For Matt Cutts and several Google employees, loading speed of a site could be a factor in rankings of sites in 2010. In an interview made by WebProNews at PubCon Vegas 2009, the Google engineer mentioned this information in the launch of Google Caffeine. Here is an excerpt from an article published on WebProNews.com:
« speed is going to be a huge factor in SEO moving in to 2010. He says that a number of people within Google consider speed to be very important to the web, and they are considering if that should play a role in the rankings of websites in search results.
According to Cutts, speed hasn’t played a role in rankings in the past, but that may very well change. »
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Google has announced changes in the format of dedicated sitemap in Google News. The webmasters of the sites indexed in this search engine have 6 months to change their sitemap. During this period, the 2 formats will be considered by the search engine, but beyond, the old format will no longer be valid. What are the changes to be made on that file, returns on changes in the sitemap …
After approximately 3 months of testing in the sandbox, Google is preparing to launch the latest large gradually update of its algorithm. Announced in August, Google Caffeine is supposed to boost the search engine performance both in terms of indexing and relevance. The URL test has closed its doors, a first data center will house the new algorithm before it can spread across data centers …
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