It may take some time before our indexing and ranking systems are updated to reflect the new status of your site. Build a glossary: The Search Engine Marketing Glossary at SEOBook is packed with useful definitions and explanations.
This Day 3 session (more details here) will look at the array of SEO tools available on the market across indexing, competitive analysis, diagnosing and remedying problems, page and site-level information and on-page optimisation.
It’s important to keep in mind that not everything is worth indexing. And while we're talking expectations, it’s smart to keep in mind that there is no guarantee for crawling, indexing, and ranking. For many years, Matt Cutts of Google has been...
Footnote 2: Definitely check the indexing status in Google Webmaster Tools instead of using the "site:" query operator in a Google search, because the Webmaster Tools number is the "real number" and what you get from a site:query is not.
Make sure that any redirects produced by your CMS return a 301 header status code and not a 302 to ensure proper indexing. Search engines have a very difficult time understanding frames and can't properly index iframe content (the engine will...
Make sure your CMS system is professionally evaluated for these issues as some of them can cause major problems with indexing and ranking. You have to put yourself in a search engine's shoes and really evaluate whether your content could be...
The goal was to drastically change the search indexing infrastructure. With the official launch in 2010, Google called it “whole new web indexing system” generating 50 percent fresher results than their previous index.
Indexing Issues and Poor SEO? The indexing of variations not only of blog.spreadingsantorum.com and spreadingsantorum.com (with and without www), but also www.spreadingsantorum.com/index2.html. Search Engine Land entertained quite a few...
Check to make sure if you’re migrating to a new system or page design that there are no site-wide or technical issues that could cause indexing or ranking issues. If you don't give search engines exact instructions of where to find content as it...
PageRank is just one of many factors that Google employs for indexing sites and ranking them. The algorithm itself is described in Brin and Page's seminal paper, "Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Search Engine.
Does indexing a mobile website create a duplicate content issues? Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to 22, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
Google Webmaster Tools -- The definitive tool enabling webmasters to diagnose Google search indexing issues, research keyword visibility (impressions, clicks, click-through rate, average position, position distribution), article popularity on...
Some extreme examples of how good Goodzer is at indexing shops and how it offers more choice to the user are below: Today, software engineers Dmitry Pakhomkin and Artem Zarutskiy, have launched a location based search engine called Goodzer to find...
Google Indexing Text In Flash Files by Jonathan Allen Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Nov.to 19, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
If you can find an SEO agency that's happy to show you exactly what they do in building links, in investigating indexing issues, in understanding competitor site profiles, etc.then you can be more confident in seeing the value that they're adding...
The patent itself deals with indexing and retrieval of blogs. The festival is packed with sessions covering PPC management, keyword research, search engine optimization (SEO), social media, ad networks and exchanges, e-mail marketing, the real time...
Furthermore, aligning its corporate brand with software as opposed to say, indexing data, works towards Google's advantage in the public eye. John Battelle - Google will make a corporate decision to become seen as a software brand rather than as...
Then check the indexing stats available within Google Webmaster Tools (the results are often quite different than what you see with the "site: command"). If you were a search engine, how would you treat a site that looked like it had 20,000 pages...
And now, Yahoo has plans to roll out updates to its crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week.
Googlers working on the Web spam team or search engine crawling and indexing have also addressed the issue at public events. Twice, the answer has been that cleaning up these scenarios and moving the unique text toward the top of the page would...
