...Webmaster Guidelines Best practices to help Google find, crawl, and index your site Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise impacted by an algorithmic or manual spam action. If a site has been affected by a spam action, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites. Design and content guidelines Technical guidelines Quality guidelines When your site is ready: Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/. Submit a Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages. Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online. Design and content guidelines Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link. Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map has an extremely large number of links, you may want to break the site map into multiple pages. Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number. Create...
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...1-800-530-3992 Automated Frontend Optimization (FEO) With Blaze Why the frontend bottleneck is the most important performance issue today and what can be done to alleviate it. Introduction t used to be that the answer to most Website performance problems was either to add more hardware or reengineer the backend application code. For most sites, the backend is now the small part of the problem. Pages are generated by the backend quickly but downloading and rendering the frontend code and resources takes a long time. Research shows that for many popular sites it’s the frontend that accounts for over 90% of a users wait time. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) help address part of this problem by reducing network latency. However, even larger performance gains can be achieved through Frontend Optimization (FEO) techniques that streamline the Web page HTML code and resources. I Trends Driving the Frontend Bottleneck A web page’s performance can be split into backend and frontend. Backend time includes generating the page’s HTML and resources. The frontend time includes downloading the resources and processing them in the Browser. There are four important trends making the frontend an important performance issue today and potentially even more important in the years to come: 1. Rich content. Viewing a chart of size vs. time, it goes up and to the right. Since 1995, the average size of a page has grown over 35x, and the number of objects per page has grown 28x. Larger, link...
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