Page speed is a ranking factor in the Google Search engine. According to Google officials it is currently used in 1 out of 1000 queries. I think it was Matt Cutts who said that speed acted as a tie breaker in situations. It is however likely that speed will play a bigger role in the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Setting Up A Content Delivery Network In WordPress
In order to improve connection times for users from all over the world, Ghacks enabled a content delivery network (CDN) yesterday. A CDN basically stores files and information on mirror servers all around the world in order to serve data to users from locations closest to them. This speeds up the connection process noticeably. In [...]
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10 Things Webmasters Do Besides Writing Articles
I sometimes get asked about my workday. Many people I have been talking to about the workday assume that it is an easy peasy job which basically centers around researching topics to write about and writing articles afterwards, preferably in a very nice environment such as a garden or beach condo. I usually manage to [...]
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Using Content Copying Websites To Your Advantage
Every webmaster operating a blog will sooner or later notice that there are some websites out there that do nothing else than to copy contents of other websites and post them on their own. This is usually an automated process done with the use of a script and RSS news feeds. The script will check [...]
