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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
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. |
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
November 18, 2003
Shari Thurow |
Search Engines and Web Server Issues What is the best way to move a site from one server to another without affecting search engine visibility? After a site redesign, how can you communicate to the search engines that old URLs should be redirected to new URLs without affecting positioning? |
Search Engine Watch
August 11, 2009
Eric Enge |
The 60 Minute SEO Site Audit Site audits are one of the most important tasks for an SEO professional, and sometimes you need to do one quickly. Here's how you can complete an SEO audit for your web site in one hour or less. |
Search Engine Watch
April 25, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site Google has added a disclaimer to the search results that come up in a response for a search on jew, to counter complaints about an anti-Jewish site that until recently ranked number one. |
Search Engine Watch
September 30, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Tin Foil Hat? I Have Mine On When Google advises against URL rewriting in their Webmaster Central blog, is there an ulterior motive? |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google News It was another busy month for Google, so here's a compilation of stories that cover its new news search service, a new Search Microsoft feature, how the Google Toolbar is being used to solve genetic puzzles and other items... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google: Can The Marcia Brady Of Search Stay Sweet? Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained. |
Search Engine Watch
November 7, 2003
Chris Sherman |
Google's Deskbar A new Google Labs experiment called the Google Deskbar is a search application that lets PC users perform Google searches at any time from any application. Like the HotBot Deskbar, the Google Deskbar is a free software download that appears as a search box in the Windows taskbar. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change. |
Search Engine Watch
August 4, 2010
Ralph Tegtmeier |
Bye-bye, Crawler: Blocking the Parasites Why not all spiders are created equal -- and what you can (and should) do about quite a few of them. |
Search Engine Watch
February 28, 2011
Ray "Catfish" Comstock |
The Canonical Tag Can Save You from the Duplicate Content Monster How the very useful rel="canonical" tag solves many common SEO problems that exist around duplicate content issues. |
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
September 16, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
China's Great Wall Against Google And AltaVista So can people in China get to Google or not? Yes, apparently so. However, there are still reports of trouble when conducting particular searches, which suggest that some selective blocking is happening. Meanwhile, the situation with AltaVista being blocked appears to continue. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Does PDF & Other Changes Google now includes listings of Adobe PDF files from across the web, a first for any major search engine and a feature long overdue for them to offer. By including PDF content in its listings, Google makes its service even more useful for those trying to get into the nooks and crannies of the web... |
InternetNews
October 23, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Gets Social Search Religion Google's Custom Search Engine is for individuals, organizations or business that want to add customized Google Web Search to their Web site or blog. |
Search Engine Watch
October 7, 2010
Mathieu Burgerhout |
Why You Should Prevent Certain Pages From Being Indexed All pages are not created equal. Having fewer "unimportant" pages of your site indexed will put more emphasis on your "money" pages. |
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. |
ONLINE
November 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Freshness Issue and Complexities with Web Search Engines Understanding the currentness (or freshness) patterns of the search engines' databases helps the searcher to better understand the results and what might not be found... |
Search Engine Watch
October 11, 2010
Josh McCoy |
Your Evil Twin: Identifying and Managing Duplicate Content Duplicate content can keep you out of the SERPs. A host of tools can help you identify and manage duplicate content. |
PC World
June 2003
Steve Bass |
Maximum Google Google is fast, accurate, and fun to use, but you can get even more out of the boss of search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Google Goes Forward While I've considered Google a "major player" in the search space for some time, the deal with Netscape gives it a mass audience for the first time, along with its first business deal. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Case Studies Real life stories of how sites were impacted by the recent Google ranking changes, with an analysis of factors that may be in play. |
Search Engine Watch
July 31, 2008
Sage Lewis |
Link Building: Understand Where You Are To Know Where You're Going In link building, if you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up someplace else. |
Search Engine Watch
February 27, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Nice To See Google Back On Track! Will it last? - Anybody Experienced With URL Rewrite for IIS? - The -Noblog Option or Blog Tab: Can It Be Done? - SEMPO - Yahoo Recommends Keywords META and Image ALT Text - Yahoo Versus Google On Redirect Handling - Who Links to My Site? |
InternetNews
May 6, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Tips From the Search Crowd You want to make sure the search engines find your site and rank it well? Follow some basic rules of the information highway, search experts say. |
Search Engine Watch
March 12, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Yahoo! Answers Site Match Questions - Yahoo Blocking Affiliate Sites - Are All Links Equal? - Google Not Following Robots Tag - Nested Tables and Google - So What Does SEMPO Mean To You? - Can Search Spiders Follow PPC Links? |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Going Beyond HTML Raises Security Concerns With Google Now that Google is indexing a wide range of document types beyond HTML and plain text formats, potential security concerns are cropping up, both for searchers and webmasters... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2015
McCown et al. |
Tools for Discovering and Archiving the Mobile Web Many websites are adapting their content for users who are accessing the Web using smartphones and tablets. The growth of this Mobile Web has required web archivists to change their practices in order to collect this ephemeral web content. |
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
March 10, 2005
Chris Sherman |
New Customization, Personalization Features at Google News Google has enhanced its news service with a number of new features that make it easy to modify your own version of the Google News page by adding or deleting sources, and to share the customized page with others. |
Search Engine Watch
May 11, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Official Google Blog, Not Blog Search Google has launched its own official blog, promising much insight about the company though not yet delivering much. The company also says it has no news about long-discussed plans to offer blog or web feed searching at Google. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2002
Greg R. Notess |
The Wayback Machine: The Web's Archive Starting in 1996, the Internet Archive has been storing Web pages, including graphics files, from publicly accessible Web sites that Alexa has crawled. With the October 2001 launch of the Wayback Machine, this huge archive is now freely available to the Web public... |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
November 4, 2008
Mark Jackson |
SEO Site Review: Custom Creations, Unlimited The author performs his quarterly SEO site review, and this time the subject promises to implement his recommendations. Like many Web sites, it isn't in bad shape from a SEO perspective, but it is a great example of the importance of the little things. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Google Announces Largest Index Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index of 560 million URLs in June, making it the largest search engine on the web.... |
Search Engine Watch
September 16, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Hosting Issues and SEO When it comes to server issues, many of us would rather not get into the down-and-dirty details. But knowing the basics of server response codes - and when to use them correctly - is critical for any competitive Webmaster or search marketer. |
Information Today
October 7, 2002
Marydee Ojala |
Google Expands Google News From its former hundred or so sources, Google News has expanded to 4,000 English-language news sources that it crawls continuously. |
Search Engine Watch
November 10, 2009
Mark Jackson |
SEO Site Review: Beadsbug.com Mark offers tips for improving Web sites using basic search engine optimization tactics, including title tags, resolving duplicate content, link building, and much more. |
Search Engine Watch
November 16, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
Google Base Live, Accepting Content Google Base is now live for anyone to play with. Take a look at this new way for people to submit content to Google. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
Search Engine Watch
January 27, 2009
Mark Jackson |
SEO Web Site Review: Water Filter Corner This Web site recently launched and has several elements that need to be corrected to lay a sound foundation for future SEO success. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
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. |
ONLINE
September 2000
Bill Mickey |
When is a Billion Too Much? Some Web search engines are on the rampage to index as much of the Web as they can. When a search service finally does catch up with the entire publicly-available Web, will that database be the exclusive destination of searchers everywhere? I doubt it. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Ending The Debate Over Cloaking This article examines why people have traditionally cloaked content from search engines and how the issue is largely now about different standards for paid inclusion content. |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Desktop Search Launched The company released a new Google Desktop Search tool that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same way they use Google to search the web. Its ease of use, plus how it enhances the Google search experience, make it a compelling product to use. |
InternetNews
February 8, 2006
David Miller |
Google's Search Engine Smack Down BMW Germany is back after Google removed it from its search engine results. |
