Who’s Crawling My Site?
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With all of the talk about bots and spiders, don’t you ever wonder who’s crawling your site and how often? The answers are in your website’s visitor log reports, which you can easily access from your site’s control panel.
Your log file reports the search engine bots that have visited your site and when they visited, […]
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To WWW or Not to WWW?
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Just the other day I was reviewing a website. I typed “site:www.thedomain.com” into Google, and it showed 80 pages had been indexed. Good! Then I typed in “site:thedomain.com”, and only 4 pages had been indexed! Why the discrepancy?
Search engines may index two versions of a site (the www version and non-www version), and then penalize […]
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SEO mistakes you need to avoid
admin @ March 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Below are 8 SEO tips that can come in useful to any webmaster:
Frames. Pages use frames as “containers” to hold the actual content of the page; unfortunately, spiders cannot see into that content, making it appear the page contains no keywords, content, or other spider food.
Forms. Because bots cannot fill out forms or click on […]
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Managing Menus and Internal Linking on your Website
admin @ March 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Suppose you had a non-fiction book with no table of contents? Would you just start reading on page one clear through to end with no idea what is in the book?
Search engines have absolutely no patience with websites that do not provide a “table of contents” and easy navigation to all pages within the website. […]
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Dangers of using Dynamic URLs
admin @ March 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
While content management systems have made it simple to add new products to your ecommerce store, they create such long and complicated URLs for each product that search engines sometimes have trouble spidering them.
For example, if you are on a Linux server, your product URLs might look like this:
http://www.example.com/catalog.php?cat=keyword&product_id=3458
If you are on a Windows server, […]
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