Don't get me wrong: Google's Keyword Tools is great for brainstorming variations and validating your opinions with numbers, but you should never rely on a bot to tell you what your users are doing. Your user research will tell you a lot about how...
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While this article has only brushed the surface of how you should cater to a visitor or crawling bot experience, these are some of my biggest pet peeves that are often times easy fixes. Go visit your Google Analytics Content section and search for...
There was a controversy a few months ago about a site owner looking at his traffic logs and claiming that the Facebook ad traffic is 80 percent bot traffic. Simply put, filtering out bot traffic is easy, and there is no reason for Facebook to take...
Adhere to these recommendations and you will have a better optimized site and hopefully see an enhanced bot crawl rate. As you can see, there are many components that aid in enhancing your bot crawl frequency and depth of crawl.
There are many common issues that impede a search bot's ability to crawl your site. Google Webmaster Tools also provides detailed list of broken links on your site and pinpoints the exact pages on your site from where the broken links originates from.
Your new site URLs will benefit the user as it will a crawling bot. Would you rather hand Google a bucket of your site URLs and ask them to figure out where they belong on the site or would it be better to give them several small named buckets of...
Looking at aimClear’s total organic traffic from every source, which excludes Facebook ads and what we can see in Google Analytics, approximately 63 percent of our total organic site visitors have JavaScript disabled and is not declared as a bot...
Using Fetch as Google Bot to find Hacked Sites Finally, in just the past two weeks and after x bad links pointed at his site he indeed got the notice from Google that his link profile was full of stinky links and he needed to fix it.
Facebook has systems in place that attempt to detect and filter certain click activity, including repetitive clicks from a single user, clicks that appear to be from an automated program or bot, or clicks that are otherwise abusive, their...
Yes, it's entirely possible that bot on a compromised PC connected to Yahoo Mail, inserted the message-ID thus overriding Yahoo's own Message-IDs and added the 'Yahoo Mail for Android' tagline at the bottom of the message all in an elaborate...
Instead merchants can give TheFind bot access to their product pages for crawling. Google is consistently the best performing CSE. Google Product Search (Free for now) – Google Product Search, which is transitioning to become Google Shopping, is a...
However, much of the maturation that has occurred in the areas of spam and bot prevention is highly adaptable to IPv6. Google has been working on supporting IPv6 for a long time and currently (before the launch) has a sub-domain (ipv6.google.com...
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SEOs understand the importance of submitting a sitemap to Google via Webmaster Tools; but in this Google Webmaster video Matt Cutts is explicit that an HTML sitemap for users will help with search rankings — both in passing page rank to internal...
With internal linking, the better you do, you equally benefit the human element but also the crawling bot. I, like many, ponder nofollow, follow, paid, non-paid, or who Google is threatening to penalize.
Jargot-bot for Google Apps The company also introduced Jargon-bot for Google Apps. Well, Jargon-Bot will automatically detect business jargon or business speak and provide you with real-time translation in plain English.
Finally, Wilensky made mention of a new smartphone Google Mobile bot looks at smart versus feature phones, not device type. Wells recommended setting up a separate mobile campaign from desktop campaign and noted that Google AdWords will syndicate...
That isn’t something to be deemed as sharable and you also didn’t help the crawling bot to understand the theme of your page. Google search will continue to become more personalized, getting away from the ‘10 link’ approach that we see in search...
It will trip Google's spam filter and you'll have to start verifying your searches because Google will think you're a bot. It gives a large review of the page and shows where it’s effective for Google search,” Ronnie Anderson from SEMRush told...
