Google officially announced that they are incorporating website speed as one of the factors in their search ranking algorithms. Site speed is a measure of website response time to a web request.

So if your website or blog is really bulky having a lot of flash, images and scripts and it takes too long to respond on a web request, its time to worry.

However site speed alone will not affect the search engine rankings in a broader way as there are many more factors.

According to Matt Cutts,

“Less than 1% of search queries will change as a result of incorporating site speed into our ranking. That means that even fewer search results are affected, since the average search query is returning 10 or so search results on each page.

So please don’t worry that the effect of this change will be huge. In fact, I believe the official blog post mentioned that ‘We launched this change a few weeks back after rigorous testing.’

The fact that not too many people noticed the change is another reason not to stress out disproportionately over this change.”

Now the question arises how to speed up my website, below are some points which you can use to improve your website speed.

1. Choose a good hosting provider: Your website hosting provider must be good and reliable. Actually in shared hosting there are thousands of website hosted on same server and if the CPU and server capabilities are low it will certainly affect the loading speed of your website. Dedicated hosting is always better, but if you’re unable to afford it at this point of time, at least choose a good host.
2. Use very less flash elements on your website
3. Use less images and if you are using large images, load them in parts, it will boost overall website speed.
4. External JavaScript code files must be combined in one file, it will help page load faster.
5. Combine all external CSS files and compress them
6. Use website tracking codes and other JavaScript which needs to connect external servers to load, in the footer of the page.

These are some of the suggestions which can help your webpages load faster.

Do you have any more suggestions which can help improving website speed, share it with us here

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According to comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, Google is the leader in US search market. In a search release it states that Americans conducted 14.5 billion core searches in February 2010, with Google Sites accounting for 65.5 percent search market share.

The share of top 5 search engines is as follows: (Total US searches performed in home, work and university locations)

• Google Sites – 65.5%
• Yahoo! Sites – 16.8%
• Microsoft Sites – 11.5%
• Ask Network – 3.7%
• AOL LLC – 2.5%

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There is good news for all of those who have Google toolbar installed in their web browsers, and I know all of you have it.

All SEOs, SEMs and Internet marketers install Google toolbar in their browsers mainly for checking Page Rank, Google Cache of pages and backwards link. More functions include Google search, Skype Casts, Gmail, Articles search, Page Rank, Translate, Auto fill and lots more.

Now Google has also added Share button in their toolbar using which you can easily bookmark and share resources (web page articles, videos, music etc) with different bookmarking and social media websites.

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Finally Google PR updating Cycle Started on 2 April 2010. It seems that this time Google gad been generous in giving away Page Rank.

3 of my website went from PR 4 to PR 5, many of them from PR 0 to PR.

This blog RituRajMishra.com has gained a Page Rank of 2 without any specific work done.

How your sites have done in this PR update, share with us by posting in comments.

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