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Web Marketing Tip: Website Speed Affects Ranking

July 8th, 2010, Category: Web Marketing Tip

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Breaking web marketing tip just in! Website speed affects ranking – it’s official. The good folks at Google have stated that website speed is one of many methods they use to judge the quality of a website. Oh, and get this: website speed also affects your Google page rank – well I never!

Website Speed Affects Hearing and Ranking

Don’t be like the Formula One driver who got stuck in a traffic jam – he was very very grumpy. Put pedal to the metal and optimize your web pages for speed as part of your website marketing plan.

In doing so, make sure you also optimized code and images. And web hosting is another useful tool on your web marketing tool belt when it comes to website speed.

So crank up your engine, embrace warp speed and directly affect your search engine placement – it’s all a question of speed.

  • http://www.skylight-studios.co.uk james

    I do find this a problem because it not always the website fault if it suffers from slowdown. I assume that google will have in prace a set of tests that will check the speed over a length of time to give a more accurate evaluation of the website.

    Problems with servers, line speed bottlenecks all play a role of causing a website to be slow.

    Because of this I think that speed testing will only play a small role on determine the quality of the website compared to more important aspects such as keywords, content and structure.

  • http://designbit.co.uk Anthony

    I agree James. Speed is also aligned with usability. The user will only wait a certain amount of time to achieve his task.

  • http://www.lemon-fresh.co.uk Danny Cheeseman

    I am suffering from a speed problem at the min, I am thinking a whole new design is in order. Damn Google! lol, but on a serious note it is good as Anthony has pointed out as accessibility and usability is the main priority..