Blekko has announced a major improvement to their free SEO tools, by way of more comprehensive, current crawl data from their Scoutjet crawler. Blekko's crawler now relays data to Blekko SEO tools in real-time, giving marketers access to the most...
Check out your Robots.txt (Site configuration -> Crawler access). Duplicate meta descriptions Missing meta descriptions Search queries). Google does a nice job with their tools, but allows you to get the viewpoint from a second search engine, and...
Go to Google Webmaster Tools and use the built-in robots.txt checker (you can find this in the Crawler Access section under Site Configuration). Google Webmaster Tools can give a quick report on duplicate title tags, missing title tags, short title...
All flash site - Very, very pretty, but not a great experience for a crawler. Just make sure you offer text link navigation options and use a technique like Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) to tell the crawler what is in the movie.
This team also works on other custom technologies such as the SiLK Crawler they designed to solve another client problem. These team members are also very skilled, and often specialize in advanced keyword research techniques, Title and META...
Slurp's Change of AddressYahoo's web crawler, affectionately known as Yahoo Slurp, will move from its domain of inktomisearch.com to crawl.yahoo.net. WebFetch, new meta search engine, launches in UKIn addition to web search results from Google...
A query on a crawler-based search engine often turns up thousands or even millions of matching web pages. More about the title tag can be found on the How To Use HTML Meta Tags page. Make sure there is an alternative method for them to enter and...
Submitting And Encouraging Crawlers Explains how to ensure that more of your content with a web site is indexed by crawler-based search engines. Blocking Crawlers With The Meta Robots TagExplains how to use this alternative to the robots.txt file...
ACAP will develop and pilot a system by which the owners of content published on the World Wide Web can provide permissions information (relating to access and use of their content) in a form in which it can be recognised and where necessary...
Those that say they do are merely making educated guesses at reverse engineering the crawler-based search engines. Occasionally, I get questions about what "numbers" or "rules" should be followed to construct the perfect page for each crawler...
Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine: Hmm. Maybe Google's not our friend and we should own our own crawler-based technology to protect ourselves. Maybe Google offering both paid and unpaid results really is an advantage and...
Gigablast Now Indexing More than 2 Billion Pages May 16, 2005 - Matt Wells over at Gigablast has had his web crawler really cranking lately. Hitwise: Meta Travel Engines Show Gains from MediaPost covers how stats from Hitwise show new meta travel...
When it comes to language, you need to understand that no major crawler-based search engine allows you to specify what language your page is in. Yes, there is a meta tag that is designed to help them.
Deep Submission Tools: Designed to submit many pages from your site to crawler-based search engines. Multisubmit Tools: Designed to submit your web site to hundreds of crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories at the same time.
There's a meta tag generator, a "Page Primer" analysis tool that offers basic advice for changes that may help with crawler-based search engines, a submission tool to send your URLs to many search engines at once as well as a "deep" submit of many...
Tips on writing copy that pleases crawler-based search engines and humans. Just saying you are Google does nothing to cause your browser to act the way Google's crawler actually does, any more than saying to someone that you are a famous movie star...
AltaVista's Scooter crawler begins trials These previously came from the World Wide Web Worm crawler that GoTo.com acquired in 1997. Dogpile, the meta search engine with the goofy name, opened its virtual door just after Christmas in 1996.
It covers key tips on getting important directory, crawler and paid listings with major search engines. This version of the article for Search Engine Watch members looks at some specific test queries for a rough sense of how the new search...
As for this submit URL that some may remember, it submits your page to the Yahoo crawler, which powers the current MSN Search, MSN says. I've yet to test this, but if so, I think it would make it the only major crawler that can spider frame content...
The former appears to be the internal address those within Microsoft can use to try out its own crawler-based search engine. Lets you search through RDF, RSS, web feed and XML content from across the web and provides the ability to narrow searches...
