If your content can't be found, read, recognized, categorized, indexed and the search result display isn't inspiring clicks in the first place, its potential awesomeness is severely limited. A couple of years ago, Scott Stratten of "Unmarketing...
While all the URLs you discover might not be indexed in search engines, this list will show you what you're putting out there for crawler consumption. Is it Indexed? Now, take some of the folder names and page names found above and perform a site...
Just make sure the staging domain cannot be indexed by search engines! It's the digital reflection of your brand. Launching a new website isn't just about updating your CMS and content, it's also a brand refresh – your opportunity to reshape your...
Properly building an XML Sitemap and submitting it to Google is one of the fastest ways to get your content indexed and is often overlooked (this is a must read). Search engine optimization (SEO) professionals, web designers, and bloggers read a...
If a URL isn't indexed it will never be shown in any SERP. When new pages and posts are created it may take some time for that new URL to be indexed by search engines (depending on the site’s crawl rate).
Members of the network are indexed in Google, ranking for key terms and their brand, not excessively cross-linked to other network member sites, don't share the same ip address with the majority of the sites, aren't all owned by the same person or...
How to Implement Video Microdata for Google but we don't have to worry about that because we review webmaster tools' accounts regularly to keep track of how our site is indexed, what urls are in our XML sitemap, and we always make sure we're not...
Neglecting core SEO tasks may result in losing out on the long-term benefits that can accrue out of all the social media efforts, as all social media signals may not get passed on and get correlated to the site if it isn't being regularly crawled...
The wherecomponent relies on core optimization, the site's ability to be properly indexed and cataloged, and whether its content is relevant to the user query. Last month we talked about offsite engagement for awareness, appearing at the right...
Google's algorithm works to predict search queries in real-time based on indexed web pages, personalized search history, other users' search activity, and Google+ (for person's name). Billions of searches are conducted each day on popular search...
A quick way to get a list of URLs already indexed by Google is to search "site:yourdomain.com". It can be installed, up and running in a matter of minutes. However, out of the box, WordPress is not as SEO friendly as you'd think.
In a world where we talk about the importance of content, wouldn’t it be amazing if there was somewhere that just gave content a score and had it all indexed by topic for you to look at? All the ideas below are based around the consumer pathway, a...
Based on an analysis with different unique postings, “URLs with a +1 are being indexed instantly and rank for the title as well as some longtail queries. At SES London 2013, Marcus Tober, the founder and CTO of Searchmetrics, and Will Critchlow...
For these “lower quality” sections of your website, do a site: command and record the number of pages indexed. Since search quality indicators have become an increasingly important factor for search engines, evaluating SEO content performance in...
Using the submission tool, you're able to tell their crawler that certain pages need to be indexed quicker. Majestic SEO is expanding yet again. Fresh off of announcing the Majestic SEO Fresh Index increased to 90 days, the Majestic SEO Team has...
Then again, sometimes a perfectly good site isn’t indexed, because of a bad robots.txt, like: If the website is indexed, you will see a result like this: Links that appear on a domain that isn't indexed in Google.
Creating and submitting an XML video sitemap to get your videos indexed. Start by defining your approach and establishing if your goals are realistic and attainable. Should you be aiming to be the next viral hit on YouTube, or to strategically...
MJ: Everything else being equal (links/social, etc.just talking about on-site…If website A has 1,000 pages of (unique) content indexed and website B has 500, will website A “generally speaking” outrank/outperform website B?
As the amount of information indexed on the web continues its exponential expansion, social provides a useful filter to help surface the most relevant information. Habits are hard to break. Whether it’s smoking, drinking, or something as benign as...
If you don't have access to the backend of the site you're working on, running a crawl and seeing what search engines have indexed are your best bet for identifying really old subdomains. I love digging into what I like to call the "catacombs" of...
