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Matt Cutts Explains Caffeine Update

Google announced yesterday that it has been working on a project called “Caffeine” that will re-write the architecture for Google’s Web search. As Matt Cutts shares exclusively with WebProNews, Caffeine is comparable to the “Big Daddy Update” back in 2005, which consisted of changes to the way Google crawls and indexes websites.

PubCon: Understanding How the Big Boys Operate

Did you ever wonder how large companies keep up with all the pages on their websites? As he explains in the above video, Bill Hunt of Global Strategies knows all about this since IBM is one of their clients. First, know whether or not the search engines are indexing all your pages. If they aren’t, then you need to check a few things out. Make sure you have a sitemap that is working correctly, and check your own spider to make sure you’re being seen. Also, look at your combined PPC and organic data to find out what is converting and what is not.

Linkscape: Making Valuable Link Data Available

Rand Fishkin and the SEOmoz crew have a new tool to add to their roster. Linkscape crawls the Web and allows access to link information on more than 30 billion web pages.

SES: Live Search On Crawlability And Backlinks

MSN Live Search Webmaster Center recently released 2 reports relating to changes in their tools section. Under the first report, the Crawl Issues tool launched which tells of any problems Live Search may have crawling and indexing your site. Secondly, MSN Live Search brought back comprehensive backlink data with their backlinks tool but eliminated competitive backlink reviews. For more on this, watch Nathan Buggia’s full explanation in the WebProNews video from SES San Jose.