Blair Williams

Session: Supercharging Your Blog's Performance [WordPress Track, Advanced Level]

Did you know Google recently announced that one of its new top criteria for Search Engine ranking is site performance? Site performance is important to you and your users -- it can be a major factor in how you and your brand are perceived. In this presentation, I'll introduce some awesome tools you can use to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your blog. I'll also cover some techniques for choosing the right web host, rooting out your blog's performance bottlenecks and giving your blog that needed speed boost.

About Blair Williams

Blair Williams has been working as a Software Engineer, Internet Marketer and Technology Consultant for over a decade. He specializes in leveraging and writing Software to automate Internet Marketing to drive explosive growth and sales in Businesses of all sizes. He’s an expert in WordPress, Ruby on Rails, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing, Website Strategy and New Media. Blair is the author of several plugins for WordPress including Mingle -- an easy to setup social networking platform and Pretty Link -- a personal link shrinking and management plugin. Pretty Link & Mingle have been downloaded almost 200,000 times and are among the most popular plugins for WordPress. Blair has also released the Pretty Link Pro plugin for WordPress — providing a ton of useful features and premium support on top of Pretty Link.