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August 01, 2006                           SearchReturn Issue #081
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            "New Yahoo! Slurp"
            "New MSNBot Agent Names"
            "Video Cutts"

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==> New Yahoo! Slurp

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000334.html

Essentials: Over the weekend, Yahoo!'s new version of Slurp
started indexing sites full-time, with as much as a 25% increase
in efficiency described as fewer requests and subsequent
bandwidth savings for webmasters. The Yahoo! weather report from
a short while ago is when the new crawler made its debut.

Yahoo! indicated that the new crawler is now full-time, and to
expect shuffling of your page results as the old crawler is shut
down in favor of the new one. The new crawler should be an
improvement overall, and Yahoo! is asking for feedback on odd
behavior (especially technical problems).

 

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==> New MSNBot Agent Names

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/004259.html

Essentials: MSN has some new user-agent names for their crawlers,
specifically for shopping, news and image search. The Web search
crawler will still be seen as MSNBot. The other names are:

msnbot-products
msnbot-news
msnbot-media

Comment? mailto:digest@searchreturn.com?subject=MSN

 

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==> Video Cutts

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060801-092846

Essentials: Matt Cutts has a series of six videos on topics of
special interest to the webmaster community and search marketers.
Each video is approximately 5 minutes in length.

Quality of a Good Site
Myths, Large Site Launches, and Google Images
Optimize for Search Engines or Users?
Static vs. Dynamic urls
How to structure a site?
Supplemental Results

There's reportedly not a lot of action, but short of that, it is
definately worth checking out the famed Googler's video.

 

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