Optimizing website page loading speed

I am seeking expert advice regarding optimizing website page loading speed as determined by Google Webmaster Tools with particular attention to the Facebook Like button. Please contact webmaster@tubal-reversal.net

Valid html and Google plus One

It has been a while since I posted here as have been busy elsewhere, but this is something I feel I should share and hopefully receive some feedback on.

Google has recently introduced the plus one button but the standard code does not validate, even though Matt Cutts says valid html is not essential I like to use it where I can.

Here is my suggestion for a valid plus one button:

<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function renderPlusone(){gapi.plusone.render("g-plusone", {"size": "tall", "count": "true"});}
renderPlusone();
</script>
<div id="g-plusone"></div>


eg: http://www.tubal-reversal.net/dr-bergers-credentials.htm

Virtual Tour of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center @ Yahoo! Video

Virtual Tour of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center @ Yahoo! Video

Blogging to reach potential patients

At Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center it is part of our work to inform women that tubal ligation can be reversed in most cases.

One way of "spreading the word" is to publish articles and blogs that explain Tubal Reversal.

Of great help has been Debby Verville in this article on beliefnet.com she asks "Many times life will throw a curveball at us. One day we are happily married and the next we are finding ourselves in another relationship not realizing just how god life can be. For many women this is exactly the reason they are considering tubal ligation reversal surgery."

"Twitter Tools" and "TwitThis" added to the Tubal Reversal Website

We have installed the wordpress plugin "Twitter Tools" that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. It allows you automatically create new "tweets" when you publish blog posts.

All of our blogs

• http://www.tubal-reversal.net/blog/
• http://testimonials.tubal-reversal.net/
• http://pregnancy.tubal-reversal.net/
• http://press.tubal-reversal.net/
• http://www.tubal-reversal.net/patient-satisfaction-messages/

Now "tweet" new posts to

• http://twitter.com/chtrc

We have also added "TwitThis" to all pages on Tubal Reversal Net This post shows how to add "TwitThis" to blogger

1. On your Blogger Dashboard, click the Layout link for the blog you want to add the button to.

2. At the top of the Layout page, click the link for Edit HTML.

3. Where it says "Backup/Restore Template", click the link that says "Download Full Template" and save the .xml file to your hard drive. This file will help you restore your template, in case anything goes wrong.

4. In the "Edit Template" section, check the box at the top right that says "Expand Widget Templates".

5. Use your browser's search function to find this line:

<div class='post-footer'> Note this may have changed I placed it above the footer wrap div

6. Find the 2 lines in your template that look like this:

<div class='post-footer'>
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

7. Copy and paste the following code between those 2 lines:

<!-- Footer Button Codes BEGIN -->
<div>
<p><span id='footer-buttons'>
<!-- things placed after this line will show on all pages -->

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<!-- things placed after this line will only show on post pages -->

<!-- TwitThis Button BEGIN -->

<a href='javascript:(function(){TwitThisPop=window.open(%22http://twitthis.com/twit?url=%22+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+%22&amp;title=%22+((document.title)%20?%20encodeURIComponent(document.title.replace(/^\s*|\s*$/g,%27%27))%20:%20%22%22),%20%22TwitThisPop%22,%20%22width=600,%20height=500,%20location,%20status,%20scrollbars,%20resizable,%20dependent=yes%22);%20setTimeout(%22TwitThisPop.focus()%22,%20100);%20})()'><img alt='TwitThis' src='http://s3.chuug.com/chuug.twitthis.resources/twitthis_grey_72x22.gif' style='border:none;'/></a>

<!-- TwitThis Button END -->

<!-- Do Not Paste Any Code Below This Line -->
</b:if>
</span></p>
</div>
<!-- Footer Button Codes END -->

8. Click the button at the bottom of the page that says "Save Template".

If you get any red errors, leave a comment stating the specific error message, and I will try to help you out. If you get any errors beginning with "bX-", just try again tomorrow. Sometimes Blogger has issues with itself and waiting a bit can resolve them.

9. Look at your blog. If you have done this correctly, the button should appear on post pages only, and not the main page. Test the button by clicking it on a post and sharing one of your posts on Twitter.

10. If you would like to add other buttons to the footer of your posts, the comments in the code will help you decide where to put your button codes. One place will show on all pages, and the other will only show on post pages.

I have also used this code to place it in the side bar below the digg button.

Gary S. Berger, MD on Business Exchange

Dr. Berger's Business Exchange Profile
http://bx.businessweek.com profile links are good for SEO as they do not include the nofollow attribute.

Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only medical facility exclusively for tubal ligation reversal. I am the Medical Director and widely known as the tubal reversal doctor with the most experience reversing tied tubes.

I graduated college with honors from Harvard University and from the University of Rochester Medical School. Following medical internship at Duke University Medical Center, I began residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. I served in the US Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Family Planning Evaluation Program.

I completed my residency in obstetrics and gynecology and simultaneously obtained a Master's degree in Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health at Chapel Hill. During my appointment as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine, I trained abroad in tubal microsurgery techniques and initiated the tubal microsurgery program at the UNC Medical Center. I then entered private practice specializing in tubal reconstructive surgery.

I developed the outpatient technique for tubal ligation reversal and have performed more than 7000 of these procedures and with 30 years of clinical practice have acquired the greatest experience with this operation of any reproductive surgeon worldwide.

Gary Berger MD
Medical Director
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center

Work Experience
Education

Wordpress Search plug-in

The Wordpress Search plug-in 'Search Unleashed' extends the standard WordPress search and provides a full text search with wildcards, logical operations, and highlighting across posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, and meta-data. In addition to this, the plugin ensures that a search is performed across what a web browser sees, not what is contained within the database. For example, a lot of plugins will insert data into posts when they are displayed. Because this data is inserted run-time it is not included in any search results - the data is invisible. Search Unleashed performs searches across all data, including that added by plugins.

In this example we search Dr. Berger's blog for untying tubes