The official blog of the Live Search team has been talking about “Optimizing your very large site for search.” Well, it is a series decked with four key aspects that a site should have to raise its relevance and coverage. Following are the four aspects:

Part 1
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.

Part 2
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.

Part 3
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.

Part 4
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

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