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Google's new criteria is coming fast!

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Real Estate Agent with Virtual Properties - Atlanta Real Estate 255736

This was relevant in 2010 and is still relevant in 2017!  Speed matters!  

Check your speed here.

It's best to get a true SEO consultant if your site is slow.

Google is up to tinkering with their Search Engine results again!  This time it's not just the relevance of the site which will still have the most weight, but rather the speed of the page.

"Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we've seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. But faster sites don't just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs. Like us, our users place a lot of value in speed — that's why we've decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings. We use a variety of sources to determine the speed of a site relative to other sites."

You can read more by going to their website.

What does this really mean? Most likely, for most of us in Real Estate, it'll simply mean that we will be using less "widgets," less pulls from other sites - which when you think about it is why Google is getting it right. Whoever has the most original content "WINS" in this case, or maybe it's just who's the fastest. Ironically, the biggest culprit on my sites is Google Analytics... LOL.

Watch this video for the real scoop!

 

Comments (4)

Catherine Chaudemanche - Edison & Central NJ
Metuchen Keller Williams Elite Realty / Middlesex County, NJ - Edison, NJ
Full Time, Informed and Involved- Results Driven
I wonder how it will affect our blog pages like ActiveRain where it seems that the more comments and the longer the page takes to load for example.
Apr 11, 2010 10:26 PM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Thanks for sharing. Best wishes for a most productive week.

 Maryland Daffodils at the Daffodil Show.

Apr 11, 2010 11:54 PM
Don Sabinske
Don Sabinske, Sabinske & Associates Inc. - Zimmerman, MN
Sabinske & Associates Inc.
Good news....except for the Rain. Many times when I try to log in, I get the white screen of death...I restart the computer and then that usually fixes it but how fun is that?
Apr 12, 2010 01:03 AM
Israel Rothman - upLog.org
SocialMediaSystems.com - Boerne, TX

Most dynamic sites of this size are slow at times.  Speed will not be the only criteria, just one of them.

Our site is a huge blog and very fast, they can be speedy if teh hosting and database and PHP functions are setup properly.  There may be some microsoft operating system sites and others than need to speed up.

Apr 13, 2010 02:40 AM