Google uses web crawlers (a.k.a.bots or GoogleBot) to find and index web pages by following links. If you make your good content really hard to find, then Google can't crawl, index, and rank your content.
To keep it simple, Google has an index of all of your current pages. If you wipe out your old pages then you wipe out Google's current index of your site. At iAcquire we understand that off-page optimization involves monitoring your domain...
On the organic side, there are no guarantees on how long it will take Google to index SEO-related changes, such as title tags and meta descriptions, and even then Google may change what appears in the search results.
You are telling the engines to not index the page! Using the meta robots tag, you can instruct the search engines to not index a certain page, not follow any links on the page, etc. There are several CSS techniques for hiding content, including...
You will use the Tags field when creating a post to define your keywords.Allow the search engines to index your Category pages, but not your Archives and Tag Archive pages. If you do, you end up with a bunch of low quality pages in the index...
The site had one inbound link according to Majestic SEO’s fresh index, and only six based on Majestic’s historic index. And by the way, that one link in the fresh index was nofollowed. The images were text in images (a huge pet peeve of mine).
By reviewing the links in your main, footer, breadcrumb and any other supporting navigation you can quickly assess if you have duplicate content issues with pesky default pages (e.g.index.html). This is true to some extent as a full SEO campaign...
If you really, really feel that you have to submit some new content urgently, and you don’t believe that you’re crawled often enough for it to get into the Bing index as quickly as you want, you can use this feature to submit up to 10 pages per...
This should help the index to be updated slightly more quickly than if Google were to just self detect and follow the 301s. If the page looks how you expect it to, then you can submit it to the index.
This means: "Do not Index this page. Your page will drop OUT of the search index AND your links to other pages will not be followed. META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW"> This means: "Do Index this page.
Potential problems with the smartphone crawler enter the picture when you have done things in your robots.txt file to change how bots might index or approach your mobile content, or when you are using a system that generates temporary urls on the...
A few examples include non-www.versions of site pages as well as duplicate index pages. When linking with text, it should anchor on a relevant set of terms regarding the linked page. Navigational linking should be textual or CSS based and you...
If you were in SEO at the time, you’ll remember those flux periods when Google performed major maintenance/index updates, coined the Google Dance. The index was now being updated daily. With the official launch in 2010, Google called it “whole new...
Just apply simple HTML attributes in accordance with semantic markup specifications, and you'll enable search engines to uniquely index that data and potentially display the rich snippets. This makes syndication of your content easier and also...
You can recover from Panda by removing low quality pages from the index (canonical, noindex, etc. We needed full control over our Google Panda update tests, so we needed to have some of our own sites affected.
Among other highlights in the litany of new features are: the ability to tell the Bing crawler to slow down indexing during specific hours; an all-new Index Explorer tool that lets you see a more up-to-date version of Bing's indexing details...
Using the canonical tag to return one preferred URL location (e.g.www.example.com vs.example.com/ vs.www.example.com/index.html vs.example.com/home.asp. After making their site better for users and Google, OneWayFurniture.com still isn't reporting...
Just one month before that, while speaking to All Things Digital, CEO Richard Rosenblatt, said Google was a great partner because Demand Media filled gaps in Google's index, supplied more than 2 billion views on YouTube, and was a large AdSense...
Basically, this is an attack technique designed to supplant an authentic web page in a search engine's index and search results pages with another. It helps make sure that if it isn't the Googlebot, then it tells the spider not to index; you'll...
Index page count: sometimes less is more! MajesticSEO Announces the New Freshness Index by Brent Rangen Majestic SEO announces a "freshness index" tool to the Site Explorer, Clique Hunter, Advanced reports and Standard Reports.
