Webmaster Tools - Crawl Errors The Crawl Errors report is is one of my favorites offered in Google Webmaster Tools. The SEO Starter Guide is filled with Google's advice on best practices to make it easier for search engines to crawl, index, and...
This is usually a bad idea, because it passes no equity and search engines can’t crawl what’s excluded in robots.txt. Another thing you can do to help your crawl efficiency is to monitor your indexation accurately by using segmented XML files ‐ you...
Crawlability, including XML sitemaps, navigational structure, rich media cautions, graceful degradation, URL structure, robots.txt, crawl rate, access and instruction for Bingbot to crawl the site, and using Ignore URL parameters, where appropriate.
While reviewing the pages crawled per day in Google Webmaster Tools, I noticed that out of the gate we had an instant crawl of nearly all site pages. I fervently monitored post launch metrics, page crawl rate, 404s, indexed pages, and so on as any...
Run a site spider crawl of the live site to get a good list of URLs on the current site. Note the average time for Google to download a page and average pages crawled per visit in Google Webmaster tools.
Crawl Rate Crawl Stats In the Crawl Stats area graphs displaying the past 90 days of Googlebot activity can be seen. Crawl Errors By identifying which pages aren't necessary for Google to crawl, Googlebot can focus on the canonical pages and save...
There are many common issues that impede a search bot's ability to crawl your site. You don’t want technical issues to make it difficult for search engines to crawl and index your site, as that will make it tougher to rank highly and cost you...
If Google can’t crawl and see how many people you follow or who follow you, they can’t use that as a reliable signal. Google isn’t able to crawl Facebook, either because people set their profiles to private or Google is blocked from crawling.
Last year, Google updated "Fetch as Googlebot" in Webmaster Tools (WMT) with a new feature, called "Submit URL to Index," which allows you to submit new and updated URLs that Google themselves say they "will usually crawl within a day.
You’d only really do this if you witnessed server issues due to Google’s crawling, for the most part you’re going to let Google figure out what the correct crawl rate is for your site based on how frequently you add and update content.
Crawl Management: This function alerts webmasters as to how Bingbot crawls the website and controls how often and how hard Bing crawls site. This is good for organizing and prioritizing times to crawl website against traffic patterns and times of...
While it's likely Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social signals are being incorporated somehow (as long as they're available through the crawl), without direct access to that data, and without knowing its intricate relationships, Google...
Spiders decide what pages to crawl based on URLs placed in a queue from previous crawls and that list is augmented with URLs from XML sitemaps. The following is a quick overview of search engine sitemap guidelines and limitations followed by a...
However, it's also possible that Bing's increased crawl rate has left it with a few more results that are indicative of the blackout, instead of what a site's content actually is. Far noted in his post that the reduced crawl rate shouldn't have...
The main benefit of internal link optimization is to ensure search spiders discover (crawl) all pages by following links, users are able to visit from one page to another (in the same theme), and all links make use of keyword rich anchor text.
Some aspect of this upward and downward linking across categories is likely to occur, but it should be de-emphasized in order to keep the most tight and narrow crawl path for search engines. There are other ways to accomplish the same thing, via...
Internally called "Honey Badger," the updates to Bing's webmaster tools adds three new features: crawl delay management, index explorer, and user and role management. Crawl delay management allows webmasters to configure the BingBot crawl rate for...
However, now that they drive Yahoo's index, you need to make sure that they index all of your site pages and keep tabs on their indexing and crawl frequency. Google doesn't provide cool new features in Webmaster Tools, Analytics, and the SERPs...
Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework Google Webmaster Tools -- The definitive tool enabling webmasters to diagnose Google search indexing issues, research keyword visibility (impressions, clicks, click-through rate, average position...
Looking for Input on Crawl Delay - Bing Webmaster Center Why doesn't the clickthrough data in Webmaster Tools match what I see in Google Analytics? Click Forensics reported that the overall industry average click fraud rate rose to 22.3 percent, up...
