Pagerank is *not* affected by site speed. Google serps are generated under consideration of more than 200 factors and one of them is pagerank and another one is site speed. Matt Cutts said that site speed has a tiny weight for the serps and you rankings will only drop if your site is *really* slow. It does not matter if your competitors site will be returned and rendered within 100ms and yours need 200ms. But back to topic, if a request for your site needs more than a second, which is quite likely regarding to the datastore issues, than your rankings might drop a little bit. But it could also happen nothing too because google detects that your site runs on their service (you cannot edit crawl rate in the webmaster tools).
It would be great if we can get some clarification if there are other effects for the Google-Search except the missing availability to edit the crawl rate (which is quite idiotic, because it is no normal google service: I am the person who is paying for each request and not google.) Best Regards Philip On 10 Jun., 10:59, David Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering how the ongoing DataStore issue is going to > affect page rank since PageRank is going to be affected by the sites > speed. > > I put as much as possible into memcache for my site but my site's > speed has dropped from being faster than 70% of sites to being faster > than 50% of sites according to Google Webmaster Tools. > > There is a few little tricks that I can do client side but don't think > I can optimize my backend code anymore since its a simple get data and > display. > > David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
