Are blog post titles important for SEO?

Yes, they are, which is why when you’re writing a new blog post you need to choose the title carefully. If you’re blogging to improve your SEO then the title of the post is possibly the most important bit of text in the whole post. Try to incorporate one of your target keyword phrases, but…

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Does duplicate content affect my site’s SEO?

You may have heard that copying content either within your own site, or from someone else’s site, can cause your site to lose Google points. Is that true? Well, yes and no. If it’s done maliciously (like you copy a whole site because you can’t be bothered to create your own and want to steal…

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Is there a quick way to speed my site up?

Site speed ups can be very complicated and involve a lot of tweaking, but if your site is loading really slowly have a look at the filesizes of the images on your pages. A large filesize will slow your site down considerably, particularly on mobiles which have restricted bandwidth. You should be aiming for images…

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Do I really need a firewall and anti-virus on my WordPress website?

Yes, you do, particularly if you’re using cloud hosting (which most of us do) rather than your own servers or virtual private servers (VPS). Most hosts provide some sort of firewall protection, but on cloud hosting the firewall runs around the cloud space, rather than around your individual website. That means that if any one…

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