New rank factor: site speed

Matt McGee mentioned about news from Google. Google announced that there is a new factor which has influence on your website rank. Of course Matt Cutts says that importance is not quite high, but with my experience I can: this is a bull shit.

Honestly this will be very important factor. Why?

Users like very much fast pages. Really. Page speed is very important on ecommerce. For example if your online shop is loading, loading and loading your potential client will treat you for your competitor. Even more, if your clients somehow stay on your slow site, there is a very big possibility that faster or later will leave your page. This is one of the biggest issue connected with bounce rate.

Rumors say that this factor is already in use. In my opinion, site speed will be noticeable on really hardcore keywords where everyone uses blackhat seo.

In next post I will show, what you should do with your site to make it faster.

PageRank Update!

Today will be short entry. Probably you noted that your “green bar” enlarged or reduced. Everything started on 1st April. Yup durring the Fools Day (Prima Aprilis) :). Ironic, isn’t it?

It was second update of PR in this year. The first one was at begining of January.

For me it was very good update. Most of my websites got higher rank.

How about yours?

PHP: Ping your sitemaps XML. Free Script

Writing in english (systematically) is really diffucult for me. I thought it will be much easier. Anyway, today I want to show my PHP class for pinging XML sitemaps. I use this script everytime I write on my other blogs or websites.

I’ve run many test for indexing tons of spam, websites. And I tell you in secret that you can index everything with sitemaps XML. One time with, my friend, we created a sneaky XML with URLs for comparing cell phones. You know – every possible combination. Effect? Amaizing! Over 1 million indexed pages in 3 months! So pinging is very powerful weapon!

How to use it?

<?php
require_once 'sitemapPing.class.php';
$s = new sitemapPing( 'URL_TO_YOUR_SITEMAP_XML' );

$s->ping();
echo $s->showResponse();
?>

The last line in which we echo the response from server is optional. Everytime when you ping your XML file with sitemap you gor pisitive response.

Script is pinging:

• google,
• yahoo!,
• bing,
• ask.com,
• and moreover.com

If you got any questions, fell free to ask in comments :).

[download]

Enjoy!