WordPress Quick Speed Optimizations
Having a good blog isn’t all about SEO, linking and content. The experience must also be good for the user. And if the user has to wait till their coffee is cold before your blog loads, they are sure to not come back again. Heck, they will probably not wait longer than 10 seconds, and that’s if you’re lucky.
In today’s fast paces world you need fast and efficient websites. With the help of this article, you can speed up your Wordpress blog in just a few minutes and little work on your part.
This quick tutorial is based upon the full 38 Way To Speed Up Your WP Blog article on WPGarage. I have picked out some of the tips for you to use here. The tips I have here won’t take you as long as the full 38 steps. Using the steps I went from a monstrous tested 18second full load time down to a nice ~3.5seconds load time. Very nice improvement. Does anyone else notice that my blog feels snappier and faster?
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Let’s be honest. Freelancing isn’t easy, especially when you’re a writer. Success, which comes as a slow ramp-up from usually humble beginnings, is defined only by the lengths of feasts between famines. Sometimes, work comes in faster than you can handle it. Other times, work comes in a trickle, if at all. To even get to this point, though, you need to jump the first big hurdle and land a client.
For some writers, finding a client seems like an impossible task. You might not know where to look or how to solicit business. For others, finding a client isn’t hard, but landing a job is. It’s the classical catch-22: you need a portfolio to get work, but you need to get work to have a portfolio.
Fortunately, the internet makes this catch-22 irrelevant. If you want to jump right into print-writing, for magazines or newspapers, you almost always need a portfolio of previously published work. For online content creation, you can write your own ticket by showcasing your work on free content repositories. (These repositories have the added benefit of “writer communities,” which we’ll discuss later.)
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Filed under: Business, How-to, Personal Development
Want to start freelancing? Great! But are you ready? I mean, are you really ready to freelance? Do you know what you are going to do? What to do? Whom to work for? How about paying off current and immediate future’s bills?
Do you know the answers to each of those questions? If not, maybe freelancing isn’t the right step for you at the moment. But if you want to get a taste for freelancing without quitting your day job that is also very good. Either way, you don’t have to know all the answers right now, you can learn along the way.
Sorry for scarring your earlier, but it’s for your own good. Most people jump right into the deep end of the pool without knowing how to swim. Sadly, it usually is not the case they by being in the deep end they learn how to swim … they give up saying that it’s not for them (or drown).
Freelancing for the first time is a scary experience. It’s something completely new for many of you, out in the world on your own. Only yourself to blame if something goes wrong … it is a big responsibility, but a good one. I hope to give you a good knowledge footing to get you started on the right path.
Hopefully after reading the tips, tricks and articles you will have a good know-how of freelancing. Also, at the bottom of the article I have a list for you for all kinds of great places to find freelance work. Some places you might already know of, some might come as a surprise and some will be new. So let’s get started…
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