Structural Tips

 1. Is your hosting company and server up to par or are you losing visitors or productivity because of external factors? Invest in a reputable web host provider.
 2. Make your blog faster. Check out the tips from Google’s PageSpeed tool and leverage a service like CloudFlare.
 3. Review your main pages – About Us, Contact Form, and Privacy Policy, for example – and make the necessary updates. Consider investing the time to create an attention-getting “About Me” page.
 4. Delete outdated or unused plugins. They pose security threats and possibly slow down the load times of your blog pages.
 5. Update or find new plugins that will improve site performance and usability. W3 Total Cache is the industry go-to resource for WordPress sites.
 6. Clean up your files. Delete duplicates of content and images and delete old backups.
 7. Compress images to save bandwidth and increase page speed. Use the “WP Smush” plugin or create an account at PicMonkey to optimize images for the web.
 8. Check and fix dead links with Google Webmaster Tools. If your blog runs on WordPress, install the Broken Link Checker plugin for immediate updates.
 9. Strengthen your blog’s security by regularly updating WordPress, themes and plugins, creating a backup on a weekly basis, avoid using “admin” as your username, and install the plugin “Limit Login Attempts”.