Because there is no opportunity to find the global page, there is obviously no internal linking benefit nor spidering benefit without a selector. Usability: If it isn’t easy to locate, use, or otherwise just unclear, you may be losing a massive...
In early 2010, the big G changed their policies and aggressively started going out and spidering sources (including Yelp) that they didn't have partner agreements with and using their content in their search listings and then Google Places, Google...
As YouTube says, "After determining the content of the video using our spidering technology, YouTube combines sophisticated text-matching techniques to find videos that are both important and relevant to your search.
Make sure your content is relevant to your target keyword, encourages spidering, and (most importantly) engages the reader. Last time, I asked, "Are Rankings Still Relevant? This week, I pose a more personal question: Is your landing page relevant?
Spidering most major media sites as well as medical focused discussion groups, forums and publications, GenieKnows returns a thorough set of results. One of the few remaining independent engines of note, GenieKnows adopted what was considered a...
In the first line you specify what spiders you want to block from spidering your content. However, links don't just go one way. You could, and probably should, occasionally link out to other sites. While you have no control over who links to you...
Do not make the robotic querying of Web site forms the default spidering practice for Google. UPDATE: Editors' Note: At the request of Google, we've removed the photo of Google engineer Jayant Madhavan, co-author (with Alon Halevy) of the Google...
Effectively using page titles as ad copy depends on spidering (define) frequency. Meta tags, links, metadata, content, relevancy, competition, and page title all affect page ranking. The HTML title tag, an element that tells searchers what your...
The first two steps are necessary to attempt to have the trademark removed from the infringer's web copy, which would be updated in the next spidering of the search engine's organic results. In our previous article, we covered the law fundamentals...
How much effort Google decides to put into spidering a site is a secret, but it's influenced by PageRank. Many people obsess about every word Matt Cutts says, but there are plenty of other Googlers that can teach us a thing or two about Google's...
Speaking at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) last week, Wales announced that Wikia has acquired Grub, the distributed search spidering technology previously owned by LookSmart, and will begin using it to build an index for the Search...
Speaking at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Wales announced that Wikia has acquired Grub, the distributed search spidering technology previously owned by LookSmart, and will begin using it to build an index for the Search Wikia project.
Make sure you are not disallowing mobile crawlers from spidering your site. Yahoo, Google, Nokia, and JumpTap offered a fascinating glimpse of developments at the major mobile search engines recently, revealing an inside view of how mobile search...
Do a deal, the issue over spidering goes away -- and Google can host news content on its own site. The Multilingual Search Blog covers Exalead CEO Francois Bourdoncle taking a big stick and swinging at
Google highlighted this as providing new uses rather than a solution to the legal challenges over spidering and thumbnail image use. Google News Belgium, unless those publisher decide to specifically block spidering, which Google would almost...
Pandia also covers how in Denmark, publisher opposition apparently created the unprecedented case of Google asking for permission to index news sites, rather than the normal case of spidering and requesting an opt-out.
It took nearly a decade for the search engines to go from unifying around standards for blocking spidering and making page description to agreeing on the nofollow attribute for links in January 2005.
Earlier this month we reported on Google's Spam Score Details, but no one knew what it meant exactly. Todd Malicoat took a peek into the Google algorithm a week ago with his best guesses on what each value represents.
Hacking, to me assumes malicious intent and we never intended to imply that Google was doing anything other than spidering all the web sites available. Catawba County Schools in North Carolina obtained an injunction to remove private material...
Ability to add keywords to an AdGroup when accessing the keyword tool from the tools menu.add custom text' under the site spidering section of the keyword tool. I reported this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable on Small But Important New...
