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[Bruce Clay Blog] The tricky thing about Caffeine and Mayday is that they’re both distinct and connected, having appeared at much the same time, either by coincidence, cover-up or necessity. By that I mean, right around the beginning of May, as the infrastructure update had SEOs on heightened alert despite assurances from the search engine that Caffeine wasn’t going to have any significant effect on rankings, suddenly there was admission of an algo update.

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[Posts from the Econsultancy blog] Google Caffeine: the most refreshing Google update ever for SEOs ...: Unlike many major Google updates, which include alterations to thefactors Google uses to rank pages, Caffeine instead represents anupdate to Google's web indexing system. The result: Google saysCaffeine "provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index."

[SEM Synergy] Mayday, Enterprise SEO & Retail SEM: Some theories are circulating, attempting to figure out what change Google made that affected long-tail traffic. Bruce suspects the Caffeine infrastructure may have something to do with the change, and expects to see further shifts due .

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[Chris Horner - SEO Top Page] SEO video & Google Caffeine « Chris Horner - SEO Top Page: Unlike the May Day algorithm change Caffeine represents more of a technical indexing adjustment to improve the speed and efficiency with which pages are indexed and served. It a system change at the Google end of the search relationship largely in respect of how data is collected, not what data is collected.

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