Crawling - What is it? Crawling is a process used by search engines as part of information retrieval systems (i.e. web search systems which are a subsection of information retrieval as a discipline). Crawlers (A.K.A. spiders or bots) traverse the web via links or...
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you set up a domain property in Google Search Console you will not yet have access to all of the features from the old Google Search Console. For example, the disavow file upload, crawl stats and more. You will still need to add additional...
Website Speed and SEO Website speed and SEO go hand in hand. Google have announced that as of July 2018 there will be a ranking boost available on mobile for faster sites over slower ones. Now the mobile-internet revolution is in full throttle and continuing to...
HTTPS - What Is All The Fuss About? HTTPS is part of internet security online HTTPS uptake is growing. Although the internet is amazing for many reasons, one of the negative aspects of the online sphere is security. It is a priority for search engine companies and web...
According to Google, around 15 per cent of searches performed by end-users on a daily basis are unique. But also ambiguous! In the past, the search engine giant was not able to handle this category of searches effectively – despite their best efforts. When Google...
Scraper Bots & Spam Bots Create Havoc With a Website Have you ever had a moment when you find a spike in your analytics data and think, “yes, now were rocking!”? Then on closer inspection you find the reason for the spike is spam. It happens. It sucks! Spambots...
Are infinite loops, dirty architecture and too many indexed URLs ruining your website? Crawl Rank and Crawl Tank One of my own projects is a site which I founded in 2008. As a result of negative experiences hiring web developers and SEO service providers I undertook a...