Archives Tag: Googlebot
Google Webmaster Tools Introduces “Labs”
Google Webmaster Central announced a new feature of Google Webmaster Tools: Labs. So far, there are only two features available in Labs. “Fetch as Googlebot” which will do a couple of things. It will first see if Googlebot is even allowed to fetch the page. Then it will make sure it returns a 200 status [...]
Full StoryHow Fresh is Your Content?
Matt Cutts in the video below, describes how Google [and googlebot] determines freshness of content. As a short recap of the video, dates on-page and in the URL are not indicators to googlebot of how fresh your content is, but rather it’s based on both the first time that googlebot visits your page and how [...]
Full StoryFix Those Broken Internal Links!
The Google Webmaster Central blog wrote a post a bit ago about how they updated the platform so users can now see where their broken links are. This is huge. Do not miss this. This means when googlebot sees a links and it leads to a dead end, you now can know about it. This [...]
Full StoryGoogle News: Tips for Successful Crawling
This article is coming directly from Google’s Help for Publishers: Tips for Successful Crawling, but I’m adding some emphasis on the points I think people often overlook. Tips for Successful Crawling Below are listed common crawling issues related to the article body that Googlebot extracts from the HTML page. You can also find some tips [...]
Full StoryLate April Fool’s Day Joke? Google to Crawl HTML Form Pages
When first reading the blog post published a few hours ago on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, the first thought that came to mind was, “hmmm, is this a late April Fool’s Day joke?” Why? Because what they are saying seems completely illogical and frankly, stupid. In the past few months we have been [...]
Full StoryGoogle Encourages Descriptive Anchor Text
Google Webmaster Tools are very useful and important to help determine how Google is indexing and seeing your website. One tool in particular is the “what Googlebot sees” tool. I wrote this article late last year on “Can Googlebot See You?” if you want some more in depth analysis about Googlebot. Here is a small [...]
Full StoryGooglebot Expands to World Domindexing
Robots and how they read (or don’t read) images has always been an issue. Google[bot] is finally starting the trek which will take the world down a read of being able to search for anything, anywhere. According to what Danny recently touched on, Google has filed three new patents: Recognizing text in images, Enhancing text [...]
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