RG: For many years now, I have written that the game to watch in modern search is to find out which entity has both the best crawler-based engine technology, combined with the best human social layer.
Here you have the ability to instruct the Bing crawler (Bingbot) to ignore URL parameters that have no impact upon the content of the page (usually tracking parameters). If you’d like to see your page as Bing’s crawler – Bingbot – see it, just...
This is a great way of verifying that the Google crawler sees the page as you expect it to (remember the crawler is supposed to see the same page as the user would see), and that there are no externally injected hidden links on the page.
URLs as Bing, but given Google treats smartphones as desktop browsers (even with the new smartphone crawler) and your content rankings are not gaining any benefit from your shared m.links and.and.well again, why would you want two domain URLs?
But now that a generation has passed and crawler technology is not as primitive as it was. Developers of content management systems, long the arch enemy of the crawler, build them with being "crawler friendly" in mind.
The image and video sitemaps are great ways to speak crawler, (XML) and inform Googlebot about the images on your site, their residing URL, ALT text and similarly, the pages where your videos can be found, any corresponding tags, duration...
However, the real power of Goodzer comes from it's crawler which is able to parse any online store regardless of it's design and if it changes it's website. This is unique because other shopping search engines require store owners to supply product...
While Blekko's crawler indexes the web itself, the social layer built into the service gives users the power to create their own search engine. Whereas on other search engines you cannot necessarily predict when a map result is going to be...
Especially when you're concerned with SEO: you want to know when, if, and how the crawler based search engines spider your pages, which search queries (a.k.a.keywords) are pulling visitors to your site, whether someone has linked to you out of the...
It's undeniably exciting to see companies like BrightEdge and Conductor aiming to beat the black box of search engines by building their own crawler based solutions to monitor rankings. What's happening out there on search engines?
Now, getting all the internal link information for a specific URL on a domain you aren't affiliated with isn't trivial, and for these you'll need a robust crawler. Search engines crawl, index, and rank web pages.
Eightfold Logic uses this data to deploy a crawler to run a set of semantic queries against your business to verify the data provided and find the right matches. Put another way, a link should generate traffic to your website on the merits of its...
Load this file into Xenu or another crawler Other useful tools for crawl analysis include Lynx and SEO Browser for viewing pages as a crawler, the ability to fetch as Googlebot in Webmaster Tools, and Charles for deeper SEO diagnostics.
For example, if Googlebot were crawling from Mountain View, Calif.then the Web server would detect an IP from the U.S.and the crawler would be routed to the U.S.version and potentially never see the German language version.
A crawler is just a software program. Search engines will impose specific requirements on what you can and can't do. The approach to the marketer is to make them understand that working with search engines provides a huge business opportunity.
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If the content on that page is popular, enjoys a nice link profile, and gets quite a bit of Google crawler action, go for the higher search volume and don't worry about the KEI score of the keyword. Does your site architecture support getting...
I've had conversations recently with Mike Grehan about the Web and how the crawler is no longer effective. Marcia Weltersuccinctly defines what search engines are trying to do when analyzing thousands of semantically-related documents: statistics...
A search engine like Google can tell how much time a particular page takes to generate for a crawler. I've written before about how site speed and performance is a major factor to search engines such as Google, especially when sites have an...
Having proven they could create their own algorithmic crawler and build their own search index, the company was faced with the absurd challenge of competing with Google as a general search engine. They had built their own algorithmic search engine...
