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Fortunately, I was used to being uncomfy outdoors in warm weather, as all of my ancestors came from places where the high temperatures in summer are 60 degrees and foggy. So I had water and sunscreen and one of those dumb fans that tourists carry around their necks.
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I also skipped the breakfast cocktails at my friend’s brunch, which turned out to be a very good thing. (Also, my first real sign of adulthood. I’m sure my parents were proud.)
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We had my college graduation at a pizza place, in deference to my diet at the time. (Which was 80% pizza. Ah, how I miss my youthful metabolism.)
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A very common question in Search Engine Optimisation is that of how long it should take for a page to cache. There is no exact answer to this question as such as every website is different, It could take a few days if your site isn’t updated very often or as i discovered last week on a personal blog of mine it could be as quick as 10 minutes.

Having information cached quickly by Google can be crucial, if you have a news story and you are the first to break it then you will rank well for that subject, if you are slow at releasing a story and someone releases it before you then there is less chance of making first page with it.

Social Media websites will get cached extremely regular, Getting your page on there will result in your new page getting cached quicker. If you use a platform such as wordpress then this will also notify google you have updated your blog. Take advantage of Twitter, there are many tools that will tweet your blog post which instantly gets put in front of an audience of millions.

Taking these few steps when you write a blog post or create a new page wont take very long out of your day but could make a difference.

*****Update*****

This blog post took 9 minutes to appear in Google (checked using the site command)

Gary
Senior SEO Developer

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I know many of you in the Performancing crowd utilize the Sharethis widget on your blog to make it as easy as 1,2,3 to share content across a wide spectrum of sites and services. Starting later this week, you should notice a new sleek design to the widget as well as a slew of new features such as:

No tabs! – The widget will be tab-free. They have merged the Social Web and Post tabs into one section, making the experience more intuitive and manageable for the user.

Smarter Widget – Whenever registered ShareThis users share content to their contacts, they will display the last three addresses used. Reducing time searching for most used contacts encourages users to share more frequently.

ShareBox v2.0 – Users can now save content directly to their ShareBox through a link in the widget.

Contact Manager – ShareThis users will now be able to access and import their contacts from within the widget. This allows your users to gain access to their address books without leaving your site.

According to the recent newsletter that was released, you will not need to make any changes to the existing widget code. Your current customization such as links, colors, order/selection will remain in tact. The new release will be pushed out across all publishers later this week and all data will also remain in tact through the ShareThis Reporting Dashboard. Once the new design is in place and you don’t like it,

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LinkShare has launched a new area called LinkShare’s Bento Box (what’s a Bento Box?) where you can find all their early-stage features and 3rd party plug-ins.

LinkShare’s Bento Box includes their WordPress plug-ins, Mac Widget, and links to some developers making good use of LinkShare Web Services.

The newest item in LinkShare’s Bento Box is the US version of their Deep Linking LinkGenerator Bookmarklet.

This tool enables affiliates to generate a deep link with the click of a button, without logging in to the Publisher Dashboard.

More details at http://blog.linkshare.com/2009/05/28/announcing-the-bento-box-and-a-new-deep-linking-browser-tool/.

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