Submit a video sitemap to Google to make sure that the search engine spiders can find your video content and index it accordingly. Tag your video with these terms and consider naming the file of the video with these terms in mind.
It can also indicate to search engine spiders that the site hasn't been updated recently, causing indexing issues. If it is intuitive and easy to navigate for users then in all probability it will be easy for search engine spiders to crawl.
Simply having your content available to crawling spiders doesn’t ensure that it will be quickly or easily crawled by the search engines. Within this tool you can exclude all folders and pages included in your robots.txt file and create a standard...
Frequently, you'll hit on entries in your webserver's log file that appear to be regular search engine spiders. Robotic Fakes: Search Engine Spiders Pretending to be Human Browsers Because there's a veritable onslaught of search engine spiders...
Search engines are called to disclose which code to deploy in a given robots.txt file to deny their spiders access to a site's pages. Blocking Spiders via the Apache Configuration File httpd.conf An alternative method of blocking spiders can be...
Due to poor connectivity, the spiders want to get as much content as they can and often will only spider the first 100 to 120k of content on the page. Unlike the global engines, which have Webmaster portals, you have to tell Baidu where to find the...
Make sure they don't use a module such as "mod throttle" to keep spiders from overwhelming the servers. During times of either configuration problems or simply an outage, a search engine may see one of the following: DNS is unavailable, Network is...
In the first line you specify what spiders you want to block from spidering your content. If you want the instructions to apply to all spiders, you can use an asterisk on the first line: User-agent: * You can also identify specific spiders to allow...
New Google Webmaster Tool Aids Robots.txt CreationFor the coding-challenged, creating a robots.txt file for instructing search engine spiders on the preferred way to crawl your site has not always been easy.
New Google Webmaster Tool Aids Robots.txt CreationFor the coding-challenged, creating a robots.txt file for instructing search engine spiders on the preferred way to crawl your site has not always been easy.
Placing a robots.txt file onto sites prevents Google's spiders from indexing them and displaying sites in search results. Google has politely turned down a cordial invitation to support technology that would control how the search engine lists...
Providing a list of URLs to search engines serves as a supplemental source of information to what their spiders would find in the wild. Historically, site owners without the ability to place a file in the root folder for their domain haven't been...
Dynamic URLs may cause search engine spiders (define) to index multiple versions of the same page. storeId=10001 instead, the actual directory and file naming structure of the site is changed to make the URL more friendly.
Analytics software that relies on JavaScript tagging of your pages to perform tracking will not capture spider activity because spiders do not execute the JavaScript. Like the Robots.txt file there's a strong potential for screwing up your site if...
Similar to the way a robots.txt file is used, or a meta tag, the X-Robots-Tag can use the NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOSNIPPET, or NOFOLLOW tag to tell spiders not to index a page, not to display a cached version of a page in search results, not to...
Robots.txt files were first developed in 1994 and have been the standard method webmasters use to block spiders (the crawlers search engines use to go through websites' content). Yahoo Inc.and other top search companies voluntarily respect a Web...
Even when the offending material is removed, it still shows up in the search engine's database until it re-spiders the infringing site and updates its search index. Even to file one of these, the only cost is your own time in preparing it or hiring...
If Googlebot or other search engine spiders spend their limited time on your site waiting for pages to load, they may not be able to index all of your pages. One thing to ensure you don't do is try to improve latency by restricting or blocking...
David Naylor Launches Robots.txt File BuilderMany people screw up their robots.txt file and deny the search engine spiders access to their sites. Dave thought it would be a great idea to create a central site where people can have their robots.txt...
Yahoo Lets Webmasters ID Non-Essential Page ElementsUsing a new "robots-nocontent" attribute, webmasters will soon be able to tell Yahoo's spiders that certain elements or sections of a page are not the real "content" of the page.
