Google just really loves us bloggers, don’t they? First they took away our Page Rank, now they have announced that the loading time of a website will directly affect it’s search rankings, the price charged for Adsense ads, and even the Page Rank.

I’m not going to pander to Google, but it’s never a bad idea to check to see how long it takes your website to load. WebSiteOptimization.com has a Web Page Analyzer you can use, just type in your URL and in a few minutes you’ll get a report back of how long it takes your page to load at different connnection speeds. I ran my blog Table for Five and found that most of what was on my sidebars (badges, buttons, etc.) was really slowing down the load time for people using slower connections. So I moved those to their own pages and that seemed to help. Just thought everyone would like to know

Google pissed off a lot of people with this last Page Rank update. Blogs were seeing their PR drop once, and then a week later, drop again, and in some cases, drop a third time. And while some blogs did actually gain page rank, like my product review blog MomReviews (look at me, plugging my other blogs) which went from 0 to 2, but it seems like the majority dropped like stones.

Which is leading many people to want to boycott Google altogether. I was surprised to find that the number one way that people are getting to my blog Table for Five (oops, I did it again) is by using a search engine called Super.Info.  It’s a company in Birmingham, England. I did a search for “lead free toys”, and it returned four results. A similar search on Google returned 1,230,000.

But, here’s the really cool thing. I put “Table for Five” into Super.Info, and it returned 53 results and they were all my posts! And, it showed how many comments each post got, and the first names of anyone who subscribed to the comments. Now THAT is really cool. Count me in as a fan of Super.Info!