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Last I checked, a web page had to be on the web in order for Google to crawl the page and serve it up in search results.  But then how does it crawl iTunes? On a recent search for “implus iphone application” I came across the iTunes store page ranked at #8 in Google.

Part of the Wonderful WordPress Wednesdays Series - Previous in series Welcome to the third installment of my Wonderful WordPress Wednesday series! Over the last two weeks we looked at simple steps you could take to improve the efficiency of your WordPress blog.

From time to time you will come across a blogger who wants to prevent their Blogspot blog from appearing on search engines. Under the “listing’ and ‘let search engines find your blog’ settings in Blogger they have chosen no for both of the following: “Add your blog to our listings” and “Let search engines find your blog”, yet still their blog can be found listed on Google.

A Google Groups thread has a detailed discussion around the topic of Google spider, GoogleBot, crawling too much. Sometimes servers can be overwhelmed by all the traffic it gets and automated crawlers, such as GoogleBot, can add a tremendous amount of stress to a server that is already stressing.

MarketingVox has a great article on how to increase Googlebot’s crawl visits and site indexability. The Googlebot visits some sites more often than others. Often indexed sites are thought to be more appealing to Google and on searches, they’re likely to appear higher for relevant keywords.

I skipped the Q&A last week in order to get some good questions rolling in the door and to find a good day of the week to commit to the feature post. I’ve settled on Thursdays for the Q&A with GrandmasterB feature; since it allows me to get things caught up over the weekend and [...]

SEO - Adopt It And They Will Come SEO, it is the life blood of which most traffic will visit your site. Let’s face it, you’d have to be very lucky to purchase a domain that people are going to physically type into an address bar. Most of your traffic will be coming from people using a search engine, specifically Google.

Search engines where would we be with out them; well if you can remember the pre-google era your older then me :p With these the mass hub that we call the internet becomes navigable and we find what we want with a lot of ease. Though with the good of this technological must have it brings it own security risks.

Just wanted to pose an interesting question? What happens when search engines change their relevance model?, (change happens). When you consider SEO and search engine relevance, what matters most is getting in the search index and maintaining an upward trajectory.

If you are a website owner, you know the reasoning behind the questions. No, we are not talking about physical robots in general, but rather the language of robots. Anyone who is familiar with the famous Google robot - Googlebot, know how important it is to be able to understand the language of robots to protect your site.