7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 10

June 25th, 2008

Loading and Links

Search engines are important to think about when you are creating your web page and sites. However you shouldn’t compromise on other things. You need to make certain that your site is easily downloaded, especially through all of your links. If the person sitting at home can’t access the site with any speed they will get upset, angry and then just go to another website. If this happens you are definitely going to lose your consumer base. There is something you might be missing if you are not paying enough attention to links. There are free links that you can obtain to help get more traffic. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 9

June 24th, 2008

Affording Your Site

Certainly getting your web page designed so that you have faster download times is important. There are other things to consider in this though. There are faster servers out there that will cost a bit more than your regular server. If you can afford the dedicated server in which you have your own IP address you are going to have better results. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 8

June 23rd, 2008

Databases

We spoke about getting your databases streamlined in our last blog, but let’s continue with that idea for a minute. When you have a database that is cluttered you need to fix it. But how will you go about doing that? There are helpful tools such as WP Super Cache and MySQL databases tools. These tools help you to see where your database may be too much to handle and how to streamline it for better results. Certain searches can be saved and reused so that your database is smaller as well. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 7

June 22nd, 2008

CSS

CSS is another tool that you can use to get your page created and help you get those consumers. CSS can be moved into a separate file to help you reduce the coding needed on the pages. If you have tables or if the page is just a table rather than regular text, moving the CSS codes can drastically increase your load time. The browser works so that you load the tables last. When you switch from tables to the CSS coding your page will load faster and less time is spent trying to get a big file loaded. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 6

June 21st, 2008

Use of Images

Some images on your web pages can be very handy, however you don’t want to use too many as this will slow down your load time. It is important to use images only when you need them most, such as showing products to help along a description. The images are going to affect your bandwidth and need to be a certain size. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 5

June 20th, 2008

Getting Better Load Time

There are seven ways you could get your website pages to load with more speed. These ways could be the difference between losing sales and making lots of money. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 4

June 19th, 2008

Understanding Slow Sites

If you have a website there are a few things you should be considering. Any website that is going to have a customer waiting an inordinate amount of time is going to lose you customers. This is because they want to get on the site and find the information they want quickly. If they can go to a different site to get the same product chances are they will always head to the site promoting better speed. This in turn means your sales are going to suffer. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 3

June 18th, 2008

The Fourth Factor

Looking at faster servers as a good way to get a better ranking from Google is one way that you might increase your sales. To understand how this might work we’ve looked at three other factors. This fourth factor speaks to AdWords. AdWords is an aspect that looks at the load time for pages. It will also calculate your quality score. If AdWords has a bad experience in getting things to load you could get a lower score. So it’s appropriate to think that the organic search could also affect your ranking. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 2

June 17th, 2008

The Three Factors

In our last blog we spoke about Matt Cutts from Google and the need for a faster server. There are three aspects of our question that should be considered, in which the news didn’t address. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Ways to Increase Sales By Increasing Speed - Part 1

June 16th, 2008

There are plenty of questions you might be asking yourself about your website. You need to know how to make it the best website for people to find so that your sales will be increased, but how would you go about that? We have looked into several theories about faster servers. For example if you have faster server would the ranking increase on your site so that you could get more traffic? Or are there any advantages at all to paying for that faster server?

A news release in 2006 by Matt Cutts a Google representative tried to answer these very questions for website owners. According to Matt Cutts, if your pages on the website can load then you will be able to get a ranking. Having a faster server doesn’t mean your ranking is going to increase, even if your pay is loading in a half a second as opposed to 5 seconds.

However, more research by our team suggests that there are actually three factors you need to consider regarding speed that hasn’t been answered yet. These factors could be the difference between you getting a higher ranking with a faster server.