Crawlers or bots will scan web pages on your site for inclusion in the search index, but they will check your robots.txt file first for any instructions. You can also tell the crawlers which pages and directories you do not want included in the...
What if they were pushing the content in an iFrame, which would block the crawlers? The source code was examined to see if a noindex tag had been added in. Had they pushed a cross-domain canonical tag in the code to point to their own pages, thus...
A search engine sends out agents (a.k.a.spiders, robots, crawlers) to surf the Internet and bring back what they find and deposit that information in the search engine's databases. The meta keywords tag is sometimes useful as a way to reinforce the...
This is known as a "deep submit," and the Submitting To Search Engines & Encouraging Crawlers article explains the concept in more depth. Meta Tag Checkers: Less ambitious than page analyzer tools, these tools are designed primarily to determine if...
MultiSite and MultiDomain Issues + Meet the Crawlers + Big Sites / Big Brands Peter Da Vanzo's 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article over at SearchEngineBlog.com (soon to gain the rightful tag, The Original Search Engine Blog) not only...
MultiSite and MultiDomain Issues + Meet the Crawlers + Big Sites / Big Brands Meta Tag Lawsuit Filed in Florida By Gary Price, Dec. Peter Da Vanzo's 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article over at SearchEngineBlog.com (soon to gain the...
Keep search engines in mind before you make your edits, and you might get rewarded for retaining copy that reads well and also pleases crawlers. Meet The Crawlers SearchDay, July 21, 2004 http://searchenginewatch.com/_subscribers/ articles/article...
Meet The Crawlers SearchDay, July 21, 2004 http://searchenginewatch.com/_subscribers/articles/article.php/3383881 With only minor work to tag my photos, I can now instantly find all those showing my kids, my wife, taken at Disneyland, at Stonehenge...
Crawlers face another legal roadblock, due to a injunction last month preventing Verio from running a robot to gather potential customer leads from Register.com's publicly-accessible WHOIS database. They also operate powerful crawlers.
Traditionally in web search's short history, this has been the mechanism of either crawlers or humans finding information from across the web, in order to provide the most comprehensive results possible.
Is paid inclusion for crawlers like AllTheWeb and Ask Jeeves/Teoma worth the bother? Can you make search engines revisit your site more often by using the meta revisit tag? If I have the word, "marketing" in my meta tag keyword list, and someone...
Database of search engine crawlers and other types of spiders that roam the web. Meta search engine that uses Vivisimo's clustering technology plus provides a traditional list of consolidated web results from various search engines.
Also see the Dynamic Pages & Search Engines article for more about issues between crawlers and dynamic pages. The Submitting & Encouraging Crawlers page also has tips on site architectural changes you can do to help improve the odds that your pages...
You can find a list of Add URL pages on the Submitting To Crawlers page. Crawler-based search engines generally have not depended on the HTML language meta tag to classify pages by language. The charset meta tag has also been used.
Will the crawlers "see" the JavaScript-generated HTML or only the JavaScript source? The only HTML text is in the title and meta description tag. However, sometimes people have tried to "stuff" ALT text with repetitive keywords, in hopes of...
But overall, as you've seen, it's fairly easy to follow the instructions in the Essentials section and do this yourself with several of the crawlers and the Open Directory for free. The meta keywords tag is only supported officially by Inktomi, and...
In fact, the Search Engine Watch "members" version of my article about the decline of the meta keywords tag included a long look at how the meta description tag continues to be supported by crawlers (What's a Search Engine Watch member?
It is explained more on the How HTML Meta Tags Work page and also on the Blocking Crawlers With The Meta Robots Tag page, available to Search Engine Watch members. All the major crawlers support the meta description tag, to some degree.
In fact, the Search Engine Watch "members" version of my article about the decline of the meta keywords tag included a long look at how the meta description tag continues to be supported by crawlers (What's a Search Engine Watch member?
It's hard to know exactly how the few remaining crawlers that use the meta keywords tag would deal with this, but most likely, they'd only record information in one of the tags -- probably the last one.
