The World of Warcraft (WoW) is a huge virtual world, bigger than most all of the other Massive Multiplayer Online games (MMO.) What this means for you is that you won't see all of it if you take just one character from level one to the level cap (which will be 85 with the Cataclysm expansion.) With that size comes lots of things to do, plus arenas, battlegrounds, raids and dungeons, thousands of quests, and more.
If you want to level up as quickly as possible, maybe to join your friends at higher level or get to the end-game content sooner, you might find the number of quests and objectives to be daunting. If you follow a few rules, though, you can greatly speed up your leveling, regardless of class or faction. The fastest way to get leveled, of course, is with a professionally created product, like Zygor's Guide, but that's only for the people who really need to get to max level ASAP.
First off, realize what the time killers are. PvP is great fun (for many of us,) but it doesn't help you get leveled. Shopping is also fun, especially if you have a full wallet, but it doesn't get you leveled faster. Hanging out on the inn's doorstep, lying about your exploits with your pals, spreading nasty rumors about the other faction, won't get you to 80 or 85 any sooner. Not that you shouldn't slaughter them at every opportunity or inform your associates about just how slimey the other side really is, just be aware of how much time you spend doing that.
There are a couple of ways to gain experience faster than the normal way. There's "rest XP," for one. Log out in an Inn and when you come back to that character you will get the bonus XP. The longer you stay in the Inn then the longer the XP lasts. The other is Blizzard's Recruit-a-Friend program. Your partner's and your accounts will be linked and when you fight together you will pick up XP at 3x the normal rate.
Besides the faster XP from Recruit a Friend, teaming will speed your leveling because, even though the basic XP gain is smaller, you will kill things much faster and have a lot less downtime. This gives you a net gain in XP/hour over going solo. Of course, to make this teaming thing work, you do have to have a compatible partner.
Skip the crafting professions, for now, since they'll slow you down. If you have adequate gold then skip the gathering professions. Really, you want to control anything that slows you down. marketing your loot is another time waster, but you have to do it. Make an Auction House Alt, which will live at the Auction House (AH.) When your bags are full of loot you just stop by the nearest mailbox instead of making the trip to the big city. Log into the banker when you're done and post your stuff on the AH. You'll also want to have the biggest bags you can afford. If you're making it a point to loot things then the big bags will allow you to collect a lot more loot before having to return to the mailbox.
Be aware of what skills are coming up next (you can go to Thottbot.com for a list) and skip that trip to town to train if there's nothing interesting coming up. Don't buy new stuff all the time. It's fine to wait a few levels before upgrading your gear. Certain classes are, of course, a little more gear dependent than others, but even the most dependent can wait three or four levels between upgrades.
Grinding isn't nearly as fast as questing, if you group your quests properly. When you hit a new area grab all the quests you want and then group them by area. Several of the quests will take you "over there" so do all of those at the same time. Try to always have more than one quest in any area that you're working in, whether it's the dungeon or the city. The worst way to go is to do one quest that takes you all over the place, then hand it in and do another which hits the same areas.
Just by organizing your time and following a few easy steps you will greatly improve your leveling speed. An expert leveling guide will really speed things up, but you'll be a lot faster than most of the competition and you'll have fun doing it. And isn't that the point?
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