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Blog load time is a problem to some bloggers and is important for SEO. But relatively new bloggers don't have the idea or the knowledge to maximize their blog load time. So here are some factors to consider and to be implemented to make your blog load time more faster.

Blogging nowadays is getting tough. As it is said, you can't make your blog successful overnight. A lot of factors are to be considered to achieve and have a successful blog. One of the known and very important is SEO.

Optimizing a blog for Search Engines isn't that simple. You have to put in mind that many things matter to SEO. The nature of the content is very important and how it is constructed. But most bloggers are having a hard time when it comes to their blog load time. If you didn't notice, some of the blogs in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page), even in the 1st page are loading too slow that it annoys blog visitors. This sometimes means that even if you have the right content and everything in it to make it on the 1st page of SERP, it is not sure that visitors will read your content because they will close it finding that your blog loads very slowly.

There are really a lot of factors to consider in making your blog load faster. Some will hire a web developer or an SEO expert to optimize their blog but it will cost you a hundred dollar or more. But for blogger with has no budget for hiring an expert, you can just consider some factors that will make your blog load faster. This is very useful for new bloggers and for those that are not knowledgeable about SEO.


Consider These Factors In Making Blog Load Time Faster

Unnecessary gadget - you have to remember that a gadget contributes a lot in the blog load time. The more gadgets you have installed in your blog, the slower your blog load time. Try finding a fast loading free hosted blog for example and see the gadgets installed in that blog, I bet there's only one to three gadgets installed in there and compare it to a slow loading blog. You will surely say that gadgets really contributes on blog load time.

Number of blog post on homepage - as a blog load, it first show you the blog homepage where you can see the published content on that certain blog. By default you can manage to show how any blog post you want to show in the homepage but another thing to remember that it also contribute on the blog load time. The more post you have in your homepage the slower the load time of the blog. You should limit the post shown in your blog homepage with at least one and a maximum of ten.

Compressing the template styling or the CSS - the CSS file of your blog template has a size and you know how size matter when it comes to computers. So compressing it will help a little in making your blog load time faster.

Blog advertising - monetizing a blog is one of the reason for a person to start a blog aside from writing and want to be heard. But if this also contribute to the blog load time. Some advertising networks advertisement loads very slow thus making your blog load tie also slow. So better find and choose an ad network that suits your blog and does not make it load slow.

The above mention factors are just some of the most considered factors in making blog load time faster.

Originally published at Knoji.