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Is speed really still important with high-speed connections?
I've been thinking about this issue for a long time now. In fact, I used to argue that doing things like minifying HTML did not result in large enough speed gains to be noticeable, but could in fact slow down a site's maintenance schedule as the designers and writers would have to un-minify things just to fix a problem or change a page. But I've changed my mind. I now think that even these small gains are important and this article explains why.
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Now that Google is starting to penalize websites for over-optimization, you should really stop fiddling with your existing pages and start writing more content. Learn how to know if a page is over-optimized and how you can get out of a search engine referral slump with one step.
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