These are a good example of non-essential pages and should be removed to avoid indexing. We do our best to be mindful of Google's Content Quality Guidelines and know that a human rater may review the page quality of the content we provide for...
Traditional SEO – coding, architecture, indexing, links, and on-page content – moves the needle now as much as ever. SEO professionals are watching with a gleam in their eye as users move into a multi-device, multi-screen, and multi-context digital...
Not indexing quickly or often enough means your site could miss some big organic search opportunities, especially if your site relies on current affairs or breaking news. Ensure “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” is unticked.
It may take some time before our indexing and ranking systems are updated to reflect the new status of your site. After you have meticulously completed a link audit and followed all of the steps necessary to emerge from a manual penalty, you will...
You can’t truly have a successful search engine optimization (SEO) program without evaluating your performance over time and knowing how potential technical issues can affect your website from a crawling, indexing and user experience perspective.
Don't forget to review your robots.txt file periodically - many sites block crawling which hurts indexing and ranking. We discussed the overlap between social and search, and why social drives important signals that help determine rankings – with...
In terms of the actual layout of the search result page (SERP), recent increases in the power of the real-time indexing and ranking, especially for Google, do require regular monitoring. Ranging from the changes made by the search engines in the...
You must also keep a regular check on the core SEO tasks of monitoring the crawling and indexing. You share quality content with the groups, circles, or people you're connected with on various social media platforms.
When Baidu introduced Youa, an ecommerce store to go head to head with Taobao marketplace in 2008, Alibaba has since blocked the search leader from indexing its Taobao and Tmall (B2C) sites. Alibaba quietly unveiled Aliyun Search, a product...
This Day 3 session (more details here) will look at the array of SEO tools available on the market across indexing, competitive analysis, diagnosing and remedying problems, page and site-level information and on-page optimisation.
It’s important to keep in mind that not everything is worth indexing. And while we're talking expectations, it’s smart to keep in mind that there is no guarantee for crawling, indexing, and ranking. In case you hadn’t noticed, his counterpart at...
We're not indexing the web. We are indexing our map of the graph, which is really big and constantly changing. According to Zuck, the product is centered around "making new connections. Graph Search, not unlike a traditional search engine, is meant...
Site-wide SEO: Technical issues based on known best practices including duplicate content issues, indexing problems, URL structure or any other technical problem that affects your SEO performance. One term I hear quite frequently that is often...
The best way to do this is to check your indexing status in Google Webmaster Tools and see how many of your pages are indexed by Google. That means the next step is to get some help and to get your indexing problem diagnosed and fixed.
Read up on Latent Semantic Indexing if this concept is confusing. This is especially frustrating for small business owners who don't have the time or resources to stay current in, what they believe to be, an esoteric and confusing industry.
Cheers to the consolidation of indexing properties and success in the war against duplication and excess indexation! This is a common point of frustration among SEO professionals, especially those who manage ecommerce sites.
Make sure that any redirects produced by your CMS return a 301 header status code and not a 302 to ensure proper indexing. Let’s explore from an SEO perspective the 10 issues that are the most important watch items when considering a CMS, as well...
Make sure your CMS system is professionally evaluated for these issues as some of them can cause major problems with indexing and ranking. I have been fortunate in my 14 year SEO career to work with a huge number of companies and I have seen many...
Ranking Other Ranking Components”] We changed to fewer results for some queries to show the most relevant results as quickly as possible.project “Other Ranking Components”] This change was a minor bug fix related to the way links are used in...
Google is also indexing structured data found in the form of schemas and microformats on websites, which it shares with the webmasters in Google Webmaster Tools. Editor's Note: With SES New Delhi on the way, our goal at SEW is to showcase marketing...
