Google explains how it deduplicates Top Stories from main search results

Content that appears in the first slot of the Top Stories section may be deduplicated from the main results if the Top Stories box appears before the main results.

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Google explains what “crawl budget” means for webmasters

Google says crawl demand and crawl rate make up GoogleBot’s crawl budget for your web site. The post Google explains what “crawl budget” means for webmasters appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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Google’s Matt Cutts Explains How Google Search Handles 404 & 410 Status Codes

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today explaining the difference in how Google handles 404 and 410 error status codes. Both 404 and 410s are errors for a web page or document not being available, however a 410 is defined as “gone” forever. So 410s are more…

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