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...
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).
It's undeniably exciting to see companies like BrightEdge and Conductor aiming to beat the black box of search engines by building their own crawler based solutions to monitor rankings. It's unusual and reminiscent of the traditional PR metric of...
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...
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...
Crawler: the main results are compiled by having crawled the web. For search engines where the main results come from human work, it's common for them to have a "backup" or "fallthrough" partnership with a crawler-based search engine.
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.
Crawler: the main results are compiled by having crawled the web. Crawler Crawler For search engines where the main results come from human work, it's common for them to have a "backup" or "fallthrough" partnership with a crawler-based search engine.
This doesn't replace the algorithmic [crawler-based” results," Ryan said. So when I searched for "thunderbirds," anyone one else in my network sees that query get listed in the "Your Friends Recent Searches" area in the right-hand column of the...
This doesn't replace the algorithmic [crawler-based” results," Ryan said. So when I searched for "thunderbirds," anyone one else in my network sees that query get listed in the "Your Friends Recent Searches" area in the right-hand column of the...
Search Engine Watch News + SES San Jose Agenda Now Available + Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine + Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads + Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To...
Crawler: the main results are compiled by having crawled the web. Crawler Crawler Crawler For search engines where the main results come from human work, it's common for them to have a "backup" or "fallthrough" partnership with a crawler-based...
Skeptics wonder why Google would need to buy Pyra to have access to these blogs, since most are accessible to Google's crawler anyway. Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time Dan Gillmor's eJournal, Feb.http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column...
Crawler: the main results are compiled by having crawled the web. Crawler Crawler Crawler Crawler Crawler Crawler Crawler Crawler Crawler Crawler For instance, the main search results at AOL come from Google's crawler-based listings, rather than...
