Introduction to WordPress: Performance Tuning and Technical SEO Crash Course

In this one hour presentation we'll discuss any/all of the following as it pertains to the WordPress (WP) Content Management System (CMS):

• How to test your WP website page load time.
• We'll review several plugins that can help improve performance and examine what the problems are and how they address them.
• We'll discuss implications of performance as it pertains to SEO, search engine ranking, and visitor bounce rate.
• We'll discuss hosting providers and what they offer.
• We'll review performance tuning the Apache web server.
• Moving your WP website from one host to another.

The following documents cover in more detail some of the topics which will be brought up during this meeting:

• Assess Your Website Performance in under Ten Minutes, https://thospfuller.com/2020/09/27/assess-your-website-performance-in-under-ten-minutes/
• SEO Cheat Sheet #1: “Which are the best SEO strategies?”, https://thospfuller.com/2020/09/27/seo-cheat-sheet-1-which-are-the-best-seo-strategies/
• SEO Cheat Sheet #2: Page Speed & Image Optimization, https://thospfuller.com/2020/09/27/seo-cheat-sheet-2-page-speed-image-optimization/
• SEO Cheat Sheet #3: Long-Tail Keyword Crash Course, https://thospfuller.com/2020/10/10/seo-cheat-sheet-3-long-tail-keyword-crash-course/
• SEO Cheat Sheet #4: Several Examples of Low-Hanging SEO Fruit, https://thospfuller.com/2020/10/10/seo-cheat-sheet-4-several-examples-of-low-hanging-seo-fruit/
• SEO Cheat Sheet #5: Delay, Delay, Delay, https://thospfuller.com/2020/10/10/seo-cheat-sheet-5-delay-delay-delay/

This is a remote only event. By attending this meetup you grant permission to be recorded and/or streamed online.