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I was wrong, and the evidence is now there in black and white!

by jazbo
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Hi all,

I can't find the thread, but the other day I stated that it was nonsense that load times for a site could impact on your Google rankings.

However, Matt Cutts has now said that while slow page load times won't negatively impact your rankings, fast load times may have a positive effect.

Google has also just launched this project:

Chromium Blog: A 2x Faster Web

The fact Matt Cutts has now commented on this at the same time this project was launched is obviously significant, so keep an eye on it.

So I was wrong, but happy to share what I found that proved I was!
#black #evidence #white #wrong
  • Profile picture of the author gordi555
    Thanks for sharing!
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  • Profile picture of the author tony-raymondo
    It even effects PPC cost per click
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      What you have said now is what I've been saying for a long
      time. Google does not penalize your site. What you do either
      raises it, or lowers it.

      But the "load time" would have to be some type of long-term
      average. Servers and IPs burp all the time. A check of how fast
      your site loads would only be valid for that exact second.
      Maybe we're talking more of "site not found" issues. Make sure you
      are on a reliable host with almost 100% uptime. I can't say it's
      even possible to be up 100%. Even google goes down for milliseconds
      here and there.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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