This is usually a bad idea, because it passes no equity and search engines can’t crawl what’s excluded in robots.txt. Another thing you can do to help your crawl efficiency is to monitor your indexation accurately by using segmented XML files ‐ you...
Once you have your crawl report, dig into the source code to find any problems. And that includes making sure you aren’t throwing the search engine bots for a loop (which happens often). The great news is that this is typically a quick fix.
Crawling is also a high priority for us and as many have seen over the past year, we’ve continually ramped up our crawl pace and depth. If the content looks like it'll be useful, the site has a history of providing useful content, etc.then we'll...
Twitter has updated their robots.txt file to allow search engines to crawl more of the site. Twitter doesn’t have sidebar ads, so having search engines crawl and index tweets may draw in users, but doesn’t make them any money.
We also recently had an office pub crawl and got a few shoutouts from the bars we went to. For example, in Greensboro it's big news that we have a Downtown Greenway. Big local news can lead you to amazing places for local links.
Blog more and blog regularly: Writing content that is useful for end users will not just increase your reader base but force search engines to crawl, index, and rank your site. Unfortunately, innocent bystanders report they are taking a hit with...
Integration of social data hub data applies to public data only; if Google can crawl it on the public web, they can show it. Speaking at SES New York this morning, Google shared the news of the immediate, incremental launch of their new Social...
The content that doesn't change as fast, we don't crawl as often. This is simply the same thing that search engine personalization is evolving into. A brand that delivers content through news outlets, a brand that is engaged in social media, a...
While the fundamentals of organic search optimization remain important – such as ensuring you have a strong technical website that the search engine robots can crawl, and addressing local search and industry-specific directories for backlinking...
Being able to crawl Twitter is one thing. We think that’s bad for people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users. There has been much speculation and proselytizing from news outlets and the world of social on whether or not Twitter is...
The content partners feed their database content by allowing Naver to crawl and index their results within their search result pages. Hence, Naver offers the search results of the various areas and categories such as news, Knowledge Qs “awesome.
Much like the standard XML sitemap you created for your site pages, the XML file will be housed on your server as well as in your Merchant Center profile where you can also indicate a daily crawl request.
Some aspect of this upward and downward linking across categories is likely to occur, but it should be de-emphasized in order to keep the most tight and narrow crawl path for search engines. Cross-category links can be valuable, however, when a...
Google looks at several signals and will reassess when it does its next deep crawl of your site (remember, Google has said that individual shallow/thin pages can drag down the entire "score" of a website).
Is Google able to crawl protocols other than http and https? Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to Feb.as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework Google Trends -- Put simply, this tool provides a trended representation of the most popular topics and search queries, and helps explain the context of those terms using content segmentation...
Looking for Input on Crawl Delay - Bing Webmaster Center Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Oct.to 22, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
Bing said sites shouldn't experience a significant increase of the total crawl traffic from MSNBot and BingBot for any extended period. If your sites are configured for any special handling based on user agent (such as via the .htaccess file), you...
Adobe has filed for a patent that would enable search engines to crawl rich media format through an annotation-based system. An overview of some of today's search, ad, tech news According to embodiments of the invention, a developer annotates...
At a search conference in 2008, SEO Jonah Stein said that crawl rate was the new PageRank. And we've already determined the importance of crawl rate. We've had tremendous success with search engine optimization (SEO) assignments, often by doing...
