How I Slashed The Load Time For My Website By 200-300%...And So Can You, For Yours!

Written by Roger J. Burke


Here is my latest article. It may be freely used in ezines, on websites or in e-books, as long asrepparttar Resource Box is left intact.

I would appreciate notification of where it was used, and if possible, a copy ofrepparttar 134615 ezine or newsletter that it was used in. Please send notification mailto:webmaster@online-wealth.com

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How often have you waited, impatiently, for your browser to pull inrepparttar 134616 next website? Too many times, probably.

Many of these slow-poke sites may be worth seeing, but how long are you prepared to wait? Probably no more than 7 to 10 seconds, which is what most say.

Now, you've maybe seen or read a lot about improvingrepparttar 134617 loading time for your website. And, you may even be saying to yourself now, "Oh, no...not another guru trying to tell me what to do!" Well, inrepparttar 134618 first place, I'm no guru (very few can legitimately claim that accolade) and secondly, I cannot tell you what to do.

I can only relate what I did, andrepparttar 134619 improvement I achieved. It's up to you to do something, if you want to...that's your choice! ;-)

Firstly,repparttar 134620 website in question - http://submissionjunction.com - used to load, at off-peak times, on my computer (an ageing 133 mHz, P1, 32MEG RAM, 56k modem) in around 15-20 seconds.

To make things crystal clear, I'll define load time thus:

Beingrepparttar 134621 elapsed time fromrepparttar 134622 moment thatrepparttar 134623 ENTER key is depressed torepparttar 134624 moment thatrepparttar 134625 first information appears onrepparttar 134626 screen (purists would argue that load time is actually more precise, and I agree. For surfers onrepparttar 134627 web, however, this definition will suffice).

Note that I'm not countingrepparttar 134628 appearance of BACKGROUND information within that elapsed time, e.g a tiled .gif, although some may; BACKGROUND, after all, is not strictly information, although it does indicate activity.

Now, a load time of 15-20 seconds is way too slow, and with peak hours and heavy traffic, I ran increased risk that people clicked away.

I wanted a load time of 4-6 seconds in off-peak and no more than 10 seconds duringrepparttar 134629 very heaviest traffic times.

This is how I did it:

1. The banner and headlines, that I want to appear onrepparttar 134630 screen first, are placed immediately afterrepparttar 134631 BODY statement, and before anything else. This isrepparttar 134632 information I want prospects to see quickly, so that I can pique their curiosity and perhaps retain their interest.

2. Formatting, at this stage, is confined to one small TABLE and centeringrepparttar 134633 information: one banner, one small animation and three headlines. This is important; there is no fancy or additional coding at this point.

How I Got Number One Position In Yahoo/Google and Altavista...On My First Attempt!

Written by Roger J. Burke


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It's not my intention to boast - far from it! But, it came as a pleasant surprise to me recently when I managed to achieve what most people say is impossible: get on page one of Yahoo/Google and Altavista *and* get top position for my keywords, both on my first attempt.

I didn't use any tricks, I have no hidden links - in fact I have almost no links to speak of - I didn't stuff my metatags or ALT parameters with junk, and I didn't generate hundreds of gateway pages.

The most important thing I did was to develop a unique product for a particular niche.

And, I did that only after researchingrepparttar 134615 net and making sure that nobody else hadrepparttar 134616 same thing. There *are* some similar products, but none withrepparttar 134617 exact same features. Hence, my particular product *is* unique. It took a long time to develop (three years), but it was a laborious task (the product will *never* be finished really, and it is now my task to maintain it).

Withrepparttar 134618 product ready, I then designed and codedrepparttar 134619 web pages, building an entire domain around this one complete idea. I didn't want any extraneous issues or offers to detract fromrepparttar 134620 domain's raison d'etre; I would use *other* domains to promote my affiliate programs and other products.

The design is simple torepparttar 134621 point of Spartan;repparttar 134622 coding is so basic, a beginner could do it easily. Just as well, as my knowledge of CGI scripting, Javascript andrepparttar 134623 like is abysmal. However, I wanted *nothing* to get inrepparttar 134624 way of my message and what I wanted to market.

Before developingrepparttar 134625 code, I wrote out my sales letter in Word, doingrepparttar 134626 layout as I wrote, working outrepparttar 134627 headlines, and gettingrepparttar 134628 look and feel of my pagerepparttar 134629 way I wanted, before I converted it to HTML.

Whenrepparttar 134630 sales letter and basic coding was done, I then turned torepparttar 134631 TITLE, DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS withinrepparttar 134632 HTML code.

There has been a lot written about those three and no doubt there will continue to be much said. I don't profess to be expert at all, but I do know this:

(1) The TITLE must be relevant and must make linguistic and logical sense when read by a human. If it contains two or three powerful keywords, so muchrepparttar 134633 better. TITLE length, I think, should adhere to that required by Yahoo.

(2) The DESCRIPTION must be relevant also and should contain your most powerful keywords, but should not merely repeat your title. Similarly, its length should not exceed that required by Yahoo. The very first headline ofrepparttar 134634 sales letter should be *exactly*repparttar 134635 same asrepparttar 134636 DESCRIPTION.

(3) The KEYWORDS used must appear inrepparttar 134637 sales letter, but only in a certain ratio torepparttar 134638 total words on a page. Depending upon who you read, that ratio can vary from 3% to 10% (my home page for this product has about a 4% ratio). Also, from material I've read, opinion is roughly split 50/50 about whether keywords should be in upper or lower case. I've opted to use all upper case, separated by commas with no spaces.

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