SEO Software by Sheer SEO

Ok I’ve been doing SEO since 2003 and ConstantClick has been around since 2005.

In all these years I’ve tried many SEO software companies that promise the most “accurate” rankings. I’ve been dissapointed every time until now.

SheerSEO has their stuff together. Great rankings, Fast Support, and Best of all Accurate rankings every time.

They even offer support over Skype which I love!

It’s not an SEO suggestion tool, it’s an SEO marketing tool that doesn’t tell you what to do, but does tell you where your ranking, tracks your links and much more. I highly suggest you check it out. If you’re not happy with it, they’ll cancel without question.

SEO Tips on Optimizing for Speed

Online marketers have spent the last 24 months analyzing the analytics of web marketing techniques. You need to do this in order to learn more about what works and what doesn’t as well as learning about user behaviour and trends in order to improve your website.

Website optimization is often used as a term that refers to the content that a user will be greeted with such as the homepage text, graphics, layout etc and the analysis of how well these features are performing will then ensue. The idea behind this type of research is to create a more user-friendly site that generates more traffic with its engaging and relevant content.

Now, while it is vital that we continue to do these studies, it is also important not to forget the need for speed!

In 2011, everyone is in a hurry! Whether you are in a rush to get to work while stuck in rush hour traffic, you need to pick your kids up from school but you can’t find where you left your keys or you are rushing around the supermarket grabbing your fruit and veg like a crazy person! Everyone wants to be somewhere five minutes ago so when you optimize a website – make sure it loads up and runs fast.

Behavior Controlled by Speed?

User behavior is largely determined by site speed and everyone from Bing and Yahoo! to Google and Amazon has backed up this theory with figures that show the faster a website runs; the more popular it is. The users experience is heightened, the conversion rates are therefore higher and the engagement levels are increased – Interestingly, these are often the top three aims of marketers looking to improve an online company’s bottom line…

So, now we know that speed has a direct link to how well your users perceive your website – how do you optimize your site for speed?

Firstly, you have to know how fast your site is running and you can do this by using the free tools provided on webpagetest.org as well as the Yahoo! YSlow add on feature provided by Firefox. This will show you how fast your site is currently running with a grade of A-F, provided to you with info on why your site is so slow and then they will make recommendations on how to improve your speed.

All you have to do is take the action they recommend to you!

You can add to the list of site-slowing problems by checking out your analytics and A/B testing. This will show you how users are responding to the changes, which is always important.

* Website Speed Tip! *

A great tip for speeding up a website is to condense and combine multiple CSS or JavaScript files into one. However, always ensure that you then test how well this is welcomed by your users as speeding up a site is pointless if your users don’t like what you have done to it!

How do you ensure that your website runs as fast as possible?

Rank Checker Tool

I recently discovered a pretty cool rank checker over at SEOette.com They provide white labeling service and weekly updates on how your site is doing. They are quick to respond to new feature requests and very good at customer support. I suggest taking them for a test drive if you want to try out a new and fun tool.

For the past few years Internet marketers have been learning about analytics, A/B testing, user behavior, re-targeting and much more.

Website Speed – Very Important

These days when site owners and marketers talk about optimization they are usually referring to link building, meta title tags, optimized content, alt tags, etc… All these variables are a necessary part of the SEO mix.

Recent studies published by Google, Bing, Amazon, Yahoo and other reveal a direct connection between site-speed and user behavior. And Google is all about the user, so yes your site speed absolutely affects your rankings in the search engines. All things being equal, if Google or other search engines are given two sites, the faster site will have the advantage.

Read my post about which site speed tools you can use to improve your site speed.

And if you have any questions about your speed, fill in the form to the right or email me- jp (at) constantclick.com

Webiste Speed is more important than ever.

The race is on. A faster site will do several very important things for your site – your company – and your bank account

1. It will make your customers stay on your site longer.
2. Decrease your bounce rate.
3. Increase leads & sales.
4. Increase your Google Rankings.
5. Make your customers happier all around with the ease of use.

So here are some really cool tools I like to test my site speed with, they are in order by how often I use them:

1. www.webpagetest.org (amazing data and advice + sweet graphics)
2. http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com
3. http://tools.pingdom.com
4. www.whichloadsfaster.com (really cool)

If you have any more tools you think I should add to the list let me know in the comments or email jp (at) constantclick.com