5 Ways To Make Blog Better : Non SEO Techniques

These day crowd in blogging is increasing and getting traffic is also very tough. Many bloggers are struggling for a long time because improper techniques and ideas. If you want to make some reputation in blogging then you should have to understand your audience first and then you will have to make necessary adjustments to your blog like design, posting schedule and other things. Here we are going to follow some of the best techniques which will enhance your blog and user interaction(comments, pageviews, etc. ) too. So let’s check them out one by one:-

Improve Design Of Your Blog

1. Make It Look and Work Better

It is big truth that design attracts visitors but it is not followed everywhere. You might have heard that don’t look its beauty, see for its quality. But if you make both perfect then you rock. make your blog design simple and readable. Some tips to improve your design are:-

• Make texts visible clearly.
• Use Google fonts for texts.
• Don’t place too much advertisement in your design, they may ruin your blog.

2. Make it Mobile Friendly

Mobile friendly sites get more visitors because majority of people uses cell phones to browse through their favourite sites. There are 68% mobile user in the web and you can not ignore them. Choosing a responsive theme for your blog can solve your problem of mobile users. Responsive designs looks great in mobile devices too, so you don’t have to care about user experience. So after choosing a responsive theme you are ready to welcome mobile users.

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Improve Readability Of Your Blog

1. Quality Content:-

“Quality Content Is King” as always it actually works till date. Major Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing also give priority to quality content’s blog. After PageRank, it is the only major thing which helps search engines to rank your site on SERP’s. So don’t ever compromise with content of your blog.

2. Long and Descriptive Posts

Long posts are ideal to reduce bounce rate and to increase interaction of blog with audience. Any person searching for a specific thing, expects full descriptive and detailed information from the website they are going to click. And if you satisfied them then you can expect that visitor to come back again. It’s all about user satisfaction and if you fails then you loose.

3. Give Priority To Tutorials

Tutorials and How To posts are best for a new blog because these type of posts can rank very high in search engines and a single post can improve your blog’s traffic. Moreover Tutorials solve problems of individual very smartly so you could get some subscribers also. I have heard many times that one post is making 100’s of dollars through AdSense.

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Using Images Correctly

Images speaks thousand words and are also looks great but only if you have a appropriate image for your post. Unrelated images looks worthless and also eats space of one good image. Well you can  grab free images from free photo sharing sites like “freedigitalphotos.net”. On other hand using a strong keyword rich Alt and Title tag is also important if you are hungry for search traffic(like everyone). There are few tips which i would like to cover is:-

• Use of Alt tag is very Important.
• Insert the best keyword in Alt and Title Tags
• Avoid Copyrighted Images.

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Use Video To Describe Well

Videos woks great if your post is any Tutorial or How To. And for many others too but these two are the most important one and if you are writing a tutorial then try to embed a video at last of the post with every step explained. You can use screen capture tools to make our own tutorials and use Youtube, Viemo to host your videos. But also keep in mind  that videos can increase your page loading time and it is not at all good. A fast loading website is always appreciated. So it is recommended to insert video only on that post where it is required mostly.

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Use Social Media

Social media are the easiest way to drive referral traffic to your blog and is in use by thousands of reputed bloggers. As there are countless no. of social networking sites, you can use even hundreds of them but you will not get enough time to manage all your profiles. So i am listing here the top three social sites which can drive your thousands of visitors daily.

1. Facebook :- Well reputed and also have huge no. of users. So it is more easier for you if you will share your posts here. You should make a friend circle of bloggers first and then share links on your profile. Here are some bonus tips:-

• Share On Your Wall
• Share Of Your Page.
• Share On Related Groups.
• Ask friends and Audience to share your links.

2. Twitter :- Twitter can also boost your traffic only if you have a decent no of followers on twitter, which is hard to get. But you can put some share buttons below post to solve your sharing problems.

3. Google + :- Google’s social networking site and very important for blogger.  Your shared post can easily get Google's attention and could rank high also. It is used by most bloggers so if you want an organic boost then you should try sharing n Google+. Here are some Tips:-

• Post on Your Page
• Share on your profile
• Add +1 Button below posts.

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I thinks these are quite enough to make a blog stand well in blogosphere. Make sure you are subscribed to our newsletter. Do must share your thoughts and views with us.

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Heading(H1,H2,…,H6) Tags For SEO

Heading tags are important part of a webpage because it categorize the content into different sections. But using it properly is quite important because it also plays an important role in SEO of any blog. For example:- Google recently announced to use only one H1 tag in one page. It means we are in great trouble if we are using heading tags in improper ways. So here i am going to suggest you some tips which you will have to keep in mind while writing your next blog post.

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Advantages Of Using Heading Tags

Heading Tags not only increases the readability of your article but also supports your blog’s SEO. Most of the search engines are very concern about heading Tags and Keywords inside them. It is  good practice to use Heading Tags to categories different section of your post.

Good Place For Keywords

Heading Tags are marked as one of the best place to use your strong keywords moreover you can also use long tail keywords which increases the chances to get indexed in the 1st page of search result page. It is also recommended to use appropriate keyword in the heading tags because you can not insert too many keywords in headings.

Use H1 Only Once

As per Google’s Latest update “Panda”, they announced to use H1 tag one in every page. Means You can not use H1 tag more that one time in a web page. You may not use H1 tag but it is very good for SEO if you are using this only once in a page. H1 is also recommended for top-level heading.

Increases you readability and User Experience

H2,H3 and all others can increase the readability of your blog because they look much prettier and make post easy to read because it divides post in different sections.

More Tips:-

* You can use as many H2,H3,…H6 tags depending on the size of your post.

* Google focuses on Heading tags in Page Snippet.

* You can decorate heading tags as per your requirements.

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How To Make Your URLs SEO Friendly

Earlier i have posted two posts in SE Optimization Series which was about Optimizing Title Tags and Using Meta Description to Attract Organic Traffic. But today i am here with some best techniques which should be used in making your blog’s URLs Search Engine Friendly. Many peoples thinks that URL doesn't plays any role in overall SEO of a website/blog and they are totally wrong. URLs are shown in search results and majority of visitors decide which link they have to click by just looking into URL and description of the link. Mostly webmasters also follow this rule because they already know that which website is going to satisfy their needs. So making your URLs SE friendly is as important as posting articles to your blog.

I will recommend you to first read these two articles because these articles will tell you the basics of SEO and will let you take care of your blog.

1. Optimize Title For Better Indexing and Rankings
2. Use Meta Description To Attract Organic Traffic

After reading these two post, you are now ready to go step one more step in SEO ladder. So carefully read the below mentioned tips and techniques and apply them to your blog and you will definitely reach your goal shortly.

Shorter Is Better

You must have heard this because this is the very common technique and it also work till date. Because of the shorter length of your URL, it will be fully visible in search result and  will increase the click through rate of your blog. Short length URLs are easier to copy and paste in E-mails, Tweets and other shares. On other hand you could also use a long descriptive URL but it is mostly possible that people will not click the URL because they can’t read the whole URL.

Make It Shorter and Readable Also

Making your link only Shorter will not help you but also make it readable to others. If your url will shorter and readable then the chances of click will be increased. Below is a example of shorter but unreadable URL.

Use Keywords In Limit

I have already discussed a lot about keywords and their impact on Search Engine Optimization. In one hand it is very important to do but on other hand , overuse of keyword will kill your blog for ever. Using Google Adword’s Keyword Planner is best because it provides the exact and accurate result. It is recommended to use a strong keyword in the URL of your post. You can also use a long tail keyword but make sure that your URL not stretch too much. If your page contains some specific terms then don’t forget to mention that in your URL.

Make Your URL Static

Static URL means your URL should not use too much symbols and make it easily readable. Using lot of “?”, “123” and other symbols will make your URL harder to read. You can use “/” for distinguishing labels or  directory and “_”(Underscores) to separate words in your URL, they seems similar like a blank space.

Avoid 404

404 is a not found error. It generally occurs when you removed a content and visitor somewhere found you link and clicked on it. 404 error also harms your Search Rankings but using Google Webmaster Tools you can short out all your 404 error. You can use 301 redirection to overcome this 404 Not Found Error Penalty.

Use 301 Redirection

301 Redirection is a permanent which passes approx. 99% of ranking power to the redirected page. It is the best method to redirect your visitors form old blog to new blog. It not only sends visitors but also gives the ranking of your old page to the new redirected page.


After tweaking your post’s URL will all above methods will make your blog grab more traffic from Search Engine and Social Media.

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Optimize Title Tags To Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendly

Search engine’s algorithms are changing day by day and its your responsibility to be updated with them to keep your blog/website scoring in search result page. Title is the most important thing of any webpage because it tells the search engine, what your page contains. Title of any page should be accurate, to the point and concise this will make you page looks more professional and also it will attract search engine bots. All of us know that title of any page is kept in between <title> and </title> tag. But today i am here with some of the useful techniques by which you can make your title tag more pretty to be crawled. So let’s check them out one by one:-

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1. Maintain Title Length Limit

5 characters -- 70 characters

Title Length Limit is very essential to keep in mind while writing article because if you will cross the limit of 70 characters, you rest of title will converted into “…” . You Must have seen while searching around web that some of the results contains “…” at the end of the title in blue colour.
Demerits of keeping title longer than 70 character
There is no penalty on keeping title length more than 70 character, You will not loose anything by keeping your title length more than 70. Just your rest of the title will not appear in search result page and hence if you have any keyword in the last portion of title then it will not be counted.
What is safe title length
Safe title length is between 5 to 70 character because if you will insert any keyword in between these title length then it can make you appear on SERP(Search Engine Result Page).

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2. Page Title First Then Blog Title

As mentioned above, Title plays a major role in SEO. Thus using it properly can directly affect your overall SEO. We are talking about Page Title and Site Title.Site/Blog Title will remain same in all condition so there is no means of placing blog title first. Placing Page Title first will weight more than the Site Title first. For Example if you have a post Namely “This Is An Example Post Title” and your blog title is “Test Blog Title” then if you are using your blog title at first position and post title at second position then it will look something like this “Test Blog Title | This Is An Example Post Title”. And let me tell you one thing that no one will search with your blog name. Therefore you should use Post Title First to improve your SEO.

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3. Use Keyword With High Search And Low Competition In Title

Using keyword is as important as breathing. Like you can not survive without breathing, Your blog can not survive in search engine without Keywords. There are many tools which can be sued in keyword research like Google AdWords, LongTailPro and many others. As keywords are very effective and important also but still you will need to use it very carefully because if you will insert too much keywords in your title and article also then you’re going to be slapped by Google.
There are few strategies which will make you feel bolder in using keywords. Here they are:-

1. Using most strong keyword as the first word of your title will skyrocket your possibilities to come in 1st page of SERP.
2. You have only 70 characters for title so use most strong keyword.
3. Avoid Keyword Stuffing in titles, as it disobeys Google policies. 

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4. Avoid Using Stop Words In Title

“The”, ”A”, ”Can” are some example of stop words which you should stop using in your page title. Because as i expressed above that title should not exceed 70 character and stop words it eat up the space where you can place a keywords. These adjectives are not counted as keywords by any search engine on web. Using too much these stop words will don’t let you go high. My recommendation is to use these stop words only where they are mostly required. Here i am giving an example, how you can remove stop words from page title.

With Stop Words:

Lumia 535: A New Phone At Great Price By Microsoft

Without Stop Words:

Microsoft Launches Nokia Lumia 535 : Low Price

Here i tried to remove stop words only. Don’t remember is it exactly Lumia 535. BTW this is how you can try to minimize the use of stop words.

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5. Keep It Simple, Unique and Short

Keeping title simple and unique will attract creative minds to read your article and will also increase your conversion rate. A short but to the point title can gives you high no of traffic through search engine and let you be visible in SERP.

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6. Avoid Keyword Spamming

Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engine strictly hates spamming and spammers too. They also don’t want the rules violators to be in their market. So if you are thing that using too many keywords everywhere will make you earn some bucks then you are mistaken. Google even said that they can close your account any time they found you disobeying their rules. They can kill your blog within some days. They also have rights to seize your AdSense earnings and delete your AdSense account.

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Complete Search Engine Optimization Series For Blogs and Websites

SEO is a big headache for bloggers and solely of bad SEO many bloggers fails to reach the success. You mush have read my post “Why bloggers quit blogging”, in which i have explained all the possible reasons which make a blogger quit blogging and also some brief solution of those problems. But today i am here with a completely new series of post which is about SE Optimization of blogs. This series will be very effective for those who are completely new to blogging or those who are working hard but didn’t get any result.

What's Special In This Post ?

In this post i am going to cover each and every aspect of SEO from beginning. As SEO is endless therefore i will try to share my best to you. In this series, every post will be well explained, i will also present some graphical representation which will help you to understand Search Engine more better than ever. These posts will solve all your problems about Search Engine and its optimization.

We will go through only the best genuine (White Hat) way to attain good position in Search Engine because black hat methods can not survive for long.

What You Will Get In This Series Of Posts ?

You will get all the detailed information, tricks and essential tips to optimize your blog to make your blog perform better than ever. In this post we will learn many things but i would like to represent few of them to you. The post Series will content:-

1. Optimize Title Tags To Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendly
   
2. How To Use Meta Description Effectively To Gain Organic Traffic
3. How To Make Your URLs SEO Friendly
4. Use Proper H1,H2 ... H6 Tags For SEO
5. Using Canonical URL Tag.
6. Appropriate Content Length.
7. How Search Engine Works For Webmasters.
8. Using SEO Friendly Design For Your Blog.
9. Effective Keyword Research Using Free Tools.
10. How To Use Keywords Safely in Article.
11. Using H1 tags safely, otherwise loose your blog.
12. Where to use “dofollow” and “nofollow” in your blog.
13. Using Images in your content.
14. More About Sitemaps and their Optimization.

more will be added soon.

Don’t miss any article in this series

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5 Best Blogging Apps For Android Phones

After reading many posts of this blog, you must be aware that blogging is not a joke. It needs a high level of commitment and dedication. Beside of this you will also have to take SEO along with your blogging journey. The most important thing which makes blog popular in short span of time is posting frequency.Posting frequency means “How many posts you are posting Daily/Weekly/Monthly”. You should maintain your maintain your posting frequency and for this you will need your PC. But what if you are Unable to access your PC or Out of Town or On Vacation etc. If you are unable to post something to your blog on your posting frequency then you could loose your ranking and some loyal visitors also. Therefore it is mostly recommended to post on a regular interval. Here Blogging Mobile Apps can help you. Blogging Mobile Apps are great if you are travelling, on vacations or anything else. These apps are free to download and use and are user-friendly. There are many features of these mobile apps and we are going to unfold all the details of these mobile apps.

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Blogging Mobile Apps

1. Blogger
Blogger is famous blogging platform owned by Google Inc. This app let you publish apps on the go, edit previously published posts, add images to posts, add labels to post and many other. This app is very small and supported in all type of Android OS. Additionally this app can manage all your blog in same dashboard. This app is easy to use and small in size. Install this app from Google Play Store.
 
2. WordPress
Wordpress for Android is a powerful app to manage your wordpress blog on the go. This app is developed by wordpress developer and equipied with many good features like Creating a new post, editing old posts, adding images, viewing stats ( if jetpack plugin installed ) and many more. You will feel like you are working on your PC. Download Wordpress For Android Here.
 
3. Google Analytics
Google Analytics app is a must have app for every blogger because it offers a very neat Interface. There are almost all features in this app as compared to desktop. This app is very small and consumes less memory in its working mode. You can track Online visitors, country, pageviews, Unique Visitors and many more. Give Google Analytics Android App a try, Download it here.

4. Feedly
After Goolge Reader Shut Down, Feedly became the most popular feed reader. This app let you follow all your favourite blogs and keep all them in one place. It means you can noe read all the articles from different blogs without opening your browser. This app is very ideal to get unique ideas about contents. Download It Here.
 
5. Buffer
Buffer is a cool app which helps you to post your content into different social networking sites. It can post to Facebook, Google +, LinkedIn and many others. You can also schedule the posting task on a specific time and this app will do your work. This app is very ideal for sharing and managing your blog. Download It Now.

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These are some of the Blogging Apps For Android Phones which can enhance your blogging journey. These apps can be downloaded from Google Play Store.

IMAGES SOURCE: Google Images

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How to Create Free Logo for Your Blog

If you are planning to start a website/blog or already started one then the thing you must need for good exposure is a Professional Looking Logo. Logos are the first impression of your site which can leave a good impact on the mind of visitors. It is good practice to create a Simple, Clean and Quality Rich logo because a visitor first see the logo and if he likes your content then he/she must remember your site URL and Logo. Many website uses a logo in which URL of the site is written and that is good enough to make the visitor learn your website/blog URL easily at one sight. But not everyone have so much skills on Photoshop or other image editing software and also there are thousands Professional logo designing consultant who can create a logo for you but their price are very high, so we are introducing you to some free online Logo Generators. Now we will go through some of the best websites which can make a free and attractive logo for you.
NOTE: - Premium service is completely different from free one, so don’t expect premium treatment with free logo generators. If you are unsatisfied with free tools then you can contact a Graphic Designer or choose a Premium Logo Generating Service.

Free Online Logo Generators

These logo generators are free to use for personal use and if you want to use this logo for your business or company website then you will have to buy the Premium License.
Recommended to Install Flash Player on your computer.

FlamingText.com

FlamingText is a great website to create free professional looking Logos and Names in just couple of minutes. They have a large database of fonts and designs, you can choose your desired font and go ahead with it. FlamingText can also generate animated logos in .gif format for free. You can use any logos for free if you are going to use this for a personal blog or website. You will have to buy logo for Business Use. Let me tell you that their Free and Paid Service is not same, they have a different website LogoNut.com for paid users and it also contains a strong logo builder or editor along with this you will also have an option to choose a suitable image for your logo. So, if you are looking for a free Logo or Name generator then FlamingText can help you. Click here to go to FlamingText.com

LogoEase.com

LogoEase.com is a great logo generating service which let you customize your logo at its best. You can create logo in just 2 minutes. LogoEase is very reputed in free logo generation because of its easy to use panel and wide range of customization and beside of all that it doesn’t have any copyright issues. It means you can use logo wherever you want. They also provide a software which you can download which will save your priceless time. Just download it and use it whenever needed. You don’t have to pay even a single penny for this. Click here to go to LogoEase.com

LogoGarden.com

LogoGarden is another free service which allows to create stunning logo free for you websites. First of all, you will need Flash Player installed in your pc to create logo on LogoGarden. Just like all others, they also offers DIY (Do it yourself) tool for logo. They have made their interface as clean as they can which helps us to understand and create logos more effectively. With this service you not only can generate name logo, but you can also insert images in your logos. There are hundreds of unique, meaningful and clean images for every purposes. You should give it a Try. Click here to go to LogoGarden.com.

I think three logo generators are good enough to create your desired free logo. So, just go and start creating your own logo for free.

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You Should Use Both XML and RSS Sitemaps for Best Result - Google

We already discussed about what sitemaps are and how to use this with Google Webmaster Tools. Sitemaps are very important for every site which wants to be crawled by search engine. They enables crawlers to discover all your pages and index them every time when they change. Suppose if you have submitted a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools and when next time you will update your content Google will automatically notice that you have published something and they will crawl your new pages as soon as possible.
There are many types of sitemap available like XML, RSS or Atom. But Recently Google announces that you should use both XML and RSS/Atom Sitemaps for best result in search engine crawling and indexing.

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Why Use XML Sitemaps?

XML Sitemaps are usually very large as compared to RSS/Atom Sitemaps but there are many benefits of using XML sitemaps like they provide whole set of URL which makes crawling easy.

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Why Use RSS/Atom Sitemaps?

RSS/Atom sitemaps are in fashion now. Most of the blogs are using RSS/Atom sitemap because it is small in size, crawled more frequently than XML Sitemaps and contains most recent updates only.
You can read Full Article at Google Webmaster Central Official Blog.

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4 Effective Tips to Decrease Page Loading Time of Your Blog

If you are a thoughtful blogger then you must know the importance of fast loading website. A fast loading website is given priority by both Search Engine and Visitors. Nobody likes to visit a slow website even if it had a valuable content. It means that writing quality article is not the only thing you have to do, you will also have to improve the SEO, Page Loading Time and other things of your site if you want to go high.
Today I am going to share some of the tips which can reduce your page loading time. Do you know that more than 75% of websites load in less than 2-3 seconds? So think of yourself, how much you will have to work with your site to keep it on this category of 75% sites. There are few sites which can help to to check your page loading time like Pingdom Website Speed Tool and Google Page speed Insight. Here is my page speed test with Pingdom.

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1. Minimize the No of Posts on Homepage

Homepage is the page where your page loading time is maximum because it shows many posts and images in the same page. So if you successfully reduce the loading time on home page then you are half-done. Don’t Panic we have the right solution. No matter which CMS you are using, decreasing no. of posts on home page can help you to reduce your page loading speed by 30%-50% of your overall time. Try to keep 4 to 5 posts only on homepage because if visitor will see the same thing for a long time then he or she may irritate. So keeping the no. of posts minimum on your homepage can help you to perform faster.
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2. Use Compressed Images

Compressed images are ideal for websites, even majority of people use compressed images with their blog. Using compressed images is good practice to shrink the page loading time. Compressed images are also of enough quality that can seen clearly and also of small size which makes it load faster than non-compressed images. There is no means of using a 1024x768 or higher resolution of images (around 150kb – 300kb) because you only have to show your readers a dimension of 600x400 or lesser(around 30kb to 50kb). So you can think yourself how compressed images can help you. Compressnow.com and imageoptimizer.net are some online Image Compressors. You can also use Photoshop.
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3. Use Compressed JavaScript and CSS

Compressed JS and CSS are optional because they do not take as much time. But if you want to run you blog at its top speed then you should work with your JS and CSS. Once I was coding then I accidently saw a compress button in my HTLM Editor and when I clicked there I saw that my CSS files are compressed by 303%. I was shocked. So using compressed JS and CSS is not a bad idea. Hence you will feel difficulties in editing your theme again because compressed codes are hard to read. But you can also decompress them for edit you code. There are many Online Compressor which can help you like refresh-sf.com and minify.avivo.si
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4. Avoid using External JavaScript and CSS

External JS and CSS are very bad because they generate multiple server request to load and it can take some fraction of seconds. The other worst thing about External JS and CSS is that you have no control over them and the designer of the theme can change JavaScript and can do anything with you site like they can redirect your site visitors to their site, change layout of your site, change colour and can do many other things with your site. So always avoid to use external JS and CSS.

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