Wednesday, September 1, 2010

User-Generated Content More Important, at Least for Google Rankings

While search engine providers have talked about fresh content for years, Google Caffeine's emphasis on freshness gives user-generated content a lot more weight. Maintaining a good ranking according to Google's algorithms now requires that at least some of the page's content is fresh and dynamic, which indicates to Google that the page is still relevant.
Adding customer reviews or user-generated questions and answers can obviously help provide fresh content.

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DIY and Licensed GenAI Patterns Will Continue

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