Posts Tagged ‘SEO’

Mar

Google’s SEO Report Card

Posted by: Horia Neagu in Google

In an effort to test their own Search Engine – friendliness, Google has released an SEO Report Card, concluding an internal research conducted on the homepages of 100 Google Products. The information provided is basic at best, but it does serve as a checklist to what Google officially considers to be SEO best practices. Thi is an interesting development of Google’s love – hate relationship with SEO and it certainly reassures us, in theory at least, that Google not only supports Search Engine Optimization, but also encourages its practice amongst its own services. One also has to wonder if this internal research has something to do with Google’s recent troubles in China… Perhaps Google is researching ways to tap into the SERPs of other Search Engines. Whatever the case may be, I personally think Search Engines can benefit immensely from the study of Search Engine Optimization and it’s hard for me to believe that Google has just now figured it out, so this SEO Report Card is most likely either a PR stunt or a sort of encouragement towards the market.

Google’s SEO Report Card is free to download. Happy reading!

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Oct

Did You Get The IP Address Of That Spider?

Posted by: Horia Neagu in SEO

I need not emphasize the importance of tracking the Search Engine spiders crawling record of your websites, need I? Whether you want to check the zeal and regularity of Search Engines in visiting your website, want to find out which specific pages were crawled, want to verify the obedience of crawlers towards your robots.txt file or you simply want to filter spider activity from your web metrics reports, you need to keep track of the various spiders and bots sent away to do the Search Engine’s dirty work. Provided here is a list of the IP addresses of the majority of Search Engine crawlers, for which I can’t take credit, which solely belongs to Dan Kramer of IPLists, whose efforts have made the world of Web 2.0 a better place. If you would like to do more than thank Dan for his efforts, you could buy him a drink.

Google IP List

Yahoo IP List

AltaVista IP List

Lycos IP List

Miscellaneous IP List

Non-SE Bots IP List

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