Landing page load time can increase your advertising cost!!

Discussion in 'Google AdWords' started by anshu18, Jul 1, 2008.

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    Now onwards, landing page load time factor will be incorporated into keywords’ Quality Scores. Keywords with landing pages that load slowly may get lower Quality Scores and thus higher minimum bids. On the other hand, keywords with landing pages that load very quickly may get higher Quality Scores and lower minimum bids.

    Your Quality Score may change/increase gradually over a number of weeks after you improve your load time.

    Factors Contributing to a slow load time:


    Below are common causes of a slow load time. If you don’t directly upkeep your site, you might want to pass this information along to your webmaster.

    Multi-second Meta refreshes

    Redirects that use multi-second meta refreshes are a common culprit. If you have a redirect set to occur after several seconds, change it to zero seconds so that the redirect happens immediately.

    Slow redirects
    To check the speed of your redirects, copy and paste your destination URL into a web browser to see how long the browser spends on each redirect URL. You can get more precise values using a tool like Fiddler (English only).

    Multiple redirects
    Each redirect increases your landing page load time. If you have more than one redirect, consider eliminating unnecessary ones.

    Interstitial pages
    If you employ an interstitial page (where the user waits for a few seconds before being taken to the landing page), you should consider removing it.

    Slow server
    Your site may be hosted by a slow server. Use Google’s Webmaster Tools to see how long your site takes to fetch. If it’s slow, contact your web hosting provider.

    Large page size
    If your page’s HTML document is very large, try compressing it with gzip or DEFLATE.

    So reduce your page load time to reduce the advertising cost ;)
     
    anshu18, Jul 1, 2008 IP
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    Great advice buddy!

    Are you an Adwords Qualified individual? :eek:
     
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    Yes, i am Google Adwords Certified Professional.
     
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    Cool. I was looking for the Google link to your cert but couldn't see it.
     
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    Many thanks. I've added your RSS to my reader. ;)
     
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    Thanks buddy for subscribing my blog. Soon, i am going to launch my own site :)
     
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    Great tips, I wonder what percentage of the quality score it makes up. Im assuming not very much, but every bit counts. Good luck
    -Patz
     
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    Yes, it is important that your landing page loads very quickly. Thanks for the advice!
     
    easymultitracking, Jul 2, 2008 IP
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    Also, see if you can shrink some of your images sizes.:cool:
     
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    great and thanks, i were many confusions about landing pages.
     
    salman4raza, Jul 3, 2008 IP
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    Great tips! Nice to see that someone has taken the time to put all of that together.

    KUDOS!
     
    motoxxx, Jul 3, 2008 IP