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Does Website Speed Affect Your Ranking? (infographic)

From interiordesigncommunity.com

Have you ever been to a slow site and it felt like it took hours to load? You look down at your computer clock and really only 30 seconds have gone by. That's just the user experience on a slow site- the real question is “Does your website speed effect your ranking?”
Will your slightly slower site be penalized by Google and other search engines when you clients are even looking for you?
In this easy to understand graphic, we see that 1 second makes all the difference in the world. And after just 6 short weeks of poor load times, your site can lose 75% of it’s traffic to that page.
If you have a low ranking you might want to follow some of the Google Guidelines to pre-load your most popular pages to increase your site’s overall performance.
Ally Greer:

Great point: if search engines yield results leading to slow sites, people will be discouraged from trusting said search engines.


As a consequence, sites with slower load times are less likely to appear in search results. If you're not sure how your load time measures up, or how to fix it if it doesn't, check out some of the tools listed in this Kissmetrics blogpost.
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Mr Tozzo's curator insight, March 4, 2014 8:12 AM

Does Website Speed Affect Your Ranking? (infographic)
Carlos Polaino Jiménez's curator insight, March 8, 2014 6:12 AM

SEO SEO, al final todo es KPI's y posicionamiento. 
outofseo's curator insight, April 4, 2014 5:27 AM

Website speed affects ranking and conversions. Pages load time is an important issue to be fixed if load time is over 3 sec.

 
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How Social Media Impacts SEO and Site Ranking: infographic

From blog.red-website-design.co.uk

Search engine optimization has not been dependent on a minimal number of factors for a long time now, such as number of times a keyword appeared on a page, and it continues to become a more complex web of on and off-page factors every month. One of the more recent factors that has had an impact on search ranking is social media.


This infographic breaks down ways that social media influences the visibility of your website in search results, including:


  • Social media can help search engines find and index your content faster
  •  Likes, shares, retweets, etc. indicates to search engine that content is new and interesting, often leading to a temporary increase in rankings
  • Your content will increase in search results for people connected to you
  • Increases domain authority and the number of inbound links to your website
Ally Greer:

Here's a great infographic with some key stats on how social sharing can help increase your SEO rankings.


Fun Fact: When you share your content on Scoop.it (or someone else does) it's indexed in search engines as a piece of curated content. 


What does this mean? While links shared on Scoop.it are no-follow links (like any other social network), they have a unique quality - they don't disappear after they're out of the stream. Essentially, your post is indexed as a curated post in addition to the original piece of content being indexed as a page on your site. Plus, you get all of the mentioned benefits of social sharing, like being discovered more easily and proving engagement.

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Jayne Courts's comment, May 22, 2013 3:54 AM
Venkatesh - if I am able I give my site as much media support as I can. As a social media trainer I need to 'try out' media before I can teach others to use it and give an insight into which is useful and which is not. So I tend to put my site and what I am doing out on the various social media platforms at least twice a day - I don't over emphasise my site because that can be counter productive (people switch off if all they see from you is self-promotion) and so it is keeping your presence alive but not switching off potential clients by constant ME, ME, ME. I perform both SEO services and social media training for others (see - just a bit of self promotion LOL)
Michelle Gilstrap's curator insight, May 22, 2013 12:18 PM

SEO and Social Media why it works and how it helps your ranking. Excellent infograpic.
Stephanie Smetana's curator insight, July 9, 2013 7:17 PM

This infographic is a great way to depict many of the articles I've previously pointed out that cover SEO and social media. It is almost easier to explain the relationship in an image format, especially for those who don't have a background in SEO.

 

There are many other factors that go into how much social media truly affects SEO, so there is more to be explained after this. But this is a great introductory image. It also emphasizes the speed with which social media makes an impact.

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