Posts Tagged ‘optimization’

Optimize the website to load faster

Monday, April 12th, 2010

With a new algorithm being added by Google which involves the site’s speed, it is important for a website to be able to load fast. Making a website load faster involves a lot of work and it is essential that everything is tweaked properly without sacrificing security.

The first factor would be no other than the site’s hosting company. Be sure to use reliable webhost that has minimal downtime. Host the website in countries where the website’s visitors are flocking at. If the visitors are mainly from the U.S, host the website somewhere in the U.S.

Some content management systems such as Magento and WordPress have a caching feature. What this does is that it creates a static website out of a dynamic one and as a result, it significantly improves the site’s loading speed as there will be fewer burdens on the server.

In addition to that, use tools such as the Pingdom tool to see the files that are making the website load slowly. If it is an image that is making the website load slowly, reduce its quality. As for JavaScript and CSS files, compress them.

These are just some of the many factors that needs to be taken care of while optimizing a website to load faster.

Refrain from Over SEO Optimization

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Too much of anything is never good. Even in search engine optimization there must be a balance in the optimization of each page. Too much ‘optimization’ might not be healthy as well. Most often than not, search engines will ignore the pages with too much of this optimization and in result, the webmaster will lose a lot of potential coverage from search engines as well.

Sometimes, publishers who have just learned the value of keywords and long tail keywords tend to place a lot of junk at the bottom of the screen. This junk can be a 20 line paragraph filled with keywords. Not only will it be a pain in the eye for the readers but search engines may think of it as spamming. Nowadays, keywords stuffing aren’t working anymore for Google and sometimes, websites get penalized because of this as well so steer clear from doing so.

Some pages also have titles that resembles between one and another. These pages have the potential to be flagged as duplicates in both contents and keywords. Instead, try to rephrase as best as possible so that the content would be unique.

If a site has a lot of writers, tell them only a bit about SEO optimization and let the publishers handle all the SEO working. Due to them being novices, they may do over optimization unintentionally and as the result, it will give them a lot of pressure in the process of correcting these issues as well.