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[SOLVED] How Do I Reduce My iNode Usage On SiteGround, HostGator, Or Other Hosts?

SocMed Sean

SOLVED] How Do I Reduce My iNode Usage On SiteGround, HostGator, Or Other Hosts? If you are hosting your blog or website with Siteground, HostGator, or any other cPanel-based host and you have received a notification that your account is in jeopardy of exceeding your allocated inode usage, then this post is for you.

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Starting a Food & Drink Blog? Here Are Some Tips and Ideas!

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With food and drink encompassing such an important part of our daily lives, the impressive rise in popularity of “foodie” blogs should be no surprise. Along with this comes a wide variety of new opportunities to use food and drink blogs as an effective way to deliver online content to readers. What Is a Niche Food & Drink Blog?

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What does it take to start a career in professional blogging?

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One of these content-creating jobs is blogging. And blogging is big. Big enough to provide a legitimate career in professional blogging. More people than you realize are blogging today. Sports fans, stay-at-home moms, fitness enthusiasts, chefs, financial gurus, and many more enter the blogging world every day.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

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SocMedSean - Social.Media.Sean [Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog Before getting started, I know this is a really looooong post, and I apologize in advance. I hope this is an especially valuable post for anyone running a WordPress blog. Do good plugins really slow down my site?

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Three Words That Will Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

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And recent trends in social media are showing that sharing photos and images is a great way to make sure that your blog posts are getting traffic. Additionally, Google penalizes slow-loading websites and blogs by not ranking them as high as those that load quickly. In some cases, I saw a 20% reduction in the file size for each image.

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[SOLVED] WordPress Gives A HTTP Error When Uploading Images To The Media Gallery

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If you’ve been around my blog for long, you know I am a bit of a WordPress fanboy. It’s my favorite CMS and blogging platform, primarily because of the fact that the community of developers who make themes and plugins for WordPress are amazing. You are in the middle of writing a blog post. Here’s the situation.

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[ANSWERED] Using Lazy Load To Speed Up WordPress While Maintaining Pinterest Pinnable Images

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I, too, am always looking for ways to speed up my WordPress site and it happens that I have tried several different lazy load plugins, so I thought I would share those experiences in a blog post for those who might benefit from them. NOTE: If you are hosted on Siteground, I don’t recommend ditching the SG Optimizer plugin altogether.

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