I personally don’t stress about page speed as a ranking factor at all, but I do care about user experience. And a good way to improve user experience is by lazy loading the images on your website.
By far the best WordPress plugin to lazy load images is a3 Lazy Load. In this article I am going to show you how you can configure this plugin in 5 minutes and have a faster loading website straight away.
Is blogging still worth it today? Is it still a viable business model, or is it a waste of time? Read on, as I share my real-life experience.
Not too long ago, blogging was a bit like maintaining an online diary. Bloggers would write stories about their daily lives and share them with their friends and relatives.
Working from home sounds like the ultimate dream for many of us. No boss or annoying colleagues around, no stressful commute or ugly corporate uniform. Sounds like you’ve made it, right?
If working from home is your dream, you’ve still got to finance it, and that means getting some serious work done. To help you on your path, I have put together my top 11 tips to be and stay productive when working from home.
Blogging is difficult and time consuming, it really is.
Not only is there a lot of work involved in getting good quality content published on a regular basis, you also need to work hard to keep both your readers AND the search engines happy.
I’ve made my fair share of blogging mistakes over the years. But that’s okay, because making mistakes is the only way to learn and move forward.
Perhaps one of the most neglected parts of WordPress blogs is the good old category page. Whenever you navigate to a category page within a blog or website, chances are it’s not much more than a list of the latest blog posts within that category.
And worse, often the title of that category page is something along the lines of “Category Name Archives”.
Having used several Thrive Themes products for my websites over the years, I thought it would be good to write a review about their WordPress themes, page builders, and plugins.
I can honestly say that discovering Thrive Themes several years ago was a turning point in my online business. Things have evolved since then, but I am still a happy user of various Thrive products.
The Internet is overcrowded with WordPress blogging tools, services, and other goodies designed to make your life as a blogger easier.
With so many options available, it’s tough working out which ones you should use and which ones you should avoid.
Ever wanted to share a Tweet on your Facebook timeline or on your Facebook page, and you couldn’t work out how to do it?
One would be forgiven for thinking that this is an easy thing to do, but it’s actually not as straightforward as it may sound.
Before you read on, this article is NOT about auto-posting from Twitter to Facebook by connecting your Twitter and Facebook accounts. Instead, the below steps describe the manual process of sharing a Tweet on Facebook.
Writing all the content for my websites myself is essentially a mission impossible. Outsourcing some of the writing is a no-brainer, but finding (and keeping) good writers can be quite the challenge.
I recently went through a recruitment sprint on OnlineJobs.ph, a job board for virtual workers in the Philippines. Whilst this website is mainly focused on finding virtual assistants, there are also good writers to find there.
With the release of WordPress 5.5, users now have image lazy loading turned on by default in their websites. That’s right, lazy loading is now a standard feature in WordPress that you can’t just turn off.
I personally don’t like this at all, and in this article I am going to explain how you can disable lazy loading in WordPress. Plus, I am going to give you two reasons why you should consider doing this.
