Google just announced a site service called Page Speed which can accelarate your site by 25 to 60 percent. The new service will function like a content delivery network for your entire site: Google will fetch your pages, optimize them, speed them up and then deliver them. It is much like Cloudflare which some Ashford developers use. I an not sure I recommend either service yet, but it is a harbinger that speed is critical to the success of your site.
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How to improve mobile SEO
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Tim Bednar July 14, 2011 » Add the first comment.
If you are using Pro or any Premium theme for your site, you get what I call an instant mobile experience. The mobile version of your site is delivered to modern smart phones: iPhone, Android, WebOS, Window Phone 7 and Blackberry. Ashford follows the SEO guidance provided by Google’s John Mueller, John Mueller – @Paul [...]
How to use Google’s Web Font API with Ashford
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Tim Bednar December 7, 2010 » Add the second comment.
This version of the Axis theme uses Google’s Font API to display a non-standard web font, Nobile, for headlines. I have hesitated with font replacement until browsers starting more widely supporting the font-face tag. What finally made me use it is Google’s super simple API and the breadth of fonts that Google’s CDN makes available. Here [...]
How to make Google Analytics better with this secret feature
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Tim Bednar May 4, 2009 » Add the first comment.
I use Google Analytics to track the performance of this site and many others. The problem is that I wanted more information on how people were referred into this site. Specifically, I wanted to know the effectiveness of the link s I have in the code (e.g. to Support). The solution is to use the [...]