How To Do An Index Audit
Combine two powerful tools -- SEO Quake and Excel -- to perform an index audit, identifying missing pages.
Tested: The Best Length for a Description Tag is Longer Than You Think
Does Google see and use more of the description tag than the 160 characters - even though it will only show about 160 at a time? I decided to run an experiment to find out
Get Your New WordPress Blog Indexed In 24 Hours [checklist]
Going from zero to indexed with a new WordPress blog site. Here's how to get results in under 24 hours.
Test Case: Google, Yahoo, MSN: Finding new content
Joel Bresler emailed me this morning and since his email is self-explanatory, I present it here (slightly modified): ---------- I have recently launched a web site dedicated to the American folk song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd." The site presents an [...]
Matt and Big Daddy
While I was gone, everyone was buzzing about Matt Cutt's blog post, titled Indexing Timeline. I wanted to consolidate pieces of his post as well as his later comments in one place, so that those affected by the Big Daddy [...]
PR = Deep Crawl
During the Meet The Crawlers session at SES, someone asked why all of their pages weren't indexed. Google's answer: Every search engine crawls in a different way. Mentions vs indexed. There are instances where we know about the url, but [...]
