SEO Tip #66: Should I Remove Widgets that Increase My Sites Load Time?

SEO Tip #66: Should I Remove Widgets that Increase My Sites Load Time?

Matt Cutts: My rough answer is do what’s best for the user. That’s what’s first and foremost because that is what’s going to attract more users, more loyalty, more buzz, people linking to you, people talking about you, that’s the main thing you want to care about. Whenever Google talked about using page speed or site speed as a relevant, possible signal in our scoring results a lot of people went
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SEO Tip #18: Do site load times have an impact on Google rankings?

SEO Tip #18: Do site load times have an impact on Google rankings?

Matt Cutts: The short answer is not right now. Now let’s give a little more color. Of course if a site takes so long to load that we can’t even fetch it, Googlebot can’t get a copy of it, then that will have an effect on your rankings because your site is essentially timing out. If your site is taking 20 or 30 seconds to respond to requests that could be
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