Tools and software to manage AI crawlers accessing your site
Learn how to use AI crawler tools and software to optimize for AI crawlability, allow, block, or limit AI bots, audit crawling behavior, and implement controls.
Topic: Internet Information Services
Google Search Console URL Inspection tool: 7 practical SEO use cases
The URL Inspection tool reveals more than indexing status. Use it for live testing, debugging canonical conflicts, and more.
SearchCap: Google With Twitter Stream, AdWords Sneak Peek & Google Play Promo
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Top 10 Insights On Local Search & Marketing From The Experts At LSA 15 Columnist Wesley Young recaps some of the biggest takeaways from the 2015 Local Search Association Conference. Google […]
Bing Officially Releases Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0
After releasing a preview of the Bing sitemap plugin a few months ago, Bing is ready to officially launch the Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0 to the public. This sitemap plugin allows webmasters to easily create XML sitemap files for their websites that can be submitted to Bing Webmaster Tools or other search engines. It […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 21, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: How Account Quality Score Can Guide AdWords Optimization Last month, I covered four ways to use AdWords Scripts to improve AdWords account management. I didn’t share any actual code for fear […]
New: Bing Sitemap Plugin Helps Webmasters Create XML Sitemap Files
Bing announced, on its Bing Webmaster Blog, a new feature that helps webmasters create two types of XML Sitemaps. Bing created a server-side application that works on both IIS and Apache servers that helps you create a comprehensive Sitemap and, also, a recently updated Sitemap. The binaries can be downloaded at the Microsoft download site. […]
SMX Advanced 2012: Pagination & Canonicalization For The Pros
Pagination & Canonicalization For The Pros Presentations from SMX Advanced, June 2012 Using the pagination tag with optional parameters, sort orders, and filters. Are there still reasons to use robots.txt or noindex? Can a canonical tag really replace a 301? How do you keep your IIS=based site from infinite redirect loops when you canonicalize default […]
The Most Popular SEO Posts Of 2011
If there’s one thing anyone can say about the state of search engine optimization (SEO) in 2011, it’s that this year certainly wasn’t boring. Barely two months in, on February 24, 2011 – we were first introduced to the now infamous Panda Update at Google. That story alone gave our expert SEO columnists and staff […]
SMX Advanced 2011 Video: The Really Complicated Technical SEO Infrastructure Issues
The Really Complicated Technical SEO Infrastructure Issues Presentations from SMX Advanced, June 2011 It’s one thing to know you should use 301s, but how do you really implement that in an IIS 5.0 environment? Or as part of a server migration that includes resetting cookies for a new domain? Is Google’s crawlable AJAX standard the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 14, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Kills The Quarter: $9 Billion In Revenue Google had a huge Q2, with revenues of $9.03 billion — a new record. This represents growth of 32% over 2010. Net income […]
SMX West 2011 Slide Video: What’s Really Important for Technical SEO?
What’s Really Important for Technical SEO? Presentations from SMX West, March 2011 How do you prioritize improvements to technical architecture? What will make the biggest impact? Is it really all that important to speed up client-side page load times? Server side load times? Change your IIS configuration to stop generating those default.aspx pages and case-insensitive […]
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SEO focused videos, slide presentations, and podcasts recorded at various Search Marketing Expo conferences. To see the full presentation, click on either the screenshot, or the session’s title. SMX Advanced – June 11-12, 2013 – Seattle, WA Slides & Speaker Audio: From Microdata & Schema To Rich Snippets: Markup For The Advanced SEO Get your […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 12, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Goes Hollywood With New TV, Celebrity Shortcuts Citing the popularity of entertainment-related searches, Yahoo’s search results have gone Hollywood with the announcement of new search shortcuts for TV shows and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 3, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Suspends Local Listing Ads — For Now Today Google announced that the company was suspending Local Listing Ads, for the time being: “Starting today, we will no longer accept new […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 13, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Switzerland Suing Google Over Street View Switzerland is taking Google to court over privacy concerns related to Google’s Street View service. The BBC reports that Swiss privacy official Hanspeter Thuer is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 9, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google, Book Search Partners Ask For Four More Days Today is the deadline for Google and its partners in the Google Book Search settlement to submit a new version of the […]
Video Interview With Bing’s Webmaster Team
Rand from SEOmoz posted a 17 minute interview with the Bing webmaster team from Microsoft. In the interview he talks with Eric, Rajesh, and Alessandro from Bing about topics including market share, the Yahoo deal, SEO for Bing, Bing webmaster tools, and the Bing IIS Toolkit. Here is the video: SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Interview: […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 18, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: California Wildfires: August 2009 Edition Yes, parts of California are burning again — and the map makers are at work. Via Google’s Lat Long blog, there’s a new comprehensive map of […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 18, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Book Search Adds Seven New Features Today, Brandon Badger, Product Manager, Google Books, announced on the Inside Google Book Search Blog, seven, that’s right seven, new features and tools for […]
Microsoft’s Search Engine Optimization Advice for Bing
Microsoft recently published a PDF about Search Engine Optimization called Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters. This is the second SEO-related offering in as many weeks. During SMX Advanced, Microsoft launched the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit. I’m working on a review of that as well, but it requires Vista or Windows 7 and IIS […]
Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?
This week at Google I/O, Google talked a lot about the evolution of the technological capabilities of the web. HTML 5 is ushering in new era of browser-based development and applications. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, kicked things off with, “My message to you is that this is the beginning of the real win of cloud […]
Google Creates Smart Sitemap Generator Tool
The Google Webmaster Central blog announced that they have just released a new Sitemap generator that works on both Linux/Apache and Microsoft IIS Windows-based servers. The Sitemap generator is different and possibly smarter than other Sitemap tools because it uses web traffic, log files and other methods to find new or modified URLs. You can […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 13, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 1, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 12, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.