By Ann Smarty April 4th, 2017 Google has been talking about site speed for ages. They have been working hard to encourage webmasters to make their sites faster. To better understand where we started and what is going on today, I have created a helpful timeline summarizing what Googlers have been saying about site speed: Official: … Continue reading Site Speed: Ranking Factor or Not? Everything Googlers Ever Said about Site Speed
Nathan Resnick — March 17, 2017 Follow @naterez94— March 17, 2017 Nobody likes a slow website. In fact, a website that has a delay in the page load time by only 1 second is going to cost you 11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction and a 7% loss in conversions. That’s … Continue reading 4 Ways to Accelerate the Speed of Your Business’s Website
Brandon Leibowitz — March 15, 2017 Follow @seooptimizers— March 15, 2017 Search engines like Google use many thousands of different signals to determine which websites rank highest for each keyword. There are many ways to get your website to rank higher. For example, it’s common for search engine optimization specialists to focus on optimization tactics … Continue reading How To Speed Up Your Site For SEO
Columnist Bryson Meunier suggests that mobile page speed, while good for conversions and customer retention, might not be doing much for your mobile search rankings. Bryson Meunier on March 10, 2017 There are plenty of good reasons to make your mobile site fast, and Google just reminded us of them with their new industry … Continue reading Mobile page speed is important, but not (yet) for SEO
Ji-A Min — March 3, 2017 — March 3, 2017 LinkedIn’s latest recruiting survey reports 77% of talent acquisition leaders are interested in better recruitment software tools this year. With hiring up 11% this January and 56% of recruiters who already find the hiring process takes too long, time-constrained recruiting teams need help coping with … Continue reading 8 Recruitment Software Tools That Speed Up Your Day [Infographic]
Eric Seal — February 17, 2017 — February 17, 2017 To all the small businesses with mobile-friendly websites: We salute you. Maybe you followed our local search advice, or maybe you came to the conclusion yourself. One thing’s for sure—you’re making the mobile web a better place for users. But your job isn’t done. Far … Continue reading How to Increase Your Page Speed for Small Business Success
Nathan Resnick — February 13, 2017 Follow @naterez94— February 13, 2017 Website optimization has been a very popular topic these days since more and more people are on the web. Businesses in particular would want their websites to load fast because every second reduced from the loading time would result in a 1% increase in … Continue reading Why Optimizing Your Website’s Speed is Important to Increase Conversion
by Laurie Sullivan@lauriesullivan, December 27, 2016 As Google moves forward into mobile-first indexing, initially the algorithm will not take mobile Web site speed into consideration as it does for desktop, says John Mueller, a Google Webmaster Trends analyst based in Switzerland. “I don’t think we can do that from the beginning,” Mueller revealed Tuesday during … Continue reading Google Mobile-First Indexing Ranking May Not Initially Consider Site Speed
Carol Stephen — November 17, 2016 Follow @Carol_Stephen— November 17, 2016 Social Media: Spotlight on the Speed of Change People have complained about information overload since, well, since there were people. And I suspect that before homo sapiens, cro magnon man (and woman!) were also complaining about too much change. Now that social media is … Continue reading Social Media: Spotlight on the Speed of Change
Rob Petersen — November 14, 2016 — November 14, 2016 Website speed has long been recognized as a important factor that impacts search engine rankings. And a top factor in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Slow website speed creates a bad user experience, one that may result in visitors not coming back to your website or … Continue reading 14 Key Facts on Website Speed and 4 Top Tips When It’s Slow
