Matt Cutts Interview Tueday 4PM PST

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Originally Posted by Linkster

Unfortunately - there is nothing new in anything that was said - its all the same thing Google has always done - the recip links, spam and bought links checking has been going on for over 3 years

Linkster, "all the same thing"? Matt isn't just reinterating Google's quality guidelines: "Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank."

Assuming Matt's got his facts straight and his head screwed on the right way, Google's crawl priority and indexing behavior is not the same post Big Daddy:

Some folks that were doing a lot of reciprocal links might see less crawling.

it’s by design in Bigdaddy that we crawl somewhat more than we index in Bigdaddy

CrankyDave, your site seems like an example of one of those sites that might have been crawled more before because of link exchanges. I picked five at random and they were all just traded links. Google is less likely to give those links as much weight now.

In other words, Google is singing the same tune as it always has, but is now handling things a bit differently.