I am a fan of the CentminMod auto installer. This script auto-installs Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, NSD (DNS server) and several other necessities. Also, the author (eva2000) is a very helpful person and answers most questions promptly at WHT. The Centmin Mod script works well and uses very less RAM. This comes very handy at times
Category: Optimizing Site
How To Track Visitors Coming To Your Site
When visitors come to your site, you want to know (i) what search term or link they came from; (ii) which Country they came from; (iii) did they browse any other pages, (iv) how long did they stay on the site. This information is very valuable. If people are repeatedly coming to your site in
Why Email Subscription Option Is Important
Most visitors to your site land up because they found your site on google or they clicked a link you placed somewhere. They come, they see, they leave and they forget about your site. If the post they came in for interested them, there is a good chance that they would be interested in other
WordPress Nginx Cache Plugin
If you are running WordPress on apache, you have no problem because all the well-known cache plugins like Quick Cache, WP Super Cache & W3 Total Cache work very well. However, if you are running WordPress on nginx, then you have a problem because with the different rewrite rules that Nginx has, the cache plugins
Quick Cache & Nginx
Quick Cache is one of my favourite WordPress cache plugins because it works very well without requiring any configuration and delivers a noticeable quickness with which the web pages are delivered. You can check whether Quick Cache is working by seeing the “source” of the page. At the bottom, you will see This Quick Cache
How to optimize and speed up your site
Increasing the speed with which a page loads involves aspects (i) the server configuration and (ii) the web pages (or wordpress) configuration. First, lets look at how we can speed up the time that it takes for the server to respond. (i) Using nginx instead of apache: My personal experience has been that nginx responds
Why keyword stuffing should be avoided
In trying to understand how google ranks a page in its search results, I learnt that keywords were important. Google determines the relevance of a page based on the density of the keywords and ranks it accordingly. So, a page which has more occurrences of ‘Nikon D2’ will be deemed to be a page on