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It seems that Live Search is immensely serious about providing all kinds of tips for large sites so that their owners can optimize their sites for search. It was not long back when they came up with certain helpful tips concerned with the same topic.
Now, the official blog of the Live Search team is talking about their series, called “Optimizing your very large site for search,” that is arrayed with four vital aspects that a site should look at in order to enhance its relevance and coverage. Here is what their team has to say:
We started by focusing on reducing the surface area of your site by removing and canonicalizing your URLs. Reducing URLs that are redundant or unnecessary will make room for the ones that are. This post offers some practical suggestions on how to make fewer URLs a reality.
After removing redundant URLs, we focused on the need to optimize for crawl by ensuring you are compressing your site and telling us which content is new or recently updated. This helps us focus on crawling the latest and greatest content.
The third post is all about producing content in a way that ensures it is crawled. Despite improvements in Silverlight and Flash, it is still difficult for us to ensure all of your content makes it into the index. This post offers some suggested workarounds and advice when using these advanced technologies.
To wrap things up, we look at content from a big site perspective and offer some suggested content management strategies for ensuring your site’s rapid growth doesn’t hinder the ability of your content to be accessible to users and, as a result, suffer in ranking”
Topics: Live Search, Web Development
