Webmaster Tools, Load Times, and Quality Score May 3
I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve been busy working and not reading RSS feeds, but two separate bits of news caught my attention and I was wondering if anyone else thought there was something more to it.
A couple weeks ago, Google confirmed that they were including load times into the quality score algorithm. SearchEngineLand asked Google a series of questions about the new load time variable which Google responded too. The question on everyones mind was question 4, “How many seconds is considered a bad page load time?” Google answered “Our goal is to encourage advertisers with landing pages that are excessively slow to speed up their sites. It’s not possible to provide an exact number of seconds above which we would consider a site to load “slowly,” since we adjust for regional and country differences in average load times.”
Today. I was reading SearchEngineLand and they were talking about making your site “geospecific” and how Google determines where your site is located. How much are the two projects related do you think?
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