There are two main ways that search engines find new content on the web; from user-submitted sitemaps and by sending out their bots to crawl around. With a new move from Bing, it appears they may be slowly moving away from crawling. You can learn more about this from this post on Search Engine Roundtable. […]
DigitalCast Episode 074 – Survey shows that page speed heavily influences user behavior
It’s mostly common sense at this point, but a survey from Unbounce brought to light some interesting stats on how users feel about the loading speed of websites. See the full report on this page on the Unbounce website. Last fall, the folks at Unbounce surveyed 750 consumers and 395 marketers to get their thoughts […]
DigitalCast Episode 073 – An outdated site will turn off 81% of people
According to a recent survey, if your website isn’t kept up to date, 81% of visitors will think less of your brand. See full survey results on this post from Blue Fountain Media. The folks at Blue Fountain Media recently surveyed over 1000 people about various web user experiences and found some interesting things. First, […]
DigitalCast Episode 072 – HTTPS isn’t required to rank on Google
While adding HTTPS support to your site is a wise move for a variety of reasons, it’s not required to have HTTPS in order to rank on Google. You can read more about this discussion over on this post at Search Engine Roundtable. We’ve talked a few times before about the important of using HTTPS […]