Google "Caffeine" are you ready for it?

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As a Realtor you may not have heard that not only has Microsoft launched Bing across all of

 it's sites as it's new search engine but Google recently announced testing of a new, and limited testing access (to developers like us) to a more powerful version of their search engine technology which is soon to replace their current engine.

By the way as a Realtor you shouldn't have to keep up on this stuff, which is why we are here for you!

Google has given this new engine the code-name "Caffeine" and you can read about from Google's own Dev Blog here

Now, as Realtors who rely on SEO to bring traffic to your site understanding and working with information such as this at any time Google gives us insights like these into what they have planned for the future, you need to pay attention.

So what can you learn from what Google is telling us about the future of search? Here's a quote I think is particularly
telling:

"It's the first step in a process that will let us push the
envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness
and other dimensions."

Our thought and the thought of some of our industry mentors is that this one sentence tells us all we need to know about where we need to be moving, and here's how:

1. Size and Indexing Speed: This tells us that Google is going to be crawling more pages and indexing them FASTER. This continues Google's focus on fresh content - so many new pages are created every day, they can't keep up.
 
2. Accuracy: This indicates that the sites that will continue to "win" the search game are going to be the ones that can correctly match up the searcher's keywords with the content they were actually looking for. Google indicates that they're interested not only in what sites people click on, but what the searcher's behavior is once they arrive. 
 
With that in mind, success will come from testing and adjusting your pages to better serve your visitors. It will no longer be enough to focus on the keywords alone, but on actually making your content relevant to what those searchers want.
 
One way to do this is through careful organization of your site structure, organizing information in ways that people will find useful, not just search spiders.
 
3. Comprehensiveness: To me, this indicates that Google will continue to heap love upon "authority" sites - ones that do a really good job of completely covering their selected niche.
 
In Google's never-ending quest for relevance, Google wants to see sites that can indicate a thorough and comprehensive resource for what people are searching for. This is why it's important to continue to build pages that rank for ALL your relevant keywords.
 
It's not just about the individual SERPS, but the "profile" that a comprehensive site creates. I can imagine that this focus could be partly to combat "SERP Spamming" tactics where results are flooded with multiple, largely identical copies of the same information spread across multiple Web 2.0 sites.
 
More and more, it's going to be important to create sites with larger and larger collections of content in order to really dominate the listings. Once again, Google shows that they prefer larger, older sites that are packed with useful information.
 
So even though there's been a lot of buzz around this announcement and lots of speculation, We see that what's working for the clients utlizing the services of Effective Realty Sites in Google right now for us appears to be exactly what they want to encourage.
 
So get started with us today, so by the time Caffeine comes out of BETA, you'll be so far ahead of your competition they may never be able to catch up.

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