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Site Architecture Tips to Make Your Blog Load Faster

February 20, 2015 by Christopher Jan Benitez

As a blogger, your main concern is to share your ideas top your target audience.

To get to that point, you will need to learn how to build a blog, something that this resource can help you do.

Once you have built your blog, you will need gain blog visitors for your message to be heard. For this, you will need to learn SEO to optimize your blog so search engines can index your pages.

An aspect of SEO that deals with usability and user experience is site architecture. Observing the best practices of site architecture will make your blog load faster, which impacts your bottom line.

Below are basic site architecture tips to help get your site up to speed.

Ensure a clean code

Clean HTML and CSS code is key to a fast loading and high performing blog. It helps in the responsiveness of your website on different devices and

A quick way to pop the hood of your website is by running it using the W3C validator and checking for validation output errors. If you’re not a programmer, you will need help professional help to resolve the detected problems.

A recent development in markup languages used to display website content is HTML5. Following the tutorials featured in this post should give you a better understanding on how this markup language can help develop an efficient website or blog.

For a quick overview of HTML5 and the tags you can use, refer to the cheat sheet here.

Create a Sitemap

A sitemap makes it easier for search engine spiders to crawl your site. This site tells them all your pages so they won’t have to browse through each from your site. This way, your pages will be indexed much faster.

To create a sitemap, use a sitemap generator tool to automatically create the sitemap for your website. Download the file and upload it on Google Webmaster Tool. If you have a WordPress blog, download any of these plugins to generate the file from your dashboard.

Siloing

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This term is introduced by internet marketer Bruce Clay. Taking the concept of silos, website siloing refers to the grouping site pages together that cover the same subject theme.

To learn how to implement this process to your website, read the exhaustive guide here. For an much simpler and version of the guide, begin with this post in a series by Michael Gray. He effectively breaks down the fundamental concepts of siloing in different posts.

WordPress blogs possess an inherent advantage with siloing. New posts can be “siloed” by creating categories. Downloading plugins like the WordPress SEO by Yoast even gives you access to features like breadcrumbs, permalink structures, and others that help with your site architecture.

Go with premium hosting

One of the biggest issues in creating your blog that people take for granted is the web hosting.

If anything, your choice of web hosting plays an important part on how your blog will perform and be received by your target audience.

A poor hosting can cause slow loading time, lots of downtime, and compromised security. As a result, this could impact your visitors.

Even if you have created a website using an unsatisfactory web hosting, it’s not too late to migrate your data from there to an even better hosting service.

This post should give you a better idea on what to look for in a web hosting. Once you have chosen a better web hosting, this post will teach you how to migrate your WordPress blog from your unreliable hosting to a more stable one.

If you have a blog that receives thousands – if not millions – of traffic daily, you must consider dedicated and managed WordPress hosting. This is a high-performance hosting service that ensures fast loading of your blog.

It appoints a support team that will take care off all of the issues on your back end. This way, you can focus on developing your site without worrying about site downtime.

More on site architecture:

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Filed Under: Blogging, Usability Tagged With: bruce clay, search engine optimization, seo, siloing, site architecture, sitemap

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