Improve Page Load Times to Improve Page Rank

Last year Google said that load times would become a factor in determining your page rank. I have been toying with Joomla load times trying to speed things up and found two things that are very effective (and easy): In the  >Global Configuration panel under >Server,  enable gzip compression (duh!) Using this, the content the server send the info to the browser compressed so bandwidth isn’t as big of an issue. Install a CSS/Java compression plug-in. I used a plug-in CssJsCompress to ...
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Creating Content that Relevant and Reputable

Matt Cutts at the 2009 WordCamp. In this video he discusses terms like google juice, page rank, and back links, but don't get overwhelmed by the jargon. The central theme is creating content that is relevant and reputable. Worth watching! There are so many nuggets in this. You can skip the first 5 minutes and 30 seconds, but from there to around 19 minutes in, it's great general information to help you understand ranking and content. After 19 minutes, it briefly goes more into WordPress ...
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