Tag Archives: search spiders

Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!

By Dave | Published: February 1, 2009
Thanks to Thomas from Luxury Normandy Gite for the idea for this post.  Once you understand that Google pagerank flows DOWN links, you begin to re-evaluate the links that you have on your website or blog. For example, if a vacation rentals directory insists on a reciprocal link, are you going to give them a [...]
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DMOZ editors for hire?

By Dave | Published: January 30, 2009
Shock!! horror!! Is nothing in this world sacred any more?  After a week of discussions in forums and on blogs about the value of a DMOZ listing for your website’s Page Rank, I’d kind of given up on getting Gite Guru listed in this mystical directory.  For those of you in the dark about DMOZ, [...]
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Getting found by search spiders

By Dave | Published: October 25, 2008
Part 3: Ensuring your website is found by search engine spiders There are three main ways that search spiders can find your site. The first is if you go to the search engine, find the ‘submit your URL’ page, and enter it. The second is to have other web sites link to you, as these links [...]
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Preparing your site for SEO

By Dave | Published: October 25, 2008
Part 2: Preparing your website for Search Engine Optimisation.  I’ve already mentioned that spiders ‘crawl’ links, but the most important factor to note is that search engines spiders cannot (currently) ‘read’ content within flash. So if your web site is all flash (cursor over the content and right click, if one of the items on the right [...]
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