I was just reading some information about Google Caffeine and it looks like it will probably put a wrench into lots of affiliates content creation and link building plans. What are you're thoughts on it?
Apparently page load speed might be a factor in rank. I hope so because my site loads fast and my ranks can only improve.
As far as developers are concerned, its nothing new. We always knew that speed was a relevant factor, that relevancy was crucial, and so on.. Also, doesn't mean we are going to have to start using those horrible code crunchers that generate the infamous spaghetti code. If we keep our code size within reason, and if you deliver compliant usable accessible code, we shouldn't have a problem.
Here's some info about it you might want to check out... http://marketingbymouth.com/19057/rollout-soon-for-google-affeine-scammers-beware/ I think it will come out pretty soon. I.E. The next week or few days.
This is basic outline what they will be looking for... The categories we tested the new search engine on are as follows: speed, accuracy, temporal relevancy, and index size. Here’s how we define those: Speed: How fast can the new search engine load results? Accuracy: Which set of results is more accurate to the search term? Temporal Relevancy: Is one version of search better at capturing breaking news? Index Size: Is it really more comprehensive than the last version of Google?
This is the one that we should worried about... New Google relies more on keywords: SEO professionals, your job just got a lot harder. The algorithm’s definitely different. It has more reliance on keyword strings to produce better results.
a small quote from Google itself "Make the website for users not search engines", which probably says it all. That alone means reasonable load times, relevancy etc
Well, I think that Google Caffeine and Google Personalized Search will impact the SEO Arena a lot.. Today I receive this email... judge for yourself ..."What is Google Personalized Search? Google announced in a blog post (written by Bryan Horling and Matthew Kulick, Software Engineer and Product Manager at Google respectively). In explaining how Google Personalize Search works, they mentioned: “For example, since I always search for [recipes] and often click on results from epicurious.com, Google might rank epicurious.com higher on the results page the next time I look for recipes. Other times, when I'm looking for news about Cornell University's sports teams, I search for [big red]. Because I frequently click on www.cornellbigred.com, Google might show me this result first, instead of the Big Red soda company or others.†How Did It Change? Bryan Horling and Matthew Kulick, Software Engineer and Product Manager at Google respectively went on: “Previously, we only offered Personalized Search for signed-in users, and only when they had Web History enabled on their Google Accounts. What we're doing today is expanding Personalized Search so that we can provide it to signed-out users as well. This addition enables us to customize search results for you based upon 180 days of search activity linked to an anonymous cookie in your browser.†For the direct link to the blog you can go here http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/personalized-search-for-everyone.html. "....
There are following effect done through the google caffeine. 1)Speed,2)Accuracy,3)Temporal Relevancy,4)Index Size. search engine looks same as previous search engine but functionality become faster.
Google caffeine has been being slowly implemented since last summer. Here's a post on google's blog about it: htp://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.
Well, I don't know about you, but for me this sounds like the new algorithm is going to favor popular domains and reduce the number of small ones on the top index positions. I do believe this will reduce the number of spam pages although this is going to form some sort of Discrimination towards newer websites. I guess the whole point is that the users must be happy with the result quality. I do believe that The Human Factor is going to be our primary concern in Domain Names and URLs/Titles. It is really strange to notice how people click more often on 3-5 SERP positions first when the first results are not titled in marketing optimized fashion. It is practically impossible for search engines to determine visitor time on page into to a usable metric since user behavior is too diverse. I'll just ensure you that whatever happens, SEO will always evolve and compete with the newest trends. Isn't that why SEO is such a profitable business for all of us. Cheers, Venetsian.
The new system looks creepy! If you are trying to say that the new sites will be drained out of the system then its not cool.. I am sure its all about the SEO and the credibility of the site!