How I doubled my traffic

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almanula

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This is my experience I hope it might help someone out there. Each website is different but for me this worked.

1. I added an SSL certificate to the blog
2. Moved from Apache to Nginx, this really improved my speed.
3. Implemented HTTP/2 protocol and the site was now loading under 4 Seconds
4. Linked to CloudFlare, they enabled me to do Server Push
5. Added Google AMP

All these I did in 3 days and after 2 weeks my traffic went from 3,000 to 7000 pageviews in a day. Bounch rate went down and earnings increased.

I read everything online and implemented.
 

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almanula said:
This is my experience I hope it might help someone out there. Each website is different but for me this worked.

1. I added an SSL certificate to the blog
2. Moved from Apache to Nginx, this really improved my speed.
3. Implemented HTTP/2 protocol and the site was now loading under 4 Seconds
4. Linked to CloudFlare, they enabled me to do Server Push
5. Added Google AMP

All these I did in 3 days and after 2 weeks my traffic went from 3,000 to 7000 pageviews in a day. Bounch rate went down and earnings increased.

I read everything online and implemented.
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Significant results! A couple of question if you don't mind:

1. Did you use a free SSL provider ?
4. What's the benefit of Server Push ? It's also for improving the site load time ?
 
seooo said:
Significant results! A couple of question if you don't mind:

1. Did you use a free SSL provider ?
4. What's the benefit of Server Push ? It's also for improving the site load time ?
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1. I use Letsencrypt it is free
2. Server Push to improve speed

I am now thinking the hurdle was site speed for me.
 
Nice :D
Step 2-5 is all about page speed. For me the most important ranking factor on-page!
 
amog45 said:
Nice :D
Step 2-5 is all about page speed. For me the most important ranking factor on-page!
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Especially if you are ranking already, speed will give you a huge boost.
 
I am currently using DigitalOcean for hosting my sites.

What hosting do you recommend for this?
 
Nginx needs lesser RAM than apache so it is better any day. The problem with it though is the rewrite rules.. as I don't think we can run .htaccess in there can we?
 
I guess AMP is helping, I saw some other post mentioning that they added AMP and there was a rise in traffic.
 
Would like to add AMP aswell to my website, however im not sure if i use the 'AMP for WordPress' plugin or is there a different way?
 
almanula said:
1. I use Letsencrypt it is free
2. Server Push to improve speed
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But if you've moved to https (happened by installing+setting up SSL certificate), then why do you need http/2 + Server Push at all if they aren't being used?
Cloudflare doesn't even access your server on http/2, they do it on a simple http instead

Or are you using shared hosting and thus couldn't enable full/strict SSL in Cloudflare and didn't enable "Always Use HTTPS" in Cloudflare and thus don't redirect http visitors to https automatically?
 
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