Year: 2011

  • 10 Proven Tips to Boost Your Website’s Speed.

    10 Proven Tips to Boost Your Website’s Speed.

    Embeds like analytics scripts, tracking scripts, and social media widgets are not always designed and written as well as one might hope; consequently, including too many of them in a web page can incur large slowdowns in loading time. Indeed, this Ghostery study shows such slowdowns.

    Top Ten Ways To Improve Site Speed

    As we saw in Part One of our series on website optimization, a slow site can seriously impact user experience. Anything over 3 seconds is going to be an irritation to users, and irritated users lead to lost sales, reduced conversions, and higher bounce rates. For instance, figures released by Walmart show that increased load times are significantly correlated with lowered conversion rates. Specifically, a precipitous drop occurs as load times increase between one and three seconds. (more…)

  • Are Slow Load Times Killing Your Sales (6 Infographics)

    Are Slow Load Times Killing Your Sales (6 Infographics)

    Are Slow Load-Times Killing Your Conversion Rate – Part One: 6 Best Infographics

    We’ve all experienced that frustration—when a page takes forever to load, burdened by unoptimized images, widgets, and analytics scripts. To make matters worse, these elements often pull from scattered servers, creating unnecessary lag with each round-trip request. Today, we’re going to have a look a 6 of the best infographics on the subject, and next week we’ll show you the top 10 causes of slow web pages and what you can do to fix them.

    1) Instant America by Mashable

    Unsurprisingly, Americans demand speed—whether from waiters, sales staff, or websites. In fact, slow-loading sites frustrate us most, as Mashable’s infographic clearly shows.

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  • Yahoo! Introduces New Website Marketing Tools

    Yahoo! Introduces New Website Marketing Tools

    In recent months Yahoo have been hitting the headlines more for their boardroom drama and patent trolling than their innovations and services. But with the recent introduction of the Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard, they have created a product that many small and medium businesses and startups who lack the resources to invest in more pricey web site analytics should definitely take a look at.

    Yahoo! already offer a host of services for small businesses, including Yahoo! Finance and Mail. With the Marketing Dashboard they aim to provide a way for businesses to track the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and discover new opportunities for growth.

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  • How Google’s Parked Domains Mistake Affected Rankings

    How Google’s Parked Domains Mistake Affected Rankings

    There is not a site owner in the whole World Wide Web that isn’t concerned about how their website is ranked on Google. Recently, you may have noticed that your site’s ranking has dipped.

    If you’re thinking it is due to Google’s announced over-optimization penalty, you might want to think again.

    There’s been a lot of buzz on search forums and even Google’s discussion board about these drops. The whispers of the new upcoming penalty are getting louder.

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  • Google+ and SPYW – They’re Here to Stay

    Google+ and SPYW – They’re Here to Stay

    The internet is abuzz with chatter about the new Google Search plus Your World.  Love it hate it, for now it is here to stay.  The question is what effect if any it will have on your SEO efforts.  This isn’t the first time Google has attempted to individualize search results.  Your physical location and sites you tend to go to regularly all have an impact on the results that you receive.

    Google has now taken it one giant step forward.  With Google SPYW, your own personal experiences and those of your friends and associates in your circles will rank higher in search results than websites with more authority and links.

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  • Search, Plus Your World’, a Game Changer?

    Search, Plus Your World’, a Game Changer?

    Google’s awkwardly-named new results page has been stirring quite a lot of attention this past week. Rather than go in-depth explaining the change, we’ll first let one of Google’s pretty product videos do the talking:

    For those that still aren’t seeing the new results page consistently (a lot of people still, according to SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin), Google’s Matt Cutts posted this blog, talking about how he’d used the new feature.

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  • ASEOHosting Acquires ‘Class B Equivalent’ of IPv4 Space

    ASEOHosting Acquires ‘Class B Equivalent’ of IPv4 Space

    Hudson, Florida, U.S.A., November 26, 2011 – ASEOHosting, an industry leader in providing quality SEO hosting services and multiple IP hosting in both the US and Europe, announced today that they have acquired a /16 of IPv4 address space (255 Class C’s) to their already extensive network of SEO hosting infrastructure.

    Multiple IP hosting offers

    Webmasters the opportunity to host across multiple IP ranges to achieve better search engine optimization.  Multiple IP hosting, also called SEO hosting, has a basic idea. Search engines rank related sites better. This happens when they link to each other from different IP ranges.

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  • Google’s Hidden Graphing Calculator: How to Plot Equations in Search

    Google’s Hidden Graphing Calculator: How to Plot Equations in Search

    As a clever addition, Google’s Inside Search blog announced last week that the search engine would now function like a graphing calculator when entering functions like you would on your old TI.

    woa colors!
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  • ASEOHosting to Offer European Dedicated SEO Servers

    ASEOHosting to Offer European Dedicated SEO Servers

    Hudson, Florida, U.S.A., November 26, 2011 – ASEOHosting, an industry leader in providing quality SEO hosting services and domain registration to both the US and Europe, has announced that they now offer dedicated SEO servers for their European clients.

    ASEOHosting already provides SEO hosting services for customers throughout Europe. They also cater to those who prefer to host websites on various GEO locations. This includes using different private name servers and Class C IP addresses.

    Aseohosting has expanded its European product and service offerings.

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  • Changes to QDF Impact 35 Percent of Google Searches

    Changes to QDF Impact 35 Percent of Google Searches

    Using an SEO hosting company that is up-to-date with the latest information is extremely important. As a case in point, Google recently announced that their new search algorithm will affect approximately 35 percent of all searches. This means that if your SEO hosting company does not accommodate for the changes, you may be losing out to your competition.

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