As noted previously, Google is using site load time to help rank sites. I put together a quick list of further resources to help get everyone rolling on optimizing site speed for SEO.
Making a website load fast requires the help of everyone on your web team. The person making the content can have a huge impact through the kinds of content and preparation he or she puts into getting things online. Your site designer can be a critical link in making the entire site template either fast or slow–sometimes in just a few lines of code here or there. And then your heavy-tech geeks can really speed it up.
Here are a few external resources to help each of these areas make the site faster. Read More
Tear down the wild mouse. The wild mouse just runs around, looking for the next bit of cheese. It has a simple observation system in place: a nose that smells cheese. It has an equally simple action-taking system: run towards the smell of cheese.
If your organization feels like riding on the back of a wild mouse, maybe you can use the three kinds of measurement mentioned in this presentation to understand the past, prepare for the present and innovate into the future.
All by itself this probably doesn’t make much sense.
Here are the notes: Read More
It’s official. Google is including site speed as an aspect of how it determines who gets to the coveted “#1 on Google” spot. This has been coming for some time and really shouldn’t be a huge surprise to any of my readers.
Here are some things you can do right away to help make your site load faster. Read More
Everyone who takes part in the information economy should have a librarian or six among their watch-list. Librarians have been dealing with issues of taxonomy, location, storage, usability, findability, distribution and audience segmentation since sometime around the 3rd century B.C.
Being focused on the nature of information itself, librarians sit in an interesting quasi-neutral place for figuring out what to do with all the data that washes down the internet every minute. There are a ton of super active, highly digital, info-junkie librarians out there to expand your mind. I’ll suggest one for this Follow Friday. Read More
Thoughtfaucet President/Janitor Gahlord Dewald will be presenting at the BuzzRE Orange County event on Thursday, April 29 alongside others including Dustin Luther, Linsey Planeta, Stacey Harmon and Dale Chumbley.
The event looks to be a jam-packed day of serious social media and web strategy content. Gahlord’s presentation and notes will likely find their way onto this site when it’s all done, but if you’re in Orange County you should definitely check out the full event.
Register for the BuzzRE OC here.
Jeremiah Owyang, in his blog post about his 2010 goals, mentions organizational social readiness. He says “80% of a companies success is getting their organization ready through the right roles, processes, policies, measurement.”
In a lot of ways this isn’t any different than non-social organizational readiness. The aspects listed are the core of what an organization does to stay functional, regardless of whether or not they engage with social media.
Social media, however, provides a distraction from these core tasks. Owyang notes this, crediting tools with only 20% of an organization’s success. It’s the whole reality of knowing that a hammer doesn’t come with a pre-built house–you need to know how and when to use it.
Let’s take a look at each of four core activities Jeremiah Owyang credits for the bulk of business success:
Who is going to run your social media operations? What sort of skills will be valuable in that person? Read More
For more information on the h1 tag, refer to this post in which Gahlord Dewald answers a question about what to do if you don’t have room for an h1 tag on your site.
The best way to find out about Thoughtfaucet is to read some of the articles below. You can also peruse the News articles.
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