Have you checked your Google Webmaster Tools lately? If your answer is no, than this can be exciting news for you and you might surprised as it can be of assistance to get higher ranking in Google SERP. This is all about your site speed – the fresh concept to determine site placements which will be affixed to Google’s algorithm in the near future.

Google has gone through many experiments on their search results to measure their intuition about “speed matters” over the Internet. Putting ahead a concept of speed they started to analyze users’ behavior when search takes a long time to load. In each area of  the experiments, Google reviewed speed as a competitive advantage. So, this helped to understand the main concern of search results connected with speed and other features. All the lab results had shown the importance of speed with greater insight of it.  Speed as a key factor for Google is driven by factors such as result return time and website loading in the browser.

Now you can easily measure your site speed average time. This can assist your website to comply with Google’s webmaster guideline and latest regulations for ranking factor. Google calls this feature “Site Performance”.

You can access this feature within your account in the tab “Labs” and then “Site performance.

Below is an example of what you will see:

Do you know what a browser is?

See this video that asks people if they know what a browser is.

A browser and a search engine are not the same thing.

Your browser is what you use to get onto the internet. Visit the following link for a full definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser

The following is a list of some available browsers:

• Internet Explorer
• FireFox
• Opera
• Safari
• Google Chrome

A search engine is what you use to search for websites on the internet.  See the following link for a definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

The following are search engines:

• Google
• Yahoo
• MSN / Bing

Here is an example:

We recently became a Dallas Better Business Bureau Accredited business so we decided to do a short press release about this.

Within about 5 minutes our new press release was listed as the #4 listing in Google for “dallas web design” and the #1 listng in MSN’s new “Bing” Search engine for “dallas web design company”

See the screen shots below for the results:

Dallas Web Design - Press Release #4 Listing

Dallas Web Design - Press Release #1 Listing in Bing.com

The ranking results do not necessarily last for a long time, but it is a great way to get news about your company out to the public and can many times bring in a number of new leads for people looking for your services.