Posts Tagged ‘hosting’

• Ranking – will your hosting let you down?

  Monday, November 16th, 2009

  It looks as though load time will be taken into account as a ranking factor in the next few months.

  Slow page loads, eg content that buffers as your hosting company struggles to serve the pages, bloated code and so on, could all now affect your ranking in the search engines.

  It has taken a long time for this to actually be mooted as “close to implementation” but it is a really obvious ranking factor. Users do not want pages served up as top results that take a long time to load. They want instant gratification.

  This should come as a heads up to many. Website designers who do not strip unnecessary items out of code or who program inefficiently; hosting companies who do not have enough bandwidth available for their customers; traffic analysts who fail to equate high bounce rates with slow pages and advise their clients accordingly; and others.

  Take a long hard look at your site. Try it on different connections, not just the fat pipe in your office – don’t try to be an imaginary user, go and be a real one. Visit the library or cybercafe and see how long your site takes to load. You could even consider digging out that old dial up modem and see how it works for all those who still live in a non-broadband world.

  

  Tags: factor, Google, hosting, page load times, ranking, Web search engine, website design
  Posted in Google, SEO

• Multilingual SEO quick tips

  Monday, December 8th, 2008

  If you are considering a multi-lingual SEO and search marketing campaign, it is worth considering whether local versions of the website should be locally hosted. This can make an impact on SEO and alongside submitting to local directories and search engines, take a look at local hosting as a further option for your multi-lingual SEO. After all, having contacts in the hosting community within the country your website is designed to deliver to may also bring you useful leads and information you had overlooked.

  Tags: hosting
  Posted in Multi Lingual SEM