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Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation
lee1 writes "Google is now taking into account how fast a page loads in calculating its PageRank. In their own words: '[W]e're including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests. ... our users place a lot of value in speed — that's why we've decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings. ... While site speed is a new signal, it doesn't carry as much weight as the relevance of a page. Currently, fewer than 1% of search queries are affected by the site speed signal in our implementation and the signal for site speed only applies for visitors searching in English on Google.com at this point.' Considering the increasing dilution of high-ranking results by endless series of plagiarizing 'blogs,' brainless forums, and outright scam sites, anything that further reduces the influence of the quality of the content is something I would rather not have. Not that Google asked me."
Google Bot is always indexing your site. I push 8-10Gb of traffic a month (yeah I know it's not a lot, thanks for informing me) and of that, 1Gb is Google. I don't know why Google constantly loads my pages even though they don't change that much, but Google does it.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Half the people I heard from said that if they scroll all the way to the bottom they can read the answers for free, and the other half say this doesn't work. This confused me for the longest time until I finally figured out the answer.
Expertsexchange allows you to scroll down to the bottom to get a free answer the first time you visit their page, then gives your browser a cookie saying that you have gotten your free answer, and won't show you any more. So if you want to ensure that you can always scroll to the bottom, you simply have to block cookies from them and you are good to go.
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You can associate your site with a Google account and override their heuristic.
Finally! A year of moderation! Ready for 2019?
I thought it checked the "http-referer" - so if you clicked via google, you'll get the answer at the bottom.
But if you copy the URL and paste it on a browser, you don't get to see the answer at the bottom.
Personally what annoys me more than expertsexchange are the journal sites. For those I don't get the answer at the bottom or anywhere, even though it shows up in the Google search results.
Used to be Google policy that a site is not allowed to show different content to Google from what it shows to users - they smacked BMW Germany down for that. But now I see lots of sites getting away with that, and no, those journal sites don't get fooled by the user agent thing.
Perhaps they pay Google to be allowed to do it.
Yes, but if only there was some open standard protocol he could use to tell Google how often to index which parts of his site, which Google implemented...
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak