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Fast site = Better SEO?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the most complicated and a constantly ongoing process that webmasters must tackle regularly. Search engines have grown past the golden age when stuffing your pages with keywords would bring them to the top of Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Not anymore!

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the most complicated and a constantly ongoing process that webmasters must tackle regularly. Search engines have grown past the golden age when stuffing your pages with keywords would bring them to the top of Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Not anymore! Search engines use complex and intelligent algorithms to determine your site’s usefulness and popularity to rank it higher and higher.

SERPs are like an open market. Anyone can compete for the top rank. According to Google, there’s nothing more that you can do to force it to bring your content to the top, but people are forcing the artificial hands of Google and other search engines every day in their favor, and how are they doing this?

Well, they follow the best practices. things that make (common) sense. Like excellent content, value for their time spent on your site or page, the general appearance of your website. The ease of finding the information they seek, and most importantly, how fast your site presents them everything they are looking for on your website.

Yes, speed is also a factor; in fact, a significant factor that will help retain visitors and possible buyers. While I determine whether a fast site = higher SERP rankings or not, I want you to have a look at your browsing habits. Pay attention to the time you usually spend comfortably waiting for a page to load, and the time when you start feeling annoyed and when you decide to abandon the site, never to come back to it?

While you are thinking about the questions I just asked you, let me tell you that Google and other agencies have already researched visitor behavior. According to proven analysis, a visitor will happily wait for 2 to 3 seconds for your site to load and will spend more time exploring your website, blog, or eCommerce store. However, if this time is incremented just once, i.e., to 4 seconds. That same visitor will start feeling uneasy and will ditch your site altogether, never to come back if it starts taking more than 5 seconds to load. So, yes, a fast site is indeed necessary to retain visitors.

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When people start spending time on your website, they are most likely to make a purchase, share, and recommend your website to others as well. Your website will start to get free marketing. This sharing and talking start a snowball rolling effect in the form of popularity. You start getting visitors, and as a result, these intelligent search engines start noticing your website.

Search engines can determine your website’s popularity, and combined with the high quality of content on your site, the time visitors spend there, and the time to load. They will move you from the bottom of the SERPs to the top. This is the point where you will see a big boost in traffic, conversion, and sales on your website. If your pages are loading faster, you will definitely receive VIP treatment on the SERPs.

33% of the traffic comes from search pages, and these are the visitors who are really interested in the information you present, whether that’s a product, service, or information. However, this is where your competition will also start working hard to overtake you.

As I said in the beginning, SEO is an ongoing process. Keep following the best practices and common sense. You will stay on that top spot indefinitely unless your competition learns all the tricks and presents something better than you.

How to increase the speed of your website?

 

We have already answered this for you. Read our post on the importance of caching in WordPress. However, after you have done everything there is to speed up your site, and it is still slow, consider switching to a better hosting solution like GeekBee WordPress hosting, which scales as your traffic grows. You are charged only for the resources you need, so your server won’t fail when your traffic grows. The best thing is you can also decide whether you want automatic WordPress scaling or manual WordPress scaling. Either way, you always get the resources you need for your WordPress site.

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