Lucy Barret
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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Past articles by Lucy:
Ten reasons your SEO campaign isn’t working
If your SEO strategy is working well, you can expect to see results in about three months. Here are ten reasons why that might not be the case. → Read More
Google PageSpeed Insights tool: Tips to score 100/100
The Google PageSpeed Insights tool analyzes your site's front-end performance and offers optimization suggestions. Here are 8 tips for getting 100/100. → Read More
7 common SEO mistakes most WordPress bloggers make
What not to do: WordPress mistakes that can negatively affect your blog's SEO. → Read More
How to migrate web hosts without losing SEO
A step-by-step guide one how to choose your new hosting platform, create a backup, migrate your web host, and update DNS records without losing any SEO value. → Read More
How WordPress errors can negatively affect your SEO
An overview of the most common WordPress errors, what they are, and how they negatively affect SEO: 404 not found, 500 internal server, 502 bad gateway, 504 → Read More
Types of Google link penalties to avoid for your website
Review of the main types of Google Link penalties and how to avoid them when implementing new link strategies on your website. → Read More
How to safely change themes on your WordPress site
Changing a WordPress theme can be a trivial task, but it requires careful steps if you have a big website and don’t want to take risks. Lucy Barret explains. → Read More
How to minimize CPU usage in WordPress
We discuss seven tips do minimize CPU usage in Wordpress → Read More
Factors that influence your website’s credibility
Your online website is the digital portrayal of your business so it's important to investigate the factors that give it credibility. → Read More
Is WordPress a good choice for SEO?
Is WordPress a good choice for accomplishing the SEO goals you've been trying to achieve? → Read More
How to select the best caching solution for WordPress
Lucy Barret reviews why caching can cure your page loading speed problems and reviews the best WordPress plugins → Read More
How to migrate your WordPress website domain name
There are many instances where a website might be required to change its domain name. For example, your website might be penalized heavily by Google, and you → Read More
How to drive more traffic to your WordPress blog
Driving traffic to a blog has never been easy, and there's no magic bullet to achieve it. However, taking certain steps can significantly increase your chances → Read More
15 Great Content Marketing Tools for Your WordPress
Content Marketing Tools to Help You in WordPress site. Find out what tools to use to create value with content, collaborate efficiently, and easy sharing → Read More
Should I move my WordPress website to HTTPS?
Website visitors demand secure connections to the websites they are interacting with. HTTPS is an industry best practice, a ranking signal on Google and → Read More
The 10 most common WordPress SEO challenges and how to solve them
If you're new to the business of SEO and are just figuring out how to optimize your WordPress site for search, navigating the landscape of SEO can seem like a → Read More
A guide to setting up Google Analytics for your WordPress site
If you are an enthusiast who is setting up a website or a new blog using WordPress as your CMS, it is highly recommended to set up Google Analytics. This guide → Read More
The SEO benefits of using WordPress to publish your content
Creating and launching a fully-fledged website is not enough to get your brand noticed by itself. In order to improve your online visibility, you will need to carry out SEO (search engine optimization) practices. If you want to achieve a higher ranking on Google and other search engines, you’ll need to get serious about search engine optimization. Luckily, if you use WordPress as your Content… → Read More
10 ways to promote your WordPress blog for beginners
If you've just started off your WordPress blog and want everybody to read your content, then you should promote your blogs on multiple online platforms. → Read More
Handy Tips for Improving Web UX for Better Conversion Rates
The UX community spent much of last year talking about error pages, reducing the form lengths, optimizing performance, etc. All valid points to improve user experience, yes, but is that all? Of course not. This year, let’s take a look at how to really optimize web content and web design for a better user experience and consequently, conversion rates. 1. Making Content Talk Just because we are a… → Read More