Posts Tagged ‘ robot Search Engine Crawl ’

Search Engine Ranking Factors and Sensors

December 6, 2009
By Jeff Selig
Search Engine Ranking Factors and Sensors

According to Matt Cutts at Google, there are some 200 variables in the Google Algorithm.  Each factor unto itself is less than the sum of the parts. The key idea is to efficiently compute for each sensor an estimate of the probability that it matches the query and process sensors in the order of...
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Search Engines, keyword stuffing and spam

October 10, 2009
By Jeff Selig
Search Engines, keyword stuffing and spam

Photo by pyratorKeyword stuffing is a technique used – and overused – by SEOs to recharge keywords on a site so that search engines find it more relevant to those particular keywords. This technique is based on one factor that search engines weighed to determine the relevance of a document X for a keyword. This...
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Control your robot searches: Search Engine Crawl

June 10, 2008
By Jeff Selig

Controlling what content is blocked from being found in search engines is crucial for many websites. Fortunately, the major search engines and other well-behaved robots observe the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), which has evolved organically since the early 1990’s to provide a set of controls over what parts of a web site search engines...
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