Does your blog load slowly?  C’mon.  Be honest…we’re all friends here.

If you are not the tech savvy type, I’d be willing to bet your site loads slower than it should.  Most amateur bloggers (and some professional ones) are not very good developers.  Here’s where I would normally make the case for hiring a firm like BlogCraving to handle these things for you, but this time I will spare you.

Let’s just jump right to the point and find out if your site is a load hog.

The speed test

Head on over to tools.pingdom.com.  This site will tell you definitively how fast your site loads.  All you have to do is put in your website’s URL and run the test.  It will show you the load time for every single element on your site.

Pingdom Tools

Then, just scroll down to the very bottom of the report to see the total load time for your site.  Continue learning how to optimize your blog

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How To: License photos for your gossip blog

January 3, 2010
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Many of my clients are celebrity gossip and entertainment bloggers.  The gossip niche has been our bread and butter for many years now.  We stumbled across the category by accident really.  It turns out that in 2006, there were a lot of high traffic gossip sites that needed real technical management in order to keep [...]

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New Year’s Resolution: Consistency

January 1, 2010
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I hate New Year’s resolutions. The whole ideas is just silly to me. However, the first of the year for whatever reason feels like a blank slate. There is a new sense of possibility that only seems to come around this time of year.

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Top 5 Tips for Hiring Help

December 31, 2009
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When building your online business (or any business really), you’ll quickly realize that you can’t do it all yourself. You are simply going to have to hire some help. It does not mean you have to go out and start hiring full time employees. However, you’ll probably need a few contract or project guru’s to help you along the way.

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Design By Committee: The killer of great ideas

December 29, 2009
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A colleague of mine sent me this video the other day. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It video so perfectly summarizes the problem with the creative process, it is hysterical. At the same time, it is truly sad for those of us tied to big business.

To sum it up, design by committee is the killer groundbreaking ideas. Period.

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