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Install Google Analytics and add your sitemap to Google Search Console Analytics and Search Console do not by themselves help your blog SEO, but these are tools you ll use to make sure your site is indexing correctly and reaching people. Search  can use it to track your organic traffic, see which keywords you re ranking for, make note of which posts and pages bring the most traffic, and much more. You ll find a tutorial for adding Google Analytics here. And here s where you ll find a tutorial for adding your sitemap to Google Search Console. Optimize your images Images are one of the biggest culprits for slow websites. Images are imperative; they enhance a user s experience more about it down below . But a lot of bloggers don t realize that they need to optimize images before they upload them to their blogs.

Personally, I optimize images a lot even before I upload them I use a service like photo editing servies Canva or Photoshop to resize all images, depending on content width. So, for example, if your largest content width ideally on a desktop browser is px, I recommend uploading images that are somewhere between . . x this largest width. For our example, that d be images that are between and , px wide. Here s how to find out the largest content size Open your website on a desktop browser as that ll likely be the largest content width for most sites.



Make sure the browser is maximized taking up the entire screen of your computer. Right click anywhere on the page and then click Inspect. This will open up the inspection tool. Click the element selector. Shown below on a Chrome browser. Then click anywhere in the content area of your page or post to select that element. Your browser should now show the element size in the width x height format.