Imagine landing on a website which takes ages to load. What would you do? There is little doubt that you would hit the back button and click on the next search result. In this day and age, having a website which loads slowly is a crime. You going to waste the visitors time and he will for this very reason never click on the search result containing your URL.

Website loading time can be categorized as a website performance factor. Google’s goal is to provide users with the most relevant results and a great user experience. Fast sites increase user satisfaction and improve the overall quality of the web (especially for those users with slow internet connections). The higher your website performance stats, chances are Google will give it a slight push towards the top results.

Site Performance is an experimental Webmaster Tools Labs feature that shows you latency information about your site. It shows you the average page load time for pages in your site, the trend over the last few months, and some suggestions on how to make the pages load faster. Page load time is the total time from the moment the user clicks on a link to your page until the time the entire page is loaded and displayed in a browser. However, there is one glitch. The data is collected directly from users who have installed the Google Toolbar and have enabled the optional PageRank feature

There are a number of free online website performance tools available online that will help you reduce your web page load speed. Continue Reading

A FOREVER FACT: There is always something new to learn in SEO. Today I came across code to text ratio factor in SEO. I researched a bit on it and came out a little confused. Let’s begin from the beginning. In Simple terms, Code to text ratio is calculated by search engines to judge the relevancy of a web page. It is a simple ratio of code to text present in a web page. A higher code to text ratio gives your website a better chance of getting a good page ranking. Continue Reading

I haven’t written a post for a long time. So I thought I would compile a list of Free PR 8 and PR 9 search directories and make my readers happy. I spent an entire day searching for PR 8 and PR 9 directories, but, I could manage to collect only a handful of them. In the process, I managed to find more free search directories ranging across various PR.

Drill down to the most relevant category of the search directory, fill in the form and if approved by the moderator, your website will get a backlink from a PR8 or PR 9 website. Cheers. Continue Reading

Every fortnight / month end search engine optimizers around the world send out detailed SEO reports to their clients. One of the most important modules of this report is the keyword ranking position. Earlier the position of the keyword was tracked manually. The increase in the number of search engine ranking tools has made manual keyword tracking a thing of past.

Imagine keeping track of the targeted keywords and receiving their ranking report day by day. Now who wouldn’t love that? Here is a list of search engine ranking tools to track the SERP position of your keyword. The list is a mix of free and paid keyword ranking tools. Continue Reading

Keyword Competitor is a real time competitive analysis tool for understanding your competition online. Based on the reports generated by the keyword competitor tool, you can develop your own strategy to rank better than your competitors.

Keyword Competitor gives you a lifetime free trial unlike the other 30 day free trails available with other competitive analysis tools.

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