The WordPress engine is pretty efficient out of the box, but once you start loading plugins the performance and responsiveness of your site might go downhill. On top of that the consumption of resources might become too big, possibly leading to a suspension of your hosting account (especially if you use shared hosting).

Over the years I played with and tweaked my WordPress plugins trying to achieve a good performance level, and below you’ll find the tips I learned along the way:

1. Use a Cache Plugin

Serving cached versions of your pages is one of the most efficient ways to speed up your site and to reduce the CPU and memory consumption on your server. Also, if you are not using the W3TC plugin yet I highly recommend you switch to it, as it works much more efficiently than the other plugins available.

2. Remove All Unnecessary Plugins

Unless your site absolutely relies on a plugin to work I would recommend removing it. Sure, you might need to lose a functionality or two, but in the long run this will keep your site running fast and securely. Keep in mind that it’s possible to hard code what some plugins do, as well. For example, instead of using a plugin to generate a list of “Popular Posts” on your sidebar you could create the list yourself with raw HTML. Instead of using a contact form plugin you could simply write a paragraph on your “Contact” page including your email address there. So on and so forth.

3. Pay Special Attention to Post-Level Plugins

On most WordPress sites and blogs, the bulk of the traffic goes to the posts. The homepage, the category and archive pages receive around 20% of the overall traffic, if that, while the posts receive 80%.

This means that plugins that act at post-level will consume most of your resources. Examples include plugins to change SEO aspects of your posts (e.g., All in One SEO Pack), plugins to display related posts and so on. As a result you should put an extra effort to either remove or optimize those plugins (more on that below).

4. Consider Substituting All In One SEO Pack

The All in One SEO Pack plugin is certainly one of the best SEO plugins around, but it’s also pretty intensive on the resources of your server. For small sites this won’t be a problem, but once your traffic starts growing you might start to feel it.

A good alternative is called Greg’s High Performance SEO. According to the author All in One SEO Pack outputs 2000 lines of code per page load/view, while Greg’s plugin output only 700 lines.

In my opinion the main benefit of those SEO plugins is the ability to customize the title tag. If that is the most important factor for you as well you can be even more extreme and use no plugin at all. Instead use the piece of code below to create optimized title tags for your posts:

<title><?php if (is_home () ) { bloginfo(‘name’); }
elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo ' - ' ; bloginfo(‘name’); }
elseif (is_single() ) { single_post_title();}
elseif (is_page() ) { single_post_title();}
else { wp_title(‘’,true); } ?></title>

5. Consider Substituting YARPP

Along with All In One SEO Pack there’s another plugin that is very popular and yet very resource intensive: YARPP (Yet Another Relate Posts Plugin).

One alternative you can consider is the Efficient Related Posts plugin. The main difference is that the database of related posts is updated only when a post is created/updated, while other plugins tend to build the list on the fly, whenever a post is loaded.

6. Optimize Your Database Tables

As with any dynamic content management system, great part of the work your WordPress site does is related to getting, storing, removing and updating information on its database. That’s why optimizing your database tables can affect your site’s performance.

A nice plugin you can use for this purpose is WP-Optimize. It will remove your post revisions, clean your comments (e.g., spam and deleted ones), run optimization queries and so on.

Your visitor came from search engine and Got a 404 error. This is the bad thing for website owner that his users are being disappointed. Everyone knows that with the passage of time, websites grows and pages are added continuously.

So, this is very common to get some broken links because sometimes we accidently delete some pages or some of our pages are expired due to many reasons. Then we should have to do something with these broken links so that the users may not get worried.

For wordpress users there are many broken Link Checkers are available but most of them have too many disadvantages. Today, while I was searching, I come across a very powerful and hand plugin named Broken Link Checker.

Broken Link Checker plugin

This nifty plugin runs in the background anytime you’ve got your admin console open, and produces a report in the dashboard if it finds any dud links or missing images. Each row in the table also has a number of options that allow you to fix the problem without leaving the admin console, so it’s quick and easy to fix them.

Configuration

As you can see, configuration is straightforward:

• Status – this alerts you to any problems found, with a link to the management page. You can also manually restart the scanning process, although this should rarely be necessary.
• Check every post – here you can configure how frequently your site will be checked.
• Broken link CSS – until they are fixed, by default any broken links will be displayed as a visual cue to your visitors.
• Exclusion list – I haven’t found a need to use this as yet.
• Work session length – pretty self-explanatory!
• “Delete Post” option – the plugin author doesn’t recommend you use this, and neither do I!

If you change any of these values, don’t forget to click the Update Options button.

Fixing broken links

The management screen displays a table, with each row representing a broken link or missing image. It looks like this:

Here’s a brief explanation of each of the columns:

• Post – displays the title of the post or page which has the broken link
• Link text – displays the link text
• URL – displays the faulty URL, along with an Edit option for you to correct it
• View – this allows you to view the post or page, as seen by your visitors
• Edit Post – this takes you to the post editor so you can make changes in context
• Discard – this removes the row from the table, although it will reappear with the next scan if the link hasn’t been fixed.
• Unlink – this gives you the option to remove the link from the post, whilst retaining the link text.

Every blogger wants to get something in return for the efforts and time he put in to his blog. Everyone wants to generate a decent income from his/her blog. Though there are a lot of methods for monetizing a blog’s traffic, Google Adsense is still the most popular and widely used method of monetization. If you are already using Google Adsense on your blog or still planning to use it then here are the 12 wordpress plugins for Google Adsense which will help you in managing the ads on your blog more effectively and to increase your Google adsense earnings.

-    Adsense Manager: – This is one of the most popular and widely used of all the WordPress Plugins. It is essential for Adsense management in the WordPress Blogs. Adsense Manager also supports other programs like YPN and Commission Junction. With this plugin, you can insert Adsense code at any place in your blog.

-    Google Adsense for Feeds:  This is a WordPress Plugin that adds Adsense to your feed automatically without any effort. It is a great alternative to Feedburner Adsense ads.

-    Adsense Immediately:  With Adsense Immediately, you can increase the adsense income of your blog.  This plugin allows you to easily insert Adsense Ads into the body of your content.

-    Adsense Attachment Page: This plugin helps you to show attachments with thumbnail images to enable the page to appear in full size when you click on it. It is an avenue for you to show large images in new Windows with an Adsense Attachment Page.

-    Adsense Earnings WordPress Plugins: This is a great plugin to check your Adsense earnings within the WordPress Admin Panel. It can be used to check your earnings in your Dashboard or Options page and show the public what your revenues are.

-    Shylock Adsense WordPress Plugin: This plugin helps you in inserting Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. You can also set the number of days you want to show Adsense Ads on your articles.

-    All in One Adsense and YPN: This is used to add Google Adsense ads or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your post automatically irrespective of the number of pages. With this plugin, it is possible for you to stop ads from showing in some pages if you so wish.

-    Adsense Deluxe: Adsense Deluxe for WordPress Plugins is used mainly for quickly adding Google or Yahoo ads to your blog. This is an easy to use plugin, particularly for WordPress 1.5 and WordPress 2.0.

-    Googmonify: – This is a WordPress Plugin that gives you the opportunity of inserting Google Adsense Ad Units into your posts with the aid of some tags that are very easy to use. You can also to track your ads to get accurate knowledge of your ads’ performance.

-    Who Sees Ads: – This is an advanced ad management plugin which allows you to determine who will view your ads based on the user defined conditions or context (A state of affairs dictated by you to display or not to display an ad with Who Sees Ads).

 -   Author Adsense: – This is very useful Plugin for group blogs  or for blogs having multiple authors . With the help of this Plugin, every author can easily insert their Google Adsense Publisher ID  to their own posts.

-    More from Google: – Allows you to identify a search term for each post you make. The search term is used to create a link at the bottom of your post which in turn links to search results that you have already created. This will motivate your readers to Google for related articles without leaving your site.  This can generate revenue for you in the long run from Adsense for Search.

Are you already a Google Adsense publisher and using any other wordpress plugin then feel free to share it with us in comments below.

Guest Post By: Gagan

Gagan works for Go-gulf.com, a web design kuwait company that provides web design solution in Middle East.

When we talk about SEO of WordPress, one important thing is submission of sitemap to search engine like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask and so on. Submission of sitemap will make sure your website will get indexed properly and Google bots can crawl your internal links without any issue.

Robots Meta is one useful plugin which I personally recommend for SEO optimization of your blog and I use it  on most of my WordPress SEO work. Apart from noindex, nofollow attribute, Robots meta wordpress plugin can also be use to edit your robots.txt file and .htaccess file.

One important thing which you can also achieve by using Robots meta plugin is verify your Google webmaster meta .

When you add your Site into Google webmaster tool, it ask you to verify your site using meta tag or by uploading a simple HTML file. Verifying with meta tag is very easy. Before starting this process, Install Robots meta wordpress plugin into your blog.

Follow these simple steps :

Add your site to Google webmaster tool, on next screen when it will ask for verification, copy the meta tags from the code. Follow the screenshot :

 Now open your robots meta settings from your dashboard and add the part which is highlighted into the section which says : Verify meta value for Google Webmaster Tools:

 Click on save and now on your Google webmaster tool, click on verify and submit your sitemap and configure other settings to optimize your WordPress blog for SEO.

Google shows a huge no of searches regarding best and free wordpress adsense ready themes. No doubt, there are several wordpress themes are available that are best to maximize google adsense earning such like Adsminded, Freshbrown, prsense and palmixio

But today, I am going to share with you the best and free wordpress adsense ready theme that has great features inside it. All the features are given below.

 Technogati AdsenseReady  V1.2 (New)

AdsenseReady V1.2 has created with the aim of including several features which we knew most bloggers would find useful. One of these is the freedom to choose which type of ad units should be automatically displayed.

While designed to effortlessly incorporate a large amount of Adsense ads, AdsenseReady v1.2 allows you to have complete control over the amount of ads displayed and therefore is even suitable for bloggers who are not seeking to heavily monetize their blogs.

Here are some of the theme features, some of which are currently exclusive to AdsenseReady v1.2:

• Separate and Distinct Ad Blocks. The use of distinct theme files for ad codes allows for easy editing and insertion of Adsense units. These ad blocks can also be used to insert other types of advertisements as well and are not solely limited to Adsense use.

• Multiple Ad Display Options. Unlike other Adsense Ready themes, AdsenseReady V1.2 allows you to choose between either banner or rectangle ads for the single post page, thus allowing you more flexibility when it comes to ad blending.

• Hassle-free convenience and ease of use. You’ll only have to insert your Adsense code in the default ad units and you’re done. It should only take a minute or two to set up AdsenseReady V1.2 perfectly.

• Integrated Ad placement. Unlike most Adsense ready themes currently available, AdSenseReady V1.2 blends a 729 x 90 banner unit at the top  and after first post  on the blog homepage and link units near navigation area and near the comment section.Sidebar is really awesome for ads.You can place ads 300×250 near subscription box and 600×160 adsense unit under widgets on left sidebar.

• Compatible with WordPress 2.0+. AdsenseReady V1.2 has been tested with the latest WordPress 2.8.4 and no problems were experienced.

• Widget-Ready. If you’re a widget lover, you’ll be happy to know that AdsenseReady V1.2  allows you to easily install and use widgets to complement your content and advertising scheme.

• Free Lifetime Support:Support for the lifetime is available for AdsenseReady theme.

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