Google's head of Web Spam, Matt Cutts, along with Vanessa Fox of NinebyBlue and Derrick Wheeler of Microsoft took thorough dives into a number of sites. The session was well coverd on Twitter, and in live form by Barry Schwartz at SERoundtable. Google's Matt Cutts and Vanessa Fox of NinebyBlue on the Site Review Panel Matt Cutts and Vanessa Fox on the Site Review Panel (photo credit: davecolorado.com) A few points in particular stood out and are worthy of coverage: Blocking Internet Archive may be a Negative Signal Matt Cutts noted that spammers very frequently block archive.
Org from crawling/storing their pages and few taiwan email list reputable sites engage in this. Thus, it's a potential spam signal to search engines. SEO Theory has a good writeup on when and why there may be legitimate reasons to do this, but webmasters seeking to avoid scrutiny may want to take heed. _ Web Page Load Time can Positively Influence Rankings Maile Ohye actually mentioned this at SMX East in New York, but Matt Cutts repeated it again today.
In a nutshell - while slow page load times won't negatively impact your rankings, fast load times may have a positive effect. This comes on a day when the Google Chrome blog introduced their new SPDY research project. I'm particularly happy about this news, because it's also true that load times have a positive second-order effect on SEO. Pingomatic recently published some excellent research on load times from Akamai noting the expectations of users for faster web browsing have doubled in the past 2 years.
Today, during the Interactive Site Review Session
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