Loading ...If you have a website and want this website to be ranked highly in search engine results, this website must be easily accessible for the web crawlers and spiders that work for the search engines. The crawlers operate by visiting a website from other links to it and by collecting information from the website which they then store in their index. They use this information to help determine the ranking of the website in search results.
Crawlers are searching for new URLs to add to their index and new content and information within these URLs too. They will even visit the same web pages again and again in case new content is featured. Search engines like to keep their index updated and are always on the look out for new and relevant information that may be useful to their users. How a search engine crawler operates and what pages and in what order it chooses to visit can vary depending on the search engine. Many web pages that have been found by a crawler or spider due to a link may not have actually been visited by the crawler due to a number of different reasons.
Yahoo recently revealed an application for a new patent featuring a different process for determining which pages a web crawler visits and in what order these visits take place. This process would be based on the idea that it can be estimated which web pages will be the most searched for and which will be the most popular. These decisions would be made using query log history and by identifying which search terms are used the most frequently.
Previous crawling approaches have often been based on how important the pages the crawler visits are deemed to be, but this approach from Yahoo suggests that visits from the crawler should be based by the need for the content that features on these web pages instead. Yahoo also suggests it is of great importance to look for search queries that are receiving results that are not really relevant enough to ensure user satisfaction. This information would also be available from the query logs and previous search history details.
In this patent, the search engine would first consider URLs it has on file but that it has not visited yet and see which of these could be appropriate for the most frequently carried out searches where good quality results are not being given to the user. The words that feature within the URL, the link quality and quantity, the text that accompanies the links and the domain name could all be immediately helpful information when the crawler is looking for possibilities.
Ensuring the right pages of your website can be crawled by the appropriate and major search engine crawlers is of great importance and is a necessary part of search engine optimisation. SEO Consult can give you the knowledge and advice you require so you can understand and work effectively with the search engine crawlers to improve the ranking of your website through ethical and efficient search engine optimisation.
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