Google AdWords Adds Landing Page Load Time Metric To Reports Starting Mid-June

As expected, Google has announced that landing page load time will become a quality score factor in Google AdWords starting mid-June. In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword's landing page. Here is a picture ...
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May. 8, 2008 at 6:02pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Page Load Time Now A Real Factor In The AdWords Quality Score

Google announced that the page load time metric is now a live factor that will influence your quality score and your minimum bids for your AdWords ads. We first heard that page load time was coming to the Google quality score in early March. Google then provided advertisers with metric in their AdWords ...

Jun. 19, 2008 at 8:09am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2008

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Mar. 6, 2008 at 4:07pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Adds Page Load Time To Quality Score Algorithm

A WebmasterWorld thread tipped both Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Roundtable (that's me) off on the fact that Google has added an additional quality score factor to the AdWords ranking algorithm. The new factor is page load time. If your destination URL is a very slow loading page, then Google ...

Mar. 5, 2008 at 9:33am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google's Debated Penalties & Filters Roundup

Over the years, there have been dozens if not hundreds, of theories on possible Google penalties and filters being used in the Google ranking algorithms. Joe Whyte provides an excellent roundup of many of those filters and penalties that the search forums have debated over the years. I am not getting ...
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Feb. 6, 2007 at 10:10am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Month: June 2008 Search News, In Review

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Jul. 7, 2008 at 4:04pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google Search History Expands, Becomes Web History

Google's Search History feature, which was switched on as a default option for many Google searchers in February, has now been renamed Web History to reflect how it has expanded to track what Google users do as they surf the web. It's a huge move for Google and raises anew privacy issues. Below, a ...
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Apr. 19, 2007 at 6:16pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Month: May 2008 Search News, In Review

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Jun. 1, 2008 at 10:19am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Month: March 2008 Search News, In Review

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Apr. 7, 2008 at 2:22am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Load Time Confirmed As AdWords Quality Score & New Category Exclusion Feature

Google has confirmed that they will be adding page load time as a quality score metric in the near future. The feature will go live in the "next few weeks," but it won't impact your quality score right away. A month after the metric goes live, Google will then implement the grade into the ...

Mar. 7, 2008 at 9:00am Eastern by Barry Schwartz