Google ranking factor for 2010

Google announced yesterday about the main ranking factor that will effect the indexing in 2010 after the caffeine will be implemented.

This was already known to us but now it will be emphasized most.

 

I wouldn't call it the "main ranking" factor but more like a factor they they are going to put more emphasis on this coming year.

I actually think this is a great idea... if a page takes longer and a few seconds to load I click the back button.

 

So my mini page sites will do even better next year, but keep in mind that Googlebot does
not render the page on a monitor like our browsers, and THAT is where all the time is consumed.

Googlebot only downloads the html source of the page and stores it for later.

Therefore, my source code speed checker service will go viral next year for sure.


Bompa

 

Personally I cant really see this being a ranking factor to worry about, unless you have a sites that consistently takes like 30+ seconds to load.

 

Google doesn't do what it announced.... so let's wait and see.

 

Thanks for the info. Will definitely help anyone who's doing SEO at the moment.
But sometimes its better to stick to the old ways.(Content is King!!) Who knows what Google decides for 2011.You might end up being kicked back after a year or even earlier if Google decides to change something in the algorithm.

 

I think that a lot of worpress blogs will suffer as a result as this as it can take ages for these blogs to load up

 

Really- that is interesting!

 

Hello...

So i guess hosting companies will have to be top notch otherwise nobody will want to use them.
As well scripts will have load quickly if not its clients will move on to others...

here is the Google tool matt talks about http://code.google.com/speed

And i agree that site speed should be a factor (providing your site isnt penalized for a hiccup now and again)
as i Hate sitting at any site longer then 2-3 seconds as i wont stick around any longer then that...

thx
Malcolm1

 

Not the single page site is going to rank well it depends on the size of that page no matters it is a single page website or thousand page website.

 

Google takes into account ever 200 factors when determining ranking, so adding a new one won't affect the system too much.