| Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | bewilderedness | 4/9/10 3:42 PM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES / NO YES My site's URL is: multiple sites Description (including timeline of any changes made): Hi guys, after reading this new announcement I suspect I have sites hit with this new ranking fa |
| Re: Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | squibble | 4/9/10 3:46 PM | This is what google says on that post you have read - 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 implementatio |
| Re: Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | Autocrat | 4/9/10 4:03 PM | Following ...squibble... - and to ensure the point is made ... the Speed Factor was only in use on the Google.com searches - so if it was having an affect, you would only have seen the effects on the G.com searches - all others would have been "norma |
| Re: Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | bewilderedness | 4/9/10 6:01 PM | Thanks for your input, guys. Here is one site: http://tinyurl.com/y36fp7u There are several more, all lost 9/10th of G* traffic on the same day. Here is what G* says about this site: "On average, pages in your site take 10.8 seconds to load (updat |
| Re: Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | 53north | 4/9/10 8:16 PM | Those really fragile connections are coming back with the roll out of touchphones, pads, netbooks etc.. |
| Re: Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | Autocrat | 4/10/10 5:32 AM | Well - at most, for me .... including hte redirect ... that URL took 4 secs. ? "... There are several more, all lost 9/10th of G* traffic on the same day. ..." Ah - now things get more interesting. All the same type of site - Y/N? All using the sa |
| Re: Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | bloggerwidgets | 4/10/10 8:44 AM | I also have a similar problem . My Ranking Dropped yesterday and Webmaster Tools says that my blog's page speed is 12.8 seconds and it is slower than 96% of the websites. My host had gone down at the time of the check(i think so).. I used to top(#1 |
| Re: Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | Autocrat | 4/10/10 8:46 AM | If you wish to point to your own topic as a point of correlation/related issue - that's fine. But Please, do Not post your own issues in someone elses topic. |
| Re: Site hit with "Slowness Ranking Factor" due to server downtime - what now? | bloggerwidgets | 4/10/10 9:39 AM | sorry for that. :) i think that my issue might be related. but not sure if its page speed or something else. |