Just got the #2 position in Google doing this..

[Amitywill]

So I have a little site that was ranking number 4 in Google.

This site was hosted on one of my C class ip hosting packages
and I noticed that the site was loading very slow, above 10
seconds.

Now Google have been saying themselves that site loading
speed is a part of their ranking factor so I decided to test
and see.

I transferred this site over to one of my Hostgator packages
and installed W3 Cache plugin which helps to minimize files
on your website etc and speed up the loading time of your
site.

This site now loads in 3.7 seconds and I woke up this morning
to see that the site had moved up from #4 to #2 overnight
for a keyword that has a lot of people trying to rank for it.

So if your site is loading slow then make sure you get some
good hosting and do whatever it takes to get your site to load
fast. Not only will your visitors be happy that they don't have
to wait around for ages but your rankings in Google may improve
too.

Will

[mahmoud747]

This plugin is very good but i don't know how to configure it, and i'm afraid if it make a negative affect on my site if i didn't configure it right

[Amitywill]

Originally Posted by mahmoud747

This plugin is very good but i don't know how to configure it, and i'm afraid if it make a negative affect on my site if i didn't configure it right

Here's a quick yt vid I found

W3 Total Cache and why you should be using it -...

You don't really need to change that much in the settings
plus you can always deactivate it if you don't like it.

Before you activate it check to see how fast your site loads
using Pingdom Tools

And use Googles online pagespeed checker
https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/

And then check after you've installed the plugin to see your
improvements.

Will

[dollaring]

Thanks for your sharing, this is very useful to me.

[sammyQc]

Another great free page speed tester with more insights :
blamestella.com

[athenistic]

While I'm sure your methods weren't bad, I wouldn't necessarily attribute your increase to that. There was a huge update this morning that's affecting just about everyone. All of my sites either went significantly up or down in position.

If it were any other day, I'd probably believe it.

[steady]

I didn't know that page speed tool ever existed, thanks!

[momfriend]

Thanks that's a good thing to know.
Do you know of a good place to make a little website for affiliate marketing?
I think mine will be little like yours. Awesome please reply

[Chris Sweeney]

Originally Posted by Amitywill

Just curious - what program are you using to check your rankings?

[masterjani]

Page loading and bounce rate is always playing a bit part in rankings.

[ahefner33]

Originally Posted by Chris Sweeney

Just curious - what program are you using to check your rankings?

From looking at it it looks like TrafficTravis

[kennyk3]

Great advice. I don't really consider this when building sites. I definitely will now.

I have a site ranked at number 6 for a pretty competitive keyword. I'm gonna upload this plugin and see what happens. Thanks!

[theseopanda]

Site speed is far more important than people realize, with even moderate gains, you will see more traffic and more page views. I have reduced sites from 0.4 seconds to 0.3 seconds and seen increases of 15% of traffic (millions of page views, so it's not a statistical anomaly). 10 seconds is utterly useless! You've got 10 seconds to grab someones attention in general, so if your page is still loading after 10 seconds, you've simply shown them nothing interesting and they've judged you and they're gone. They are also less likely to give you a second page view as well, because they know how long it's going to take to get that page.

So if you keep pushing up your speed, you're going to see more traffic from google,(better positions as you've seen) fewer bounces and more people clicking through your site and sticking to it. And that includes very small changes, from just 0.4 to 0.3. It makes a huge difference.

Finding the best servers, and the best bandwidth is important. Too many people over estimate the amount of bandwidth they will need, disk space or cores. The most important factor is single page speeds.

[Samrath Gupta]

Thanks for sharing such a great piece of info...

I will try this w3cache plugin on my site