Hosting Recommendations for your WordPress Site

Hosting Recommendations for your WordPress Site

There is an overwhelming choice of web hosts these days and it can be hard to determine which would be a good fit. A Google search will reveal many blog posts on the subject which are really are just a roundup of that blog’s sub-par affiliates that haven’t been vetted for quality.

I’ve been running my own sites for over 14 years now, and have also had many years experience with client websites and all their various hosts. So I have direct experience with many different hosts and have also interacted with the technical support departments of many of them.

My recommendations have changed over the years as the landscape has evolved – previously reliable hosts have gone downhill, and a new segment of WordPress-specific hosts has developed and thrived.

This post features a small quiz to generate some quality hosting recommendations for your next WordPress project

Which Speed Testing Tool Should You Use For Your WordPress Site?

Which Speed Testing Tool Should You Use For Your WordPress Site?

Measuring the loading time of your WordPress site is a critical step in optimizing for speed. You have to know how your site is performing to understand where the bottlenecks are and to measure the impact of optimizations you’re making, or the content you add to your site. There are numerous tools available for measuring the performance of your site, each of them providing a different result, which is understandably confusing. Which one is “right”?

So which speed testing tool should you use? The real answer is that it depends on what you want to measure in how much detail you want to measure it.

Increase Traffic and Improve SEO Using Google Search Console

Increase Traffic and Improve SEO Using Google Search Console

Now that you’re all set up with Search Console and Analytics, let’s look at a couple of easy ways to improve your SEO and traffic using the information these tools provide.

Using the information provided in the Acquisition > Search Console tabs we’re going to look at how to find opportunities to improve the ranking of your pages, find more content to write about, make the most of the traffic you’re already getting and more. By looking at these reports, you can create a targeted approach based on real data.