RG: For many years now, I have written that the game to watch in modern search is to find out which entity has both the best crawler-based engine technology, combined with the best human social layer.
The small image on the right of the dialogue box is the one image that is in the Google Shopping Feed for this particular Rock Crawler wheel. The image above shows the product annotation dialogue box for a Rock Crawler wheel in the Google Catalogs...
Note, you should use a crawler like Xenu or Screaming Frog to check broken links in bulk, but you can definitely pick up some problems using the web developer plugin on a page per page basis. Meet the Web Developer Plugin for Firefox and Chrome.
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. The problem is that the trick being used here suggests that those...
DuckDuckGo gets its results from over 50 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! He created DontTrack.us to educate users about search personalization and the myriad ways they are tracked...
Earlier this summer, Blekko upgraded their Scoutjet crawler to bring back more comprehensive, real-time data for SEOs. Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta confirmed the change to a subscription model and told Search Engine Land, “We offer the only web-wide set...
URLs as Bing, but given Google treats smartphones as desktop browsers (even with the new smartphone crawler) and your content rankings are not gaining any benefit from your shared m.links and.and.well again, why would you want two domain URLs?
If you don't have redirects in place, and are relying on users to click over to the mobile content, or are using a JavaScript take-over to suggest people click to go to the other content, then you aren't going to benefit from this new smartphone...
A Key Discovery from The Find’s Crawler Siva Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder of The Find told SEW that their crawler has discovered "50 million product pages have the Facebook Like button code, but only 1.8 million products have one or more Likes.
IIS crawler What are all the different things that happen when a web page is actually delivered to a screen? Even though SEO isn’t an entirely new subject, the speed at which it evolves means that you can’t be sure that someone with experience...
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.
FREE – Xenu: Run a crawler over your site and find all your broken links. FREE – Wirify: A fun tool that turns any web page into a wireframe. FREE – Firebug: This Firefox extension allows you to look at any page on the web as usual or select...
The discussion around the increased emphasis of Google+ in the SERPs has also brought with it some controversy around other social networks in the SERPs (such as Twitter and Facebook), and questions as to what Google does and doesn’t have crawler...
But now that a generation has passed and crawler technology is not as primitive as it was. Developers of content management systems, long the arch enemy of the crawler, build them with being "crawler friendly" in mind.
Additionally, Google is working with partners to receive up-to-date information about businesses and has trained its web-crawler to look for current business data. Google is giving more trust to user reports on the address, hours, and operating...
Check out your Robots.txt (Site configuration -> Crawler access). See what the most popular search queries are (Your site on the web -? Sometimes you can get invaluable information without involving a computer or the web at all.
Google News is now using the Googlebot instead of a dedicated crawler to examine web content. For the most part, the Googlebot has been set to behave identically to the news crawler when it comes to news content; a negative "Googlebot-News" entry...
Ultimately, speaking as a "search expert", I found following a mixture of users and media types on Twitter on a small selection of keywords was more effective than a crawler-based search engine. All of this was done via social networks rather than...
Among other highlights in the litany of new features are: the ability to tell the Bing crawler to slow down indexing during specific hours; an all-new Index Explorer tool that lets you see a more up-to-date version of Bing's indexing details...
It's designed to be a powerful crawler that can be configured with regular expression to literally pull any field off a web page, including things like "content robustness" (crawling for thin content pages), analytics tags for any package, any...
