Google Caffeine is live: what you need to know

[Nomar]

Last week, Google officially announced that their new web indexing system "Caffeine" is live on all Google pages. What does this mean for your website and do you have to change anything on your pages?

What is Google Caffeine?

Google Caffeine is the name for the new method that Google uses to index web pages. In contrast to Google's old method, Caffeine can index new web pages faster:

"Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before."

Google changed they way in which they index the web because they want to show new pages more quickly in the search results.

What is the difference between the old system and Google Caffeine?

Google's previous system updated the search index in batches.

"Our old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, we would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to you."

With Google Caffeine, Google's search index is updated continually:

"With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index." That means that new pages will be displayed in Google's search results sooner if they are relevant to the search query.

What do you have to change on your web pages?

Caffeine is not a ranking algorithm update. It does not change the way Google ranks web pages. Caffeine just means that new pages will be shown much quicker on Google's result pages. To get your own website on Google's first result page, analyze the web pages that currently have top 10 rankings on Google. The pages that now have a top 10 ranking on Google have done everything right to please Google's latest ranking algorithm.

Analyze the top ranked pages and check how and where they use their keywords. Also check which web pages link to the top ranked pages and how they link to the top ranked pages.

[Lukehluke]

It would be nice if this brings me more visitors from Google... Faster

[Nomar]

Haha, yeah, thats what we all want Google traffic = Moneyyy

[fortunebilly]

google Caffeine has take place a few while ago .I have also saw some Google dance for my site but in the end quality work for me .Quality content and some high pr links helped me to regain my rankings

[pinkvinny]

The algorithm on Google Caffeine is definitely different. It has more reliance on keyword strings to produce better results.

[Nomar]

The algorithm on Google Caffeine is definitely different. It has more reliance on keyword strings to produce better results.

Yeah, I think the results are better. Caffeine is something to stay

[pinkvinny]

Google caffeine was to keep up with growing web user expectations, needs and complexity of data. Google Caffeine is a tool that was designed to grow alongside the market's needs.

[Ricky26]

I have also saw some Google dance for my site but in the end quality work for me