Make your website faster to have better ranking byGoogle

Most serious bloggers are constantly trying to climb to the top of a Google search results page! Well here is a great hint that may help you climb search results a little faster than your competition. Read also How to Rank #1 in Google Search Page?

Recently Google rep Matt Cutts suggested that page load times / speed of your website will affect your site position in Google. This hint is in line with other news the Google plan to "speed up the internet".

Previously Google has not factored page load time into the algorithm, although it does make a great deal of sense considering Google's all about the end user experience. Who wants to be sent to a slow loading website, the quicker the better! So, faster loading website should be rank higher.

Matt suggested that we should all start paying attention to the tools and other resources found on http://code.google.com/speed a variety of plug-ins and external tools aimed to help optimize your web pages for speed.

At the end of the day what does this mean for your web pages?

It means start optimizing images (get rid of fat images., videos and audio clips), cleaning your code, compressing java script etc.. (better still, remove unnecessary scripts and maintain minimal ads scripts). In fact, if your site has a script that link to a slower site, it will affect your site load time.

Although this can be seen as just adding to the work load of SEO'rs.. quicker page load for your visitors means a much happier consumer which will have a knock on effect for sales, consumer engagement and enjoyment.

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* SEO suicide by de-indexing from Google

You may also want to:
* Test your website speed
* Check your Website speed
* Web Wait

A few more words on website load time issue

Who’s responsible for a slow website?

A website’s response rate is dependent on many factors; including the hosting server CPU load, RAM usage, network speeds, and the web program’s efficiency. Do note that not every one of these factors are web host’s responsible.For instance, it’s the web owner’s responsibility to assure that his/her website is coded efficiently to avoid server resources wastage. Sometimes, it can be your ISP that’s responsible for the slow website.

How slow load time will affect your website?

Slow website load time is a problem that you cannot afford to overlook. A few critical consequences with slow website load time, including permanent lost of website traffics and increase of advertising cost are simply destructive.