If you're having DNS issues, server connectivity issues, problems reaching the robots.txt file, or a laundry list of 404 errors, you can review them here and begin fixing them. Creating & Submitting Sitemaps
Use robots.txt to handle duplicate content. This is usually a bad idea, because it passes no equity and search engines can’t crawl what’s excluded in robots.txt. Robots.txt: As mentioned above, not the best idea
Important note: You should never, ever use automated translation – but if you must due to the nature of your industry or the size of your website, then make sure you use your robots.txt file to block search engines from crawling any auto...
Also, make sure that you include your XML sitemap location in your robots.txt file. Submitting your XML sitemaps directly to engines can help them to discover new content on your site. Google Webmaster Tools also provides detailed list of broken...
Recently, a client started receiving a series of notifications from Webmaster Tools about a big spike in crawl errors, including 403 errors and robots.txt file errors. To force recrawls, SEOs typically use tactics like resubmitting XML sitemaps, or...
One really nice feature here is that it shows the subdomains that have been crawled, so if a dev forgets to put the right robots.txt on your sandbox site you’ll see it listed here. Here’s where you can submit new sitemaps, and be informed of the...
You can also test out modifications to your robots.txt to see whether they’d work as you anticipate against various pages on your site. This section is the place to test out your current robots.txt against any pages on your site to verify whether...
This might include obvious sources and tasks you might overlook, such as analytics, sitemaps, your robots.txt file, and more. Google and Bing have a long and storied history of taking shots at each other whenever the opportunity presents itself and...
For the most part, the Googlebot has been set to behave identically to the news crawler when it comes to news content; a negative "Googlebot-News" entry in the robots.txt file will still halt just the news crawling, sitemaps will still be crawled...
Give mention to the file at the top of your robots.txt file as well because Google stops here first to see where not to go. Within this tool you can exclude all folders and pages included in your robots.txt file and create a standard XML sitemap.
URL structure and canonicalization, internal linking, rel=canonical tags, XML sitemaps, robots exclusions, should all follow canonical standards for your site. Bingbot supercedes msnbot, but the latter should still be used in robots.txt and...
Unlike the global engines, which have Webmaster portals, you have to tell Baidu where to find the files via your robots.txt file. Simply create a XML site map of all of your Chinese language pages and list the file location on your robots.txt file...
Robots.txt testing tool: Make sure you aren't accidentally denying/allowing access to certain pages. XML sitemaps: These have been around a while, and are well worth the time it takes to build them (71 percent of new URLs are found through sitemaps...
Multiple sitemaps on robots.txt Sep 3, 2008 Hi, How can I add different sitemaps on the robots.txt file? Google AdWords Separates Content and Search Network Stats - FINALLY! Google) Insights on VP Candidate Sarah Palin BRAND EQUITY The recently...
The sitemaps file then needs to be pointed to by the robots.txt file for the original domain. SEW Experts By The Numbers columnist, Eric Enge, CEO of Stone Temple Consulting, noted, "The announcement affects Web site owners who don't have the...
In part 1, we looked at three key problem areas with sites that have dynamically generated content: information architecture and keyword research; robots.txt files; and the use of Sitemaps. Like the Robots.txt file there's a strong potential for...
We've outlined three key problem areas with sites that have dynamically generated content: information architecture and keyword research; robots.txt files; and the use of Sitemaps. Unfortunately, one day during a site update they copied the whole...
This told me that page weight is not an essential factor in managing your crawl budget, but that tools like robots.txt and your sitemap file might be very useful in focusing the MSNBot crawler on the most important parts of your site.
This week, the three are joined by Ask.com in the effort, and the four search engines announced that all will begin supporting auto-discovery of a sitemap through a line of code in a site's robots.txt file, such as Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com...
Since crawlers check the robots.txt file when they initially visit a site, this directive will provide immediate notice of where the crawler should look to find the sitemap. First, Ask is now supporting the Sitemaps protocol.
