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Sites undergoing SEO:

www.vacancesdetriskell.com Do you fancy renting a gite in France for your holiday?
When we began, the site had a Google page rank of zero, now it has a Google page rank of 2.

Useful and recommended sites:

itscales.com How fast does your site load? This site will tell you. If it takes more than 2 seconds, you will lose customers. "Download time rules the web" says Jakob Nielsen (see Useability). If you have difficulty believing that, see this BBC news item. We have the skills to optimise your site for download speed but also...
Consider how helpful to the user is your design itself. If the user can't find what he wants straight away, you site is history - see this other BBC news item.
But again, how fast is your host? Look on webperf and see if they are listed. If they are not, ask yourself: Why not? Could it be that they don't dare put themseves up for public comparison because they know they would be shown up for the rubbish they are? Now consider our hosting.