10 great ways to optimize your Wordpress blog

10 great ways to optimize your Wordpress blog: "Creating an effective presence in the blogosphere has become far more competitive in recent years. With the steady growth of Facebook and Twitter, blogs are morphing into social media micro sites of their social network affiliates. I only host sites on Linux backed servers for performance and security purposes. Some of the following suggestions can only be applied in a LAMP environment (i.e. - askapache's .htaccess tweaks). Here are a few tips and plugins that I have found have worked quite well. I cannot take full credit for these so please make sure to check out the developers associated with each tweak for further information."