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Fix Those Slow Web Pages
Back when most of us used slow phone modems to surf the web, the speed with which a page loaded was very important. Now that so many people have broadband, is it still important? You bet it is! In an...
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Is Speed a New Factor In Google Rankings?
Over the past several months, a consistent theme that Google has been involved with is that of speed. In announcement after announcement, Google has talked about the importance of speed on the web, and...
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Page Speed Affects Your Rankings
Last November, we predicted that Google would soon factor page download speed into its ranking algorithm. Well, last month, Google announced that they had, in fact, started to use site speed as one of...
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Page Speed Automated
Somewhere within Google, there’s an organization known as the “Make the Web Faster” initiative. It’s based on the belief that the faster pages load in your browser, the better. People are no longer...
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Recovery From Google’s Panda Update
Google’s recent algorithm update named Panda has caused many websites to lose rankings in a big way. Most deserved it, but not all. Earlier this month, NPR ran a story about a furniture store called...
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Google Improves Flash Handling – Is It Enough?
The Good News Google started to improve it’s ability to index Flash content a couple of years ago. Now it can see content within Flash files so it can index that content. And it can follow links within...
View Article2013 Google Ranking Factors
Thanks to our friends at Moz for this. Note the prominence of Page Authority and the number of Google +1s. Do you have a +1 button on your pages? We welcome your comments below. The post 2013 Google...
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Why Your Page Speed May Be Sabotaging Your Rankings
Google announced back in 2010 that Page Speed — how quickly your web page downloads into a visitor’s browser — would be a factor in rankings. That makes sense when you consider Google’s increasing...
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Don’t Optimize for Google
Huh??? Sure, Google gets twice as many searches as Yahoo and Bing combined, but you shouldn’t optimize for Google. You shouldn’t optimize for Yahoo and Bing either. It’s the User. It’s always the User....
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Are Website Sliders Hurting Your Visibility and Conversions?
Sliders are cool. Sliders are an increasingly popular technique on websites. You know, the rotating images with compelling marketing text that scroll across the top of a web page. Four or five seconds...
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Page Speed for Google Rankings and Conversions
Page Speed Affects Your Search Rankings and Conversions When it comes to your website slow speed kills rankings and conversions. What is Page Speed? Page speed refers to how quickly a page on your...
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Frightening News about Page Speed and Bounce Rate
Page speed and bounce rate – a couple of definitions Page speed: the time it takes to fully display the content on a specific web page. Bounce rate: the percent of visits to a site that look at only...
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Helpful Smartphone User Information for Your SEO
Good-to-know smartphone usage information. The infographic below is from last year and from UK Web Host Review, but it’s still definitely relevant in 2021 in the US. As just a single point of SEO...
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Google’s New Ranking Factor: Page Experience
Google’s next big algorithm change for Page Experience is planned for launch next year. It will measure user enjoyment of web pages using both old and new specific ranking factors, grouped into a page...
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Here: 7 Steps to Prepare for Google’s Page Experience Factor
Page experience will affect your rankings soon There’s a new algorithm change at Google scheduled for next May, and it promises to be a big one. Google calls it the Page Experience factor and we...
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Google’s Next Big Algorithm Update Postponed
Page Experience update bumped by a month Google’s Page Experience algorithm update starts going into effect in mid-June. The launch of Google’s coming page experience algorithm update scheduled for...
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