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Most People Rely on Search Engines to Find Local Businesses [Study]
The pew internet survey found that people search more online using search engines to find local businesses than newspapers.
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How businesses can take advantage of the Google Caffeine search index
Businesses constantly updating their websites with new content will be the main beneficiaries of Google Caffeine, which will add sites to the search index merely seconds after they are uploaded, SEO experts say.
But SMEs don’t need to change their SEO strategies dramatically to take advantage of the new program, as it only affects the speed at which pages are uploaded and not the order in which they are ranked.
Google introduced its Caffeine update last year, but that was only for testers and now the new index is being rolled out for all users worldwide. It should be live over the next few days.
In a blog post, Google software engineer Carrie Grimes explained the new index was a response to more “real-time” pages being updated constantly, like news, forum posts and updates on sites like Facebook and Twitter. These sites are being updated by the second with new user content.
The Google Caffeine update will mean a user can search for new content just seconds after that content has been uploaded.
