The key realization here is that getting your indexing issues resolved and the keywords addressed is only the start of the SEO process. Footnote 2: Definitely check the indexing status in Google Webmaster Tools instead of using the "site:" query...
SEO Checker "helps you optimize the pages in your site for discovery and indexing by search engines. Content or markup follows patterns that may be associated with deceptive practices e.g.the content of the keywords meta tag is very long or...
Make sure to block spiders from indexing the staging server, and let them in where you want them to be on the production site. So why have a generic description tag on each page? Tailor your meta tags to the content of each page, target the right...
In addition to looking for duplicate title tags, make sure that your keywords are the first words in the title tag (and H1 tag). Then check the indexing stats available within Google Webmaster Tools (the results are often quite different than what...
While great for users, Flash still poses a challenge to search spiders as they're still working out the indexing kinks. Limit paragraphs to a few short sentences, break up copy with lists and sub-headers, and opt for the visual explanation over the...
Search engine spiders tend to give some weight to title tags for indexing purposes As you can see, incorporating a call to action with blended keywords can help your title tag stand out from all the other search results, which is especially useful...
Besides his charming British accent, Dan's a great speaker because he knows everything about Googlebots and indexing. Googlebots fetch pages, and then an indexing program analyzes the pages and stores a representation of the page into Google's index.
Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval" - part of the Google picture? Webmaster World "There are MANY ways of weighting (rankings) documents within the Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval system and as always, ‘playing with the dials’ will produce...
Over Meta Tag Keywords: The new medium of search collides with trademark law, for the first time. MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links: The first cooperative move for nearly ten years, where the major search engines unveiled a...
Did you have a meta keywords tag? Removing barriers to indexing. Did you put text into an H1 tag? Last year, I was amazed over an uproar that came out of a session we held at Search Engine Strategies San Jose last summer.
Or better yet, how about a coordinated summit among search engines and webmasters to advance the state of site indexing overall? The National Geographic Publications Index provides indexing (including subject descriptors) for every story, map, etc...
Or better yet, how about a coordinated summit among search engines and webmasters to advance the state of site indexing overall? How About An Indexing Summit! The National Geographic Publications Index provides indexing (including subject...
How About An Indexing Summit! How About An Ignore Tag? Will Branded Keywords Kill Search? I've found that by taking time to understand the "personalities" of each search engine, you begin to instinctively gravitate to one over another for different...
A report from ChinaTechNews says that Chinese search engine Baidu is recruiting technical staff, "to research and develop a new search tool for indexing millions of hours of movies. Peter Da Vanzo's 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article...
Issues with IP addresses, robots.txt files and firewalls as they pertain to search engine indexing are all covered in this article. Is the meta description tag still worth doing? The HTML title tag is one of the most important factors you can use...
Google needs to address this issue, perhaps by indexing blogs separately from web pages or by standardizing a syntax to suppress (or select) blog results. Agog about Google: Europeans tag along International Herald Tribune, March 17, 2003
A new tool makes it easy to recall everything you've seen on the web, automatically indexing all of this content and creating your own personal web archive. Does the exact order of elements within a meta tag make a difference to search engines?
The contest page has specifically banned them from indexing it using a meta robots tag. Those words in that tag makes the Dean page relevant in terms of actual page content. They may be responsible for why the Dean site now has the words...
News Robot Leads To Linking, Indexing Dispute The Search Engine Report, Jan. Has lots of links to related cases involving indexing and deep linking. Meta Tag Lawsuits The link above will take you to a page within Search Engine Watch that summarizes...
To them, aggressive means that they think they need to place H1 tags around everything, or that every ALT tag should be filled with keywords, or that they should use the useless meta revisit tag because somewhere, somehow, they heard this was what...
