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Website Marketing Tips #16 - Image Size
By admin | April 26, 2007
The size of your web page images can have a profound effect on your web pages and your rankings. Slow loading web pages can effect your visitors by waiting too long and just closing your page - never seeing your message. Slow loading page will effect the web spiders as well. The search engine spiders have built in timeout algorithms that will stop processing a slow loading web page and move on. If that time out happens, the search engine spider will not process the whole web page - only what it sees.
Timeouts can ruin rankings! One of the biggest factors that causes slow loading web pages is the size and number of the images on that web page. You must find the balance of images to content. Optimize the images to the smallest size without losing image quality. Be aware of using too many images and preloaders (preloaders do help a good deal for mouseovers and other effects). Loading images can take time, so keep them small.
Another factor is the web hosting server your website is on. Watch out for timeouts, you may have other web sites hammering the web server ruining your performance. If that is the case - contact your web hosting company and let them know. Having a slow server or poorly loading web site will impact your rankings. If the search engine spider cannot index the web site, the site will not be found.
JMHO
-=Smitty=-
Topics: Optimization |
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