Googlebot, as it is widely known, has always been a text-based web crawler, capturing the web by recording and organizing sites and pages looking at the code that makes up a site. That way the user, and visual crawler, doesn’t see the link and so...
This article is a simple breakdown of how to go about using an SEO site crawler to quickly identify duplicate content. Continuing on with the methodology of identifying duplicate content, by scanning the Page Titles column and looking for...
I asked Google for clarification on how they recommend the user agent detection for their crawler should be implemented. Today's column is going to discuss how to think about Googlebot, Googlebot-Mobile and your mobile web site.
Check out your Robots.txt (Site configuration -> Crawler access). Instead of following your instinct to yell at the person who made the request, today's column will outline a practical approach to doing the best job possible in one day.
Xenu Link Sleuth -- Best described as a PC-based crawler, this handy tool spiders your website for links and ensures they are valid, executable (when pointed at files), and search engine friendly (if redirects).
If not, you can use a site crawler or scraper. The first column will contain your keyword, naturally. Then mark them all as non-brand and paste the URL for each page next in the Landing Page column. Finally, the last column will contain your...
Now, getting all the internal link information for a specific URL on a domain you aren't affiliated with isn't trivial, and for these you'll need a robust crawler. By placing each of these metrics in a column for each URL and domain, you'll be able...
This is Google's fault because the crawler should always check that pages linked to from sitelinks aren't returning a 404 or other error code. I hadn't considered why a site would turn off its site links until your column.
Creating an intelligent crawler is one thing, but what about other, more basic tools that can be used to help improve SEO efficiencies? This week, SiLC, the “Super-Intelligent Link Crawler,"™ introduced in SMTrends in early 2007, became fully...
This team also works on other custom technologies such as the SiLK Crawler they designed to solve another client problem. So my last article was a bit of a breeze, being able to introduce this column, but I have a feeling readers will now want some...
Crawler Crawler For instance, the main search results at AOL come from Google's crawler-based listings, rather than from work inside AOL. Crawler: the main results are compiled by having crawled the web.
A query on a crawler-based search engine often turns up thousands or even millions of matching web pages. For example, picture a typical two-column page, where the first column has navigational links, while the second column has the keyword loaded...
Yahoo Blog Crawler Page Up For Site Owners Zunch Execs Depart, Form New Company Kinetic - Kevin Ryan, known to many for his search column at iMedia Connection, has departed along with four other Zunch Communications executives to restart a new firm...
Google popularized that, and all the search engines went the crawler/algorithm/automation route. Having said this, I was agast last year when some Wi-Fi exec likened Google to God in Friedman's column.
Here's a recent WebmasterWorld thread about visits from the Noxtrum crawler. No Search Is an Island is the first installment of iProspect founder Fredrick Marckini's new monthly column for CMO Magazine.
Accoona is running its own web crawler. Despite Accoona's rough edges, it's good to have another open web crawler out there. Result pages also look like what we see elsewhere (10 results per page) with paid listings in the right column.
With crawler listings, each page stands on its own merits, apart from others in your site. Tips on writing copy that pleases crawler-based search engines and humans. Just saying you are Google does nothing to cause your browser to act the way...
Yahoo main results come from its own crawler-technology. Search Providers: These are listed at the top of each column. A deal struck for backup results from the now Yahoo-owned AllTheWeb site was to expire on December 31, 2003.
Crawler For instance, the main search results at AOL come from Google's crawler-based listings, rather than from work inside AOL. Crawler: the main results are compiled by having crawled the web. Crawler
Yahoo main results come from its own crawler-technology. Search Providers: These are listed at the top of each column. A deal struck for backup results from the now Yahoo-owned AllTheWeb site was to expire on December 31, 2003.
