Clean Up Your WordPress Site by Ryan Guina

WordPress Behind the Scenes:
Maintaining Your Site for Better Performance, SEO, and Usability
Audience: Beginner to Advanced Bloggers
Tech Skills Required: Beginner to Intermediate
Ryan Guina – CashMoneyLife.com
– TheMilitaryWallet.com

Your Blog is Broken
Cluttered & inefficient database
Too many plugins
Broken links
And you are linking to…
PORN!!!
(and other bad neighborhoods)

Clean Up WordPress to Improve
User Experience
Efficiency
Search Engine Optimization

How to Optimize Your WP Database
Eliminate excess plugins
Clean database
Optimize/repair database
Required skills:
Know how to backup/restore database

Backup and Upload WP Database
Backups are essential any time you change DB
Know how to upload/install DB backup
Schedule automatic backups
Perform backup w/ new changes

Eliminate Excess Plugins
Plugins increase overhead
Plugins decrease efficiency
Create new tables in database

Drop Unnecessary DB Tables
Many plugins create tables when activated
Don’t always delete tables when removed
These cause DB bloat

Plugins Garbage Collector
Plugins Garbage Collector plugin identifies:
Core WP tables
Tables associated w/ active plugins
Tables from inactive/deleted plugins

Dropping WP Database Tables
Identify which tables to drop
Don’t recognize table name? Google it
STOP! Backup database
Delete non-essential tables

Post Revisions = Database Killer
Great feature
Limit # of revisions or turn off feature
Stop! Backup database
Delete old revisions
Delete-Revision plugin
MySQL magic

Optimize & Repair Database
Just like defragging hard drive on Windows
Reduces overhead, improves efficiency
STOP! Backup DB
WP-DBManagerplugin
Optimize
Repair

Broken Links & Bad Neighborhoods
Broken link doesn’t resolve – Ex: 404 error
Bad neighborhoods:
Porn, gambling, pharmaceuticals, malware, parked domains, get rich quick, MFA, etc.
Redirect links
Expired domains redirected to bad neighborhoods for traffic/SEO

Broken Links & Redirects
Broken links
Bad user experience
Bad for sales and conversions
Bad for SEO
Redirects and links to Bad Sectors
Bad for user experience, reputation, SEO
A link from your site is a vote!

Finding Broken Links & Redirects
Broken Link Checker – WP plugin
Run in background, receive updates
Run periodically
Can be resource hog (do initial run at night)
Xenu Link Sleuth – desktop for Windows
(can run on other OS with emulators)

Removing Broken Links & Redirects
Broken links
Remove or repair broken links
Redirects
Manual process
Click and follow, then decide on action
Time consuming, but worth it

Clean DB Essential for Blog Health
The cleaner your database, the more efficiently it performs
Better for site speed/performance
Better for user experience
Better for SEO

Clean Up Your Links
Removing broken links & bad redirects
Improves User Experience
Increases Conversions
Improves On-site SEO

Resources
WP-DBManager: Backup, Optimize/Repair DB
http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/
Plugins Garbage Collector:
http://www.shinephp.com/plugins-garbage-collector-wordpress-plugin/
Broken Link Checker:
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/
Xenu link sleuth:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Questions?

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