From Google's perspective you might think of this as "Index Deserves Quality" (note I am sure they would not call it that, but it works for this discussion). While the organic search traffic to this particular set of pages was lost forever, the...
Essentially, the index reflects how often a website shows up in the search results. Looking at this historical, top-level view of the site’s visibility in the search engines allows for both problems as well as improvements to be quickly identified.
Google doesn't have to delete sensitive personal information from its search engine index, according to a recommendation to the European Court of Justice. It was part of a case brought against the search engine firm by a Spanish citizen looking to...
Fleck then asked, "How does something that builds a connected Like or connected Fan give us that data layer in Social that allows us to begin to target on things like categories, content segregation, social linking index, and so forth ‐ so that we...
This is a clear admission that yes, negative SEO does exist and it can result in third parties being able to remove competing sites from the Google search index, or at least negatively impact their search rankings.
Results are curated from Blekko's own original search index, Dynamic Inference Graph (DIG) algorithm and editorial evaluation. Blekko, the "spam-free" search engine is on a mission to differentiate from the competition, and has been since launching...
Impact in the form of increased organic search traffic and conversions, expansion of keywords you are being found for, content footprint index, etc. Are our efforts helping us reach our organic search goals?
If your content is buried a dozen clicks deep or if it's orphaned entirely, that content can drop out of the index or won't have enough link equity to outrank competitor documents, rendering those pages useless from a SEO perspective.
In 2012 we saw the removal of BuildMyRank from the index just prior to Penguin. This prospect creates fear for many small businesses who depend on search engine optimization (SEO) for their livelihoods.
Build HTML and XML site maps to ensure search engines correctly index your site during the crawling process. Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results.
Depending on what local content it pulls in from Bing, Facebook's search's index could be throttled by the primary content within its walls. The true pace of mobile and local search can be seen when the market withstands an entire column's worth of...
For example, if a page falls below a certain threshold for the metrics that are most important to a business, CQM users can set a rule to de-index that page, or if the page isn’t live yet, it can be rejected.
Many sites lost between 60 and 70 percent (or more) of their pages in the index on the first go around. But if you're doing it today, make sure it's original, unique, relevant and well written or you put yourself at a risk for potentially vanishing...
Since launching universal search results in 2007, Google has been integrating many more non-traditional search results, adding videos, news stories, sports scores, products, images, maps, and reviews into what was once traditional organic search...
Google uses web crawlers (a.k.a.bots or GoogleBot) to find and index web pages by following links. If you make your good content really hard to find, then Google can't crawl, index, and rank your content.
I would no-index these pages. Looking at your entire index through the lens of a website indexation audit will allow you to gain an understanding of what Google sees and indexes. No index tagging or robots exclusion should be considered in this case.
To keep it simple, Google has an index of all of your current pages. If you wipe out your old pages then you wipe out Google's current index of your site. Just make sure the staging domain cannot be indexed by search engines!
The SEO Starter Guide is filled with Google's advice on best practices to make it easier for search engines to crawl, index, and understand your content. Penalties from Google can be detrimental to your sales if you are removed from the search index.
A quick look into the Audience Buying Power Index (source: comScore Core Search custom, December 2012) between search audiences is also telling: We all know audience is important, but exactly how important, is often overlooked in search marketing.
The Adobe Digital Index team looked at 19.6 billion video starts on media websites to confirm the growth of broadcast video consumption across connected devices. The Adobe Digital Index team explored these questions and several other topics that...
