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The importance of page load speed for SEO

Published on 20 December 2012 by Oliver Yeates in Advice, SEO

This is a topic which has been around since April 2010, when Google announced it was using your website’s load speed to influence your rankings in its search engine.

Essentially Google state that they are “including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.”

Google consider the load speed of you website a vital element of a good user experience and therefore measure your website’s speed as part of its ranking criteria (essentially an equally built website (in terms of content) may rank higher if it loads more quickly than yours) (more…)

2012, the time to go mobile…

Published on 23 August 2012 by Oliver Yeates in Advice, Apps, Blog, Facebook, Mobile, Stats, Twitter

The use of mobile has grown hugely over the last few years, the stats below show just how important mobile is swiftly becoming to businesses and brands.

Stats:

It’s estimated that by 2014 mobile internet usage will overtake the use of desktop internet.
Of Twitter’s 165 million users, 50% use twitter mobile.
29% of mobile users are willing to scan a mobile tag to get coupons.
Over 30% of all restaurant searches are made on a mobile.
Mobile coupons get ten times the redemption rate of regular coupons.
86% of mobile internet users will use their device whilst watching television.
QR code usage increased by 4549% between 2010 and 2011.
There are 200 million Youtube views a day on mobile devices.
Two thirds of mobile device owners shop on their phones.
Over 1/3 of Facebook’s 700 million users use Facebook mobile.
65% of mobile device owners use it to find a business and make an in-store purchase.
88% of local information seekers take action within 24 hours of a mobile search.
Around 500,000 businesses are running click-to-call ads on mobile devices.
Half of all local searches are made on a mobile device.

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Sources: Digital Buzz Blog, Youtube