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Search Engine Watch
September 8, 2010
Ralph Tegtmeier |
The Daily Con Job: Rogue Spiders in the Wild If you thought that only humans were capable of pulling a fast one on you, think again: quite a few crawlers out there are not at all what they make out to be.   |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
Auction Search Case Awaits Ruling Is it legal to spider someone's web site without permission? We've never had a court ruling on this before, at least in terms of textual information, but that's expected to change shortly. |
Search Engine Watch
November 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The US White House & Blocking Search Engines At the end of last month, controversy erupted over the US White House preventing portions of its web site from being indexed by search engines. Was the White House doing this as a means to rewrite history unnoticed, or was it an innocent mistake? |
Search Engine Watch
May 8, 2008
Sage Lewis |
Giving Links Away There are a few ways of controlling what pages of your site share their link love. PageRank "sculpting" and siloing are two methods that use the "nofollow" attribute to control which links are counted in search engine ranking algorithms. |
Search Engine Watch
August 31, 2006
Tony Wright |
The Taming of the Bots All savvy search engine marketers know how to create a search-friendly site that can be easily read by a search engine spider, or bot. But what happens when those bots go bad? |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Adds More Fresh Pages, Changes Robots.txt & 403 Errors, Gains iWon Over the past month, Google has stepped up the number of pages that it is spidering on a daily basis in an effort to increase the freshness of its database. The search engine has also picked up iWon as a new customer for its search results. |
Search Engine Watch
August 12, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Proper SEO and the Robots.txt File By taking a good look at your Web site's robots.txt file and making sure that the syntax is set up correctly, you can avoid some search engine ranking problems. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Web Spiders List Planned Search engine spiders and crawlers with other purposes pose significant problems to site owners. In particular, they can skew page view statistics, which means that advertisers might pay for impressions that human beings never see... |
Search Engine Watch
January 12, 2011
Simon Heseltine |
Stop Making the 6 Biggest SEO Mistakes Have you fallen victim to these search engine optimization pitfalls in the past? If so, it's time to correct them. Now. |
Information Today
June 12, 2008
Avi Rappoport |
New Robots Exclusion Protocol Agreement Among Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft Live Search The search engines banding together and the publishers proposing their own solutions make it likely that there will be more conflict in the future with end users and libraries stuck in the middle. |
Search Engine Watch
July 29, 2008
Aaron Shear |
When's an Outage More than Just an Outage? In SEO for major sites, one of the most overlooked factors is uptime. How does an outage impact your SEO efforts? |
Search Engine Watch
August 22, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Image Search Faces Renewed Legal Challenge A look at the issues behind a case coming up for appeal in Sept. 2001 involving whether search engines have the right to index images without explicit permission, along with tips on how you can keep your images out (or in) image search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
August 25, 2010
Christian Arno |
SEO for Global Websites: Targeting the Right Search Engine for Your Market Developing search engine optimization tactics that are specific to each country's dominant search engine is just as important as creating language- and culture-specific websites. |
Search Engine Watch
December 19, 2007
Eric Enge |
Search Engine Visibility and Site Crawlability, Part 1 This is the first of two articles outlining and explaining the SEO problems two experts identified with dynamic Web sites and solutions. |
Search Engine Watch
December 20, 2007
Eric Enge |
Search Engine Visibility and Site Crawlability, Part 2 During the recent SES Chicago show Laura Thieme and Matt Bailey provided a great overview of the major issues confronting dynamic web sites. |
The Motley Fool
June 25, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Too Blue for Red China? Google is showing too much skin for China's comfort. |
Search Engine Watch
September 13, 2010
Josh McCoy |
Don't Let Small Disconnects Lead to SEO Disaster When SEOs and webmasters aren't on the same page, it can lead to listings dropping off search engine result pages. Here's how to avoid three common SEO blunders. |
InternetNews
July 1, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search Redmond tips its hand on its growing search plans as website operators notice increased traffic from MSNbot. Microsoft suggests a modification to the robots.txt standard. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2010
Bill Hunt |
Leveraging Baidu to Reach the Chinese Audience Escalated interest in reaching China, and the continued improvements to Baidu's platform, has raised the need to take a deeper look at Baidu, and dispel some of the misconceptions and confusion about this growing search engine. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013
Kelly et al. |
A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in Web Archives Web resources are becoming increasingly personalized -- with changes result in multiple representations of a resource. We present a potential solution to generalize personalized representations in archives. |
