With all the Google buzz in promoting the “Page Speed” Firefox plugin to enhance speed of websites and also its campaign to have a faster internet and faster websites, one would wonder if Google’s next target to optimize its search results would be page speed.
Though page speed does have certain value while ranking pages, most search engine optimizers would not accept it to be one of the top factors. This is just because, Google and webmasters know that most of the sites on internet is either not well optimized to be faster or has huge applications running that will definitely make it slower. Also, a site speed does not depend solely on programming factors. It can depend on the media each page caries, graphics, server speed, traffic at the point of time and many more.
However, Matt Cutts has now clarified on this misconception. To a question if Google would consider Page Speed as much as relevancy by WebProNews, Matt Cutts answer was, relevancy by WebProNews, Matt Cutts answer was, “No. Relevancy is the most important. If you have two sites that are equally relevant (same backlinks…everything else is the same), you’d probably prefer the one that’s a little bit faster, so page speed can be an interesting theory to try out for a factor in scoring different websites. But absolutely, relevance is the primary component, and we have over 200 signals in our scoring to try to return the most relevant, the most useful, the most accurate search result that we can find. That’s not going to change.”
Matt Cutts also added, “If you can speed your site up, it’s really good for users, as well as potentially down the road, being good for search engines,” he says. “So it’s something that people within Google have thought about.”
Well, if you have a site more than 1000 pages, you would have wondered this. How many URLs can I stuff inside one sitemap? The sitemap has become considerablily big. Will Google index all the pages I have mentioned inside?
Well this is what Google has to say.
You can have a maximum of 50,000 URLs in one sitemap. Isn’t that cool?
The sitemap file should not be over 10MB in size when uncompressed. Hmm. Sounds fair.
If you have more than 50,000 URLs create multiple sitemaps and list them in a Sitemap Index File
Your sitemap index file should not cross 1,000 sitemaps
I guess these 4 guidelines by Google would resolve all your queries. I am not sure about Yahoo or MSN. If any of SEO Mind readers have an answer, please do post them here.
Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Digg arel sued by Sheldon F. Goldberg for patent infringement of US Patent 6,264,560.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls Sheldon Goldberg a wanted person who has crimes against the public domain for threatening small online gaming websites and claiming to own basic online gaming architecture. He has been using these patents to threaten many companies but has now actually filed lawsuits against Google, Yahoo, AOL, and even Digg. The patent covers playing games like solitaire online
Google has come up with automatic email schedules where Analytics reports are sent in Daily (sent each morning), Weekly (sent each Monday), Monthly (sent first day of each month) orQuarterly (sent first day of each quarter). They have all popular formats PDF, XML, CSV and TSV. These reports can also be sent to others with date comparision features.
Matt Cutts from the Quality Group at Google and a popular Webmaster Guide in the Internet world has stated that keywords separated with underscores are treated the same as keywords separated with hyphens.
Google will be treating sub domains similar to how folders are treated on a site. Matt Cutts from Google reported this update. He also did mention that Google will soon be treating even subdomains and subdirectories in the same way. He informed that there would be a total of only two URLs in any set of search results.
