easy for a human digit to slip.

Content Factors

Keywords and Related Phrases in the Body – GOOD

Your site will be benefited by this.

While keywords are still important, no web page is free from the risk of being over-optimized. SEO is like chocolate: too much can and will poison you! This works with keyword presence in your content, too.

And the rule of thumb is simple. The longer the text, the more keywords, and related terms it’s likely to have naturally. But mobile sites normally have shorter texts, so it would be strange for them to have as many keywords and phrases. Avoid over-optimization and keep it natural for a number of words you have.

Keywords in External Links – BAD

This will affect your website in a bad manner.

Internet marketing is a dog-eat-dog kind of world. Even after doing your SEO perfectly, you can still trip over your own two feet and fall face down in the dirt.

If you know how backlinks work and what kind of advantage they provide, it should be easy to see how this could work against you. If you are aiming to rank higher for certain keywords, don’t help other websites rank for them by putting your keywords into the anchor text that links out to them. Google might interpret an outbound link with a valuable keyword in it as indicating a source that is more relevant to the page’s topic than your own site.

Word Count – BE CAREFUL

While desktop sites remain ahead of mobile ones in terms of how many words per page they use, the mobile sites’ word count appears to be growing little by little. Curiously, a higher number of words places you further away from the top position in rankings, but URLs ranked worse than the top 10 have roughly the same text length as in the top 3.

Setting aside the confusing statistics, you should try to make your content rich by the mobile screen’s standards rather than the desktop’s. Between 700 and 1000 words is plenty.

Additional Factors

Social Signals – GOOD

Your site will be benefited by this.

Rich social engagement provides a ranking boost for a site regardless of the platform. Users browse social networks on mobile, too. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t use this to your advantage.

An average user spends about 30 minutes a day on Facebook alone. Over 77% of all content shared via mobile goes through messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, making them an excellent platform for attracting visitors (through means such as newsletters, invitations or ad targeting). Don’t forget that social media’s primary purpose is communication, and communication equals feedback! You won’t find it in such abundance anywhere else.

Local Search Optimization – GOOD

Your site will be benefited by this.

Local SEO is essential for every business with a brick-and-mortar location. Mobile devices can be taken anywhere with ease and thus are more often used for finding places (including places to shop). Putting these two facts together, mobile SEO will give your business an even stronger presence on the Web.

But you may get discouraged if you try to research the conversions. According to data from Q4 2016, desktop websites got a 26% cart conversion rate, while smartphones brought only 16%! What gives? Well, there’s a really simple explanation: it’s because the shoppers prefer to make purchases on a larger screen. They use a mobile device to find what they want and then switch to a desktop machine to enter payment information.

See how important it is to have a site tailored for each type of platform?

How To Create A Successful Landing Page For Your Website

Posted on April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 by Danish Ansari

When building a PPC campaign, finding the right set of keywords and targeting right set of people is very demanding. All this is done to make the user click on your ad and ultimately redirecting the user to your website’s landing page. Therefore, it is very important to know how to create a successful landing page.

When it comes to building a landing page, design is everything. As a webmaster you have very little time to impress your user by your landing page’s design and key components . So, it should be clear to potential leads what you are selling from the moment they get to the page.

Most people believe that aesthetics is the easy part of creating a landing page. But in reality, a poorly designed page has been known to kill conversion rates. Your design will make it easy for people to understand your landing page and convert.

These steps will guide you through designing a successful landing page that converts.

#1 Use Better Images, Context And Videos To Explain

The use of good quality images and videos can show the benefits of your offering. Images and video should have a direct purpose on your page rather than just filling space. It lets potential leads put themselves in the actual situation of your product or services. For example: if a hotel resort puts images of white sands and people relaxing by the beach, it will let people imagine themselves in this situation instead of just reading about it.

Also, display pictures of happy people to make the page welcoming to visitors. It will make your landing page warm and personal. Designers we can use emotions to make potential leads feel a certain way. Displaying a smiling face puts them in a comfortable and positive mood which has a positive impact on the conversion.

#2 Use Colors To Highlight Important Areas Of Landing Page

An example of a contrasting color is having a bright orange button on a dark blue background. People will be naturally attracted to this difference. Use this in your design to highlight the sections of your page that you want to be seen.

The heading, the caption, the form and the CTA should be the most prominent on your landing page. With contrasting colors and good use of white space it’s easier to potential leads to digest the information and convert. One thing to avoid is packing too much information on one page. This is a mistake that many marketers do.

#3 Obvious Call-To-Action Button

Your CTA button is ultimately the most important feature of your landing page. The entire goal of the landing page is to get people to see that button so they take action on your page. The effectiveness of your CTA button can be instantly changed with eye catching design or a great placement.

A couple of design tips: bold the font and make the button quite large.

Generally, place your CTA button on the top part of your page for it to be seen directly without scrolling down. The more specific and clear your button is, the higher conversion rates will be.

#4 Make Your Benefits Clear

Visitors will ask themselves “what exactly am I going to get from this relationship?” Potential leads need to know that your product offering meet their needs. Present your benefits in a clear and simple way that makes them curious for more information. It’s best to present these benefits briefly. This will let potential leads to easily skim through and see if it’s the right product for them or not.

#5 Provide Potential Leads Easiness Of A Single Click

Your goal is to provide potential leads with an easy path to conversion. So you need to provide users with only one action that they can take. This means removing any navigation bars, footers, or outside links that drive attention away from your CTA. Having multiple things on your page for leads to click on, is a huge distraction from your CTA and your main goal. So get rid of the other distractions and keep them focused.

#6 Use Bold Headings To Make It Easy For Potential Leads To Scan

Headings and sub-headings are crucial for a landing page as they hook in potential leads. To explain additional benefits or selling points, use bold headings to attract their attention. Break information down into small digestible segments. With small sections and large headings it would be easier for people to skim the information and really digest what you are saying. Near the bottom of your page you should have a bold statement that should reaffirm your value proposition. This is your last chance to tell potential leads that your offer is the right choice.

#7 Bounce Rates Should Be Lowered

As a visitor there is nothing more frustrating than a huge complicated form. Think simple when thinking of designing your form. You want to make it easy for people to enter on your entry form. A recent study done by Hubspot shows that if you reduce the form fields from 4 to 3 it increases conversion rates. Also, avoid too many dropdown menus. When creating a sign-up form, keep your main objectives in mind. Only ask potential leads for information that is necessary to achieve those objectives.

#8 Loading Speed And Device Compatibility Should Be OK

The loading speed of the landing page is the most important factor to be taken into consideration. 40% of users abandon the page if it doesn’t load within 3 seconds. Even though your landing page is very effective at turning prospects into customers, it’s unlikely to generate a positive return if only half of your audience can see it. Spend more time on improving the loading speed of your page before you launch.

Another important component is compatibility. Make sure your landing page is responsive and opens on all kind of devices and browsers.

Designing a landing page is more challenging that it seems. For it to be profitable and effective, the design of your page is as important as the actual content. Potential leads need to easily read that information and understand the message that you’re trying to convey.

Improve your landing page by following the above steps and you’ll be totally satisfied with your conversion rates.

Also, if you are struggling with views on your youtube videos, read Top 10 Ways To Get More Views On YouTube Videos and Did you know Your Web Design Is Influencing Your Websites SEO? Yes, it is true.

And How To Increase Conversion On Your Website after you have a successful landing page.

Your Web Design Is Influencing Your Websites SEO

Posted on April 12, 2017January 9, 2021 by Danish Ansari

Search Engine Optimization is a process to achieve better rankings on search engines. The visibility of the web page highly impacts the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). So, it becomes essential to present well to leave great imprints on user’s mind and bad web design is influencing SEO of your website.

Though inbound linking and definitive keywords play a vital role in SEO, web designing can’t be ignored and always be considered as one important aspect. It plays a significant role in your website’s search rankings. In this article, I’ve shared a few points to consider throughout your website design process.

Create A Mix Of Unique And Searchable Content

Most of the companies get trapped in a perplexity while creating a website. The issue arises when they find it difficult on how to design a website. Whether to keep it unique in the looks or make it easily searchable?

Rather, an equal balance should be maintained while designing a website. Both the attributes are important for building user engagement. So, the designing of a website should be good-looking that attracts more viewers and also keep it easy-to-use which would help you in getting more and the right traffic.

Web Design Styles in Trend

While designing a website, it is important to select a perfect theme that drives more traffic. There are many styles available, but only some of them give a positive impact on your website. Here are some of the most trendy web design styles.

Graphic-Heavy

We all know how appealing are the info-graphics. As it attracts a lot of attention to the site, many brands adopt the graphic-heavy styles in their website. Infographics may be visually engaging, but you should take into consideration that Google and other search engines can’t read images.

Furthermore, larger infographics would take more time to load a page, and the search engine algorithms do not prefer the slow loading websites and web design is influencing SEO badly.

Parallax Design

The most contemporary web design used to achieve success in your SEO efforts is Parallax design. This style is adopted when an entire website is built on a single page. Usually, it creates an illusion of the depth through the background image with definite, precise and crisp drop down menus that navigate to another page.

Visually, parallax style is way more appealing, but search engines face an issue to get the clear idea of the website. Due to this reason, your potential reach diminishes as the search engine indexes only a few pages.

If your site has a lot of content, varied products, and services, then it is recommended to go for other web design styles.

Infinite Scrolling Sites

As the name suggests, this style is implemented for the content to flow flawlessly by scrolling till the bottom of the screen. The outcome of scrolling down the page is an unending stream that continues to grow with the user action.

To get the best example, you can take a glance at Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter. These popular social sites incorporate infinite scrolling web design to provide continuous information on the news feed. Unlike parallax design, this style won’t take extra time to load your web page.

Responsive Design

An approach to designing a website in such a way that it allows to respond viewing in any screen size. It is the most acceptable web design and so, it is considered as an ideal style for SEO purposes.

This style of web design is valuable for SEO, as it reduces the company’s efforts in developing a separate website for each device. This style maintains a consistent user experience.

PageSpeed Insights

PageSpeed Insights is google web developers tool that analyzes the content of your website and determines how fast and responsive your site really is. It can help you identify any major problems on your website, as it has very detailed error explanations and even some tips on how to improve all of the metrics. There are many different problems which might be slowing your websites, so you will have plenty of suggestions on how you can improve this. Doing a bit of image resizing, fixing render blocking, preloading the key requests and removing the unused CSS and Javascript, will help you get amazing scores on the PSI scale. PSI focuses on three different aspects of your website when determining your performance metrics, and those are:

First Contentful Paint
Speed Index
Largest Contentful Paint

An interesting functionality of PSI is the diagnostics. Some websites that use a lot of applications need all of the information about their performance and speed metrics. The diagnostic let’s you do just that, as it even gives you some tips on how to fix some of the problems.
You can check your results on a desktop version, and on a mobile version, which is very important for local SEO.
For some businesses this wouldn’t be enough, as in a different niches, the competition is much tougher. Some business owners decide to go with a software development company to help them create a custom software in addition to their websites.

Website Design Significant Attributes

After learning the trendy web design styles, it is essential to consider important aspects while selecting a perfect web design for your site. Here are four important points to be kept in mind.

Simplicity is the key

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” the quote perfectly goes with web page designing. When your website is simple enough for any user, you’ll manage to engage higher traffic to your website. Designers would bring you a new idea of investing in the latest and trendy layout, but you need to keep in mind the user experience too.

Choose the right website builder

There are many website builders available, but not all are created equal. Some of them will offer you plethora of unique design templates and responsive design options, while others might only have a few templates to choose from and no responsive design capabilities.

It is always recommended to do your homework and research carefully comparing all the available options before honing in on a website builder since bad web design is influencing SEO and we all know that.

Bounce rates are real pain

Remember, it’s not the aesthetics of your website that the search engines are looking at, it’s how helpful do users find it to use. Google won’t penalize you for a weird looking design, but they may penalise you if the users aren’t able to navigate through and immediately turn back from your home page. So, design a website perfectly and reduce the bounce rates.

Size does matter

The size of web page chiefly affects search engine rankings. As the web page loading time is considered in the rankings, it is important to include limited content on the website. You should take care of what information is added while designing a web page. Avoid unnecessary elements and focus only on the important content.

Internet crowd is increasingly rapidly. In this cut-throat competition, it is provided that your website ranks well. In order to achieve higher search engine rankings, web designing should be given equal importance. As designing a website highly affects the SEO results, just go through these points before designing your next project.

Wrapping Up

In short your web design should be appealing to your customer since if you are getting decent traffic on your website, your SEO campaigns can be put at rest for a while but if you are starting fresh, SEO is your only hope to come in limelight (SERP) and generate traffic for your website or blog.

Anything you do, but make sure you are not violating any special SEO rules to rank your site as in worst case scenario it can result in banning of your site from major search engines.

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WordPress SEO – Toolbox Of 81 Best Plugins

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.

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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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.

Hope you have enjoyed this blog post and our other blogs as well.
In case if you have missed reading, go through Top 10 Most Illustrated Web Designs or Top 10 Ways To Get More Views On YouTube Videos.

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New Plugin Live – Clock In Portal

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Danish Ansari

Presenting a brand new plugin CLOCK IN PORTAL to monitor your staff members and their daily activities.

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Migrating From HTTP To HTTPS – Infographics

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Danish Ansari

Internet these days is little less secured due to easy availability of knowledge, everybody has the key to break into your less secured website and do their little tricks to show off. Everybody from consumer to companies requires more secured channel or platform to build their website for the sake of the security of their users and their own-self. HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) wasn’t that secured and anyone with some extra knowledge can do the damage to your website or your data. Therefore to make web more safer, people are migrating from HTTP to HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) and trust me that secure isn’t just a word in HTTPS.

HTTPS keeps your data more secured by encrypting the data of your website or personal information of your client such as BANK CARD DETAILS or NAME or ADDRESS for that instance is encrypted into a special segment of codes and digits so it is almost impossible for the notorious brains out there to play around with your data.
Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS isn’t that hard nor it requires knowledge of heavy coding stuff. It can be purchased from your domain/hosting provider and can be easily installed into your website.

Lets learn it with the help of an amazing infographic provided by Matt Banner on one of his posts on ONBLASTBLOG.COM.

Here’s what we’re covering in this INFOGRAPHIC:

How to Switch from HTTP to HTTPS [Infographic]
Ultimate Security with HTTPS: Why You Should Migrate Your Site
How to Safeguard Your WordPress Site [Infographic]
The Current State of WordPress Security
17 Steps You can Take Today to Improve Your WordPress Security

Phew! that’s one great infographic made by Matt.

I hope you have enjoyed learning migrating from http to https, we have some more for you Most Common Web Design Mistakes – Coffin For A Website and Top 10 Ways To Find Topics For Your Blog Those Are In Trend

Top Most Surprising WordPress Statistics

Posted on March 15, 2017August 21, 2017 by Danish Ansari

WordPress being most popular content management system (CMS) of all time has gained popularity over time. Launched on May 27, 2003, WordPress has been used more compared to his other famous counterparts. Currently, there are a lot of options as far as choosing any CMS to develop your website is concerned but WordPress had the guts to sway off with the time and come up as a leader.

There are some surprising facts and stats that revolve around WordPress and today we are going to reveal the major WordPress statistics to clarify the myths and truths moving around the web.

WordPress Statistics

1. Technorati’s 48 Blogs Out Of Top 100 Are Managed On WordPress.

When you consider that there are is an enormous amount of alternative content manage systems available, this statistic speaks volumes about WordPress popularity.

If you decide to go with WordPress, you will definitely be with good company. The New York Times, CNN, Mashable, and eBay all run their blogs on the most popular CMS in the world – WordPress.

2. 74+ Million Sites Are Using WordPress

Yep, you read that right. 74,652,825 sites out there are depending on WordPress. That’s one site per person in Turkey.

Around 50% of this figure (close to 37 million) is hosted on the free WordPress.com. In the realm of self-hosted sites, WordPress accounts for 18.9% of all websites. That’s even more astounding when you consider that over 70% of sites worldwide do not use a CMS.

3. WordPress-Related Keywdords Score 37 Million Searches Per Month

The keyword “WordPress” alone receives over 450,000 exact match searches every month. That’s just “WordPress”, not “WordPress help” or “WordPress plugins” or anything of the sort.

When you count the searches of all keywords with WordPress or WP (a common abbreviation for WordPress) in them, the monthly figure is a whopping 37 million searches. Assuming that this figure remains constant, WordPress will get 444 million searches in 2014. That’s nearly one and a half times the population of the U.S.

WordPress is searched five times as much as Joomla and nine times more often than Drupal.

4. 40 Translations of WordPress

While the actual number isn’t half so mind-boggling as the others you’ve just read, it is no less significant. If English isn’t your first language and you would rather have Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, French or Finnish (see full list of WordPress translations) governing your dashboard, you’re in luck.

If you don’t happen to speak one of the forty languages listed and you are more comfortable with something else, hold on tight. The WordPress team is actively updating their list with new language translations all the time.

5. 22 Out Of 100 New US Registered Domains Choose WordPress To Go Live

Out of every 100 domains registered in the U.S., 22 of them will be run on WordPress. Considering that an average of 120,000 domains are registered worldwide per day, it’s safe to say that WordPress is growing by leaps and bounds.

That “18.9%-of-all-website” figure is increasing all the time.

6. WordPress.com Gets More Unique Visitors Than Amazon (US)

WordPress.com records an astonishing 126M unique visitors per month, while Amazon falls quite a ways behind, clocking in at 96M uniques per month.

7. Only 229 People Works At WordPress.com

It’s hard to believe but true. The site that receives 130% the unique visits of Amazon employs only 229 people. To keep that in perspective, Amazon.com employs 88,400 people to run their business, 38,603% more than WordPress.com.

That is probably one of the reasons why they’re always looking for new developers to join their team.

8. 6 New WordPress.com Posts Every Second

That’s right. Every second, close to 6 (the actual figure is 5.7) new posts are published on WordPress.com blogs. That averages out to 342 posts per minute. Just above 20,000 per day. And a grand total of 7.49 million annually.

Not only is WordPress.org the world’s most popular self-hosted CMS solution, but the free version is also second in popularity on the list of free blogging platforms, with Google’s own Blogger topping it.

There’s a neat map view on the WordPress.com site that shows you the location of a blogger as he publishes a post in real-time. Check it out.

9. WordPress Developers Charge $50/hr

A 2012 survey revealed that the average rate for a WordPress project clocks in at $50/hr. It’s nothing to write home about, but $50/hour is a decent sum for most.

oDesk, one of the most popular outsourcing sites in the world, lists WordPress development as the fifth most-requested skill. Freelancer.com, a similar website, has thus far recorded over $3.5M in revenue for WordPress developers.

WordPress development is clearly a valuable skill to learn — one that can definitely pay off in the future. The need for it won’t be going anywhere for a while.

10. Number Of Live WordPress Plugins – 29000+

Without doubt, the number one feature that sets WordPress apart from any other CMS is their plugins. Plugins extend and capitalize on the functionality of WordPress — removing access to them would cripple WordPress users (and that’s one of the reasons why WordPress.com falls second to Blogger).

Fortunately, nothing of the sort is happening. On the contrary, WordPress.org’s database of plugins has recently hit 29K and a new one is added nearly every hour. In total, these plugins have been downloaded 286,000,000+ times. Give it a few years and all you’ll be hearing is “there’s a plugin for that”.

11. 98 Versions of WordPress to Date

There might only be 229 employees, but those 229 sure are kept on their toes. Major updates are rolled out once every few weeks.

In addition to that, the WordPress.com source code is updated 60-80 times per day, pushed out many times throughout the day. These changes are synced with the WordPress.org platform daily.

12. Total Downloads Of WordPress Is More Than 46 Millions

The free WordPress.org platform that supports self-hosted websites has been downloaded 46 million times up till July of 2013, which approximates to 100 downloads every day since 2003. You might not have downloaded WordPress and uploaded it to your FTP manager yourself, but when you installed it using Fantastico or the much loved 1-Click, it was counted as a download.

Since it’s only in the recent years that blogging has suddenly become quite a bit more popular, the downloads per day in 2014 are significantly higher (think tens of thousands) than they were in 2003.

13. Most Business Websites Are Built On WordPress

Of the top 1,000,000 sites in the world, the number of business sites (most popular with WordPress) powered by WordPress is five times the number of WordPress-managed news sites (least popular with WordPress).

This statistic is not all that surprising, as online marketing circles will often discuss WordPress more than any other CMS out there. WordPress also ranks high as one of the most blogged topics in the online marketing niche and nearly all its keywords have very high PPC competition.

14. Most Popular Plugin Of All Time is Akismet

Of all the 19,000 free plugins available for download, Akismet has received the most downloads. The main reason for this is that Akismet comes auto-installed with the newer versions of WordPress.

Akismet has been downloaded a total of 18 million times, a truly mind-blowing figure. The spam protection plugin alone has been responsible for close to .06% of all plugin downloads at WordPress.org. The All in One SEO Pack from Michael Tolbert comes in at a very close second, with a total of 17 million downloads. In third place,with 14 million downloads, is Contact Form 7 , another familiar name to most bloggers.

Wrapping Up:

WordPress is rising day by day and the stats are mere numbers to show off. But the pace with which WordPress is actually rising is flawless and uncompetable. So don’t just wait and be a spectator, instead be a part of it and go with the flow.

And to extend the knowledge bank, you can also read WordPress vs. Medium – Which Is The Better Choice and How To Improve SEO In 2017.

And of course, how can we forget WordPress in 2017 – Trends To Be Followed

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