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Google’s fascination at making the web faster stretches on to the Webmaster Tools via Site Performance analytics feature. Site Performance which is currently under Webmaster Tools Labs provides you with various information that indicates how fast your site loads from the user’s end. Site Performance gives you the average page load time of the different pages comprising your websites or blogs. It also provides you with appropriate suggestions that you can do to improve problem areas of your sites loading performance. Google collects your site’s performance data from users who are using Google Toolbar and have enabled PageRank feature. Site Performance is a pretty cool feature of Webmaster Tools. It’s quite interesting to see how your websites and blog design affects your site’s performance. For instance, if you’re using a generic WordPress template, Site Performance can tell you whether multiple Javascripts and CSS templates are actually affecting your site loading time. You may also install the Page Speed Browser-On from your Webmaster Tools account. This browser add-on will help you evaluate the performance of your pages as well as suggestion on how to improve them. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Adds Site Performance Feature to Webmaster
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As the holiday season is rolling in, ecommerce websites are going full force at their SEO, which inevitably includes HTTP/HTTPS pages which need to be optimized in a proper way. I approached Matt Cutts with this question on Twitter and got a very simple answer: Yet, there’s virtually no information anywhere that helps understand the potential challenges for HTTP/HTTPS optimization. Based on my observations and technical knowledge, here’s the top things to watch out for when you are optimizing HTTP/HTTPs – and resolutions for each. 1. Duplicate Content and
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The Google Webmaster Blog has this short post explaining how abusing sites’ comment fields by putting up comment containing links to the poster’s site can actually hurt both sites’ ranking. That is of course if the comments posted are actually not related to the post or gibberish. In short, non legit comments whose objective is to raise the poster’s site ranking. If you have done this before to boost your site’s ranking, and your site was penalized by Google. Here’s what you need to do. If you used this approach in the past and you want to solve this issue, you should have a look at your incoming links in Webmaster Tools. To do so, go to the Your site on the web section and click on Links to your site . If you see suspicious links coming from blogs or other platforms allowing comments, you should check these URLs. If you see a spammy link you created, try to delete it, else contact the webmaster to ask to remove the link. Once you’ve cleared the spammy inbound links you made, you can file a reconsideration request . To avoid comment spam from hitting your sites, here are what you need to do: Disallow anonymous posting. Use CAPTCHAs and other methods to prevent automated comment spamming. Turn on comment moderation. Use the “nofollow” attribute for links in the comment field. Disallow hyperlinks in comments. Block comment pages using robots.txt or meta tags. If you currently own a site with tons of comment spams hitting you daily, you can also follow those steps. And here’s a reminder from Google that we all should have known by now – original content and some search engine-friendly optimization is still the best way to get a better site ranking on Google search, since the web community will only link to your site through your great content. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Says Spamming Other Sites Can Lower Site
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