Shaun Whynacht explains how uncompressed images slow your site and hurt your Google ranking. Compress images before uploading using WordPress plugins or external tools to speed up load times and improve search visibility.
Here's a tip that's going to help you with your Google search ranking that you may be doing right now that is actually hurting you. You're uploading images to your website that are too large. Maybe you're taking high-resolution photos on your phone, not compressing them, not shrinking them, and uploading them directly to your blog and to your website. Google does not like this. They are penalizing you for this because it increases the load speed of your site, and that is not a good thing. So put in a plugin in your WordPress site, reduce your files before you upload them. There's apps, there's plugins. There's tools out there to do that, and that will increase your site speed, which ultimately will increase your Google ranking because Google likes fast user experiences.
Julie Vanexan recognizes Shaun Whynacht from Blue Cow Marketing at the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
