http://www.rocktheboatmarketing.com/blog/slow-site-optimize%e2%80%94or-forfeit-search-traffic/ Digital Strategy for Financial Services Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:03:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.rocktheboatmarketing.com/blog/slow-site-optimize%e2%80%94or-forfeit-search-traffic/#comment-207 Pat Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:06:49 +0000 http://rocktheboatmarketing.com/blog/?p=125#comment-207 <p>Todd, thanks for stopping by. Just yesterday, Google's Matt Cutts confirmed that relevance trumps site speed in Search results. Here's a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.googlelivesearch.com/sem/seo/google-sets-record-straight-on-page-speed-as-ranking-factor/">link to his video</a>.</p> Todd, thanks for stopping by. Just yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that relevance trumps site speed in Search results. Here’s a link to his video.

]]> http://www.rocktheboatmarketing.com/blog/slow-site-optimize%e2%80%94or-forfeit-search-traffic/#comment-203 Todd Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:32:04 +0000 http://rocktheboatmarketing.com/blog/?p=125#comment-203 This topic seems to be stirring up some debate and I tend to agree that speed should not be a factor in ranking pages. The results we expect to see are based on relevance to the search term, not on how well someones corporate webmaster can combine javascript files and compress images. What is going to happen to all the sites that have invested in video and dynamic content? This topic seems to be stirring up some debate and I tend to agree that speed should not be a factor in ranking pages. The results we expect to see are based on relevance to the search term, not on how well someones corporate webmaster can combine javascript files and compress images. What is going to happen to all the sites that have invested in video and dynamic content?

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