The image above shows the product annotation dialogue box for a Rock Crawler wheel in the Google Catalogs dashboard. The small image on the right of the dialogue box is the one image that is in the Google Shopping Feed for this particular Rock...
Check Google Webmaster Tools at least once a week for site crawler issues. Are you checking your site for crawler issues? Crawler Issues Use scripting to keep pages hidden from Google (i.e.no-index our your pages that have one piece or content on...
Originally designed for finding bad links in a site, the simple crawler, especially combined with a bit of Excel wizardry, turned out to be useful for all sorts of site audit problems. Directives: information on your site’s meta tag directives...
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 section displays the most common keywords found by the Google crawler as it navigated your site. 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...
In our example case, the robots.txt was clean, allowing what it should allow, and blocking what it should block, there was nothing specifically related to Google’s crawler – Googlebot. Had they pushed a cross-domain canonical tag in the code to...
In addition to looking for duplicate title tags, make sure that your keywords are the first words in the title tag (and H1 tag). Go to Google Webmaster Tools and use the built-in robots.txt checker (you can find this in the Crawler Access section...
Use keywords in the alt tag attribute. The best way to handle this is to use robots.txt to prevent the crawler from looking at the versions you don't want indexed (most likely this would be the thumbnail or the full size image).
Search for anything using your favorite crawler-based search engine. So, how do crawler-based search engines go about determining relevancy, when confronted with hundreds of millions of web pages to sort through?
A query on a crawler-based search engine often turns up thousands or even millions of matching web pages. Failure to put target keywords in the title tag is the main reason why perfectly relevant web pages may be poorly ranked.
Over Meta Tag Keywords: The new medium of search collides with trademark law, for the first time. Maybe Google's not our friend and we should own our own crawler-based technology to protect ourselves.
Deep Submission Tools: Designed to submit many pages from your site to crawler-based search engines. Multisubmit Tools: Designed to submit your web site to hundreds of crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories at the same time.
The search engine is based on a LookSmart-powered search index, presumably drawing from the Wisenut crawler the company purchased several years ago. URL Spaces & Alt Tag Naming Conventions Live From The B-to-B Marketing Conference: Handle Keywords...
There's a meta tag generator, a "Page Primer" analysis tool that offers basic advice for changes that may help with crawler-based search engines, a submission tool to send your URLs to many search engines at once as well as a "deep" submit of many...
Just saying you are Google does nothing to cause your browser to act the way Google's crawler actually does, any more than saying to someone that you are a famous movie star will convince someone of the case.
AltaVista's Scooter crawler begins trials These previously came from the World Wide Web Worm crawler that GoTo.com acquired in 1997. Excite and Infoseek play laser tag, instead. Compaq announces it will put one button access on its new computer...
NOTE: New information on the MSN crawler has been updated into the Crawler Info section since this page was posted. Crawler Info As for this submit URL that some may remember, it submits your page to the Yahoo crawler, which powers the current MSN...
This leaves the crawler-based search engines entirely dependent on ranking the page in the top results solely off of link data, and I'm guessing not many people are linking over to it using the phrase.
In my earlier parts of this series on local search, I covered Overture's new local paid listings and crawler-based methods from Google and Mobilemaps as attempts to improve local searching on general purpose search engines.
If you paid for a crawler-based search engine to list a particular page, any changes you make to that page will be automatically detected each time the crawler revisits over the period of your paid inclusion subscription.
