3) Clean Your WordPress database

Your database is your baby, it is the warehouse for all your content, settings, user profiles and your comments. As your work increase so also a lot of unwanted junk data will increase. As such, your file size will also increase.

It will impact on the speed of processing. Cleaning up your database often will help improve the overall working condition of your system. A good plugin for achieving this is the WP-optimize plugin. I must introduce how it works.

The first thing is to create a backup for your WordPress site. We have discussed initially. After which you can start by installing the plugin and activating it. Upon activation the plugin shows up in your dashboard, you can go to its settings and run it.

It will help optimize your database and show you as it progresses.

4) Remove Broken Links

Links that are not available any longer are referred to as broken links. It happens due to a wide range of factors, either the website relocated to another domain or any other hosting related issues. For external links, the best thing is to remove them. But for internal links, you can easily look into the situation and fix it.

The problem with broken links is that they cause poor user experience and increase your website bounce rate. As such it is good you check your website often for broken links and fix them.