Website Speed – Is It That Important?

Website Speed - Is It That Important?

Have you ever visited a website and had to sit and wait and wait and wait for it to load? We all have, it’s frustrating and more than likely you’ll end up leaving. Think about it, if you won’t stay on a slow website, likely your website visitors won’t either. Also remember, your website is often the first impression they have of you and your business. So just as looking professional is important, so is your website speed.

Search engines also consider website load speeds in how they rank your website. So if your website is slow to load, whatever the reason for it, it will effect your SEO ranking as well not just your visitor retention rate. Site speed is especially a big factor in site ranking for mobile where speed is everything. 

So what is a good load time? Three to four seconds is acceptable but ideally you want under 2 seconds. Anything  longer and you will definitely see a negative impact. There are tools you can use to test your site speed to determine exact measurements.

There are a number of factors that go into how fast or slow  your website may load. Hosting, software, picture sizes, efficiency of code and more. Keeping site visitors on your website and having a highly ranked website are very important to your website’s success. If your website is loading slowly, feel free to contact me to discuss how we can increase your site load speed. 

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Why do I need SEO?

Why do I need SEO?

Why do you need SEO or Search Engine Optimization? That’s a great question. So let me ask you some questions first. How many websites do you think there is on the internet? Thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, billions perhaps? Let’s just say there’s a whole lot of them! So when you need to find a website, what do you do? You go to Google (or Bing or some other search engine) and you search right? And which ones do you click  on? Probably the ones that come up right there on the first page right? But have you ever looked down to see how many pages your search might bring up? Guarantee you it’s a LOT.

So think of it this way. Let’s say you have a website that sells “Cat Toys”. And you have 100 competitors that also sell cat toys. And then there’s 50 bloggers that blog about cat toys. And there’s 25 pet owners that have websites about their cat’s favorite cat toys. So  now you’ve got 175 websites about “Cat Toys”. When you search, only about 10 or so results show up on that first page. Now your average searcher will only ever look at the websites on the first page of the search. So what happens if you website selling cat toys is on the LAST page of the search? Exactly….nothing happens…no one ever sees your website!

So, yes, SEO is extremely important. What exactly is SEO or Search Engine Optimization? SEO is the process by which various tools and actions can increase your website ranking so you show higher up in a search. The thing about SEO is that there’s not one quick and easy way to be “first on Google”, unlike many so-called “marketing experts” may try to have you believe. No SEO is a complex and ever-changing field. What worked yesterday, may  not work next month. And why is that? Because the search engines are constantly changing, and they way the process data changes.

It’s one thing to just put a website up on the internet, it’s a whole separate thing to make sure that your website is FOUND by the right people at the right time. And that’s where I can help you, contact me now to discuss SEO for your website!

 

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