Google uses web crawlers (a.k.a.bots or GoogleBot) to find and index web pages by following links. Not getting the search traffic you were hoping for? In a new Webmaster Help video, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reveals five of the...
Wrapping it up, Meunier emphasized that you not block Googlebot from mobile sites. So how can you build a site that addresses current and future cross-media challenges? In the jam-packed Next Generation Site Architecture session at SES New York...
Doing this will tell crawlers that the HTML being served on that URL may vary depending on user agent, such a googlebot or googlebot-mobile. Above the fold issues, content strategy, internal links, and mobile specifics can trip you up.
And that includes Googlebot as it crawls your website. I use my programming skills on a regular basis in SEO, and especially when performing SEO audits. Various helpful SEO tools can be incredibly helpful in assisting your analysis, but nothing...
Mobile SEO: Managing Googlebot & Your Mobile Sites In 2013 we are getting much closer to that prediction becoming true. A key theme during many sessions at this year's SES London was the growth of mobile and tablet search.
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
These are the errors that Googlebot encounters when trying to crawl pages on your website. Ah, mid-December! Unless you’re Amazon, it’s the quietest time of the year for most of us in the SEO industry.
Needless to say, you don’t want Googlebot to hit the wrong header response code, and possibly across thousands of pages. Technical SEO audits are one of the most powerful deliverables in all of SEO. They definitely provide the most bang for your...
When in doubt about a page, you can also use the “Fetch as Googlebot” feature in your Webmaster Tools to check the page content. Your site is fantastic. You have great content. People think your site rocks – traffic is skyrocketing and you're...
By default Letting Googlebot decide is selected, but if you know that the parameter can be safely ignored by Google you can choose that. Using the Google Store as an example, she pointed out that while there were only 158 products, there were over...
Googlebot, as it is widely known, has always been a text-based web crawler, capturing the web by recording and organizing sites and pages looking at the code that makes up a site. I say this because in the case of several successful black hat sites...
Also, “fetch as Googlebot” so you have a previous copy of what Google used to see. Keep these tips and no-nos in mind and you can keep yourself out of the CEO’s office. SEO Redesign: Teamwork First It should go without saying, but SEOs, developers...
How long that takes will depend on several factors, including the number of pages on your site and how efficiently Googlebot can crawl the content. On a typical website, it can take several weeks for Googlebot to crawl and process enough pages to...
All of these dangerous practices knowingly or unknowingly fall into the realm of content quality and showing devotion to your site content will allow you to provide fresh and unique copy that post Caffeine (yet again, another big algorithm update...
As Googlebot crawls a site, it keeps track of errors it encounters and data on how pages are incorporated into indices. In the Crawl Stats area graphs displaying the past 90 days of Googlebot activity can be seen.
Oberbeck also pointed out that publishers can simply block Googlebot with their robots.txt file if they don’t wish to appear in search results. It’s a proposed piece of legislation that seems absurd on its face and only becomes more self-defeating...
There are plenty of reasons why you'd want Googlebot to recrawl your website ahead of schedule. Good news is, there's a better, more reliable way to get Googlebot to recrawl your site ahead of your standard crawl rate, and it's 100 percent Google...
Redirecting mobile users to different URLs comes with additional caveats and Google speaks directly to them when they say, “.be sure to treat Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile just like any other user-agent and redirect them appropriately.
Article spinning is a technique designed to fool Googlebot into thinking that hundreds of pages are linking to a particular website - however every page published is machine written junk or pure gibberish.
The Create robots.txt tool, which provides a way to generate a robots.txt file to block specific parts of your site from being crawled by Googlebot, is being tossed due to low usage. Google has announced that you can now see up to 90 days of...
