Speed of a web page is now an important factor for getting better search position in Google.com results. Getting higher speeds is usually impossible for WordPress blogs on a shared web hosting account if there are a lot of static images, files, plugins and streaming media hosted on the server,  and if thousand of people are accessing them at the same time. The concept of CDN is very simple.  A CDN takes copies of CSS,  images, JavaScript, video-audio streams of the blog  in different network locations worldwide and sends it to the users near to that location.  So ultimately, the shared web hosting server handles only the database queries and loading HTML and other important files. Thus the overall experience of the user and the health of the server improves by making use of the CDN network. Recently, we purchased a MAXCDN account to use it with Techknowl.com and a few other WordPress blogs in our network. MAXCDN works perfectly in combination with W3 Total Cache Plugin for WordPress.  Here in this article we will tell how can add a CDN in WordPress blog with MAXCDN step-by step.

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Recently, we upgraded techknowl to use it with MAXCDN content delivery network. The MAXCDN service has complete compatibility with WordPress and is one of the cheapest CDN available for bloggers. The addition of a CDN to wordpress is pretty much simple. However, it’s simpler with a plugin called W3 total Cache. Apart from the easy CDN integration, W3 total cache includes several features that will improve the speed and response of a WordPress blog. Earlier we were using WP Super Cache plugin -along with a combination of a few other plugins for our caching requirements. Now we have uninstalled all those plugins and migrated to W3 total cache plugin and MAXCDN service.

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Feed is the popular way of accessing content from regularly  updating websites and blogs. Bloggers get a bunch of returning visitors an alternative income channel by producing their content via feed readers and email subscriptions. Google Adsense ™ allows web publishers to place ads in feeds burned with Feedburner service. However, sometimes providing email subscription  can affect your search engine rankings and income. Content scrappers use the full feed of the site to build new auto posting blogs. Furthermore, the feed readers won’t be much interested in visiting the site if they are provided with full email feed. So providing only the summary of blog article is the best method to prevent these practices. Here in this post I will show how you can enable this feature in Blogger and WordPress platforms.

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WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms. Nowadays, People are moving to WordPress due to its user friendliness, advanced themes, plugins and options for customization. The problem associated with WordPress is that it needs a web hosting account. However, opening a hosting account is a costly investment for new bloggers. There are free WordPress hosting services like 000webhost, that lets you to install WordPress on any domain. What you need is a 9 $ domain, and the rest is free. There is no advertising and you have complete control over your space. So if you are in Blogger and planning to move to WordPress, you can take a look at 000webhost. Here we will explain how to install WordPress on 000webhost free hosting.

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If you are using WordPress themes created by others, it is essential that you maintain the credit link. However, there are some cases where the creator links to some health or gambling sites to the WordPress theme footer. These links would affect the search engine rankings of the linking blog. Credit links on the WordPress theme footer are usually encrypted and normal users will not be able to remove those unwanted links. So here I am dealing with a very simple 5-minute method to remove credit links from WordPress footer.

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Twitter has become one of the major sources of blog traffic. Now many sites are counting the number of Twitter subscribers for the valuation of a blog/website The best part of Twitter is that the number of Addons, software, online services and widgets that makes it possible to access it anywhere, anytime. If you are WordPress Blogger and Twitter fan, Here is a wonderful WordPress Twitter widget that can be embedded into your blog.
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