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How Meta Commands Can Help You Love Spiders

Nearly all search engines utilize spiders (which are also known by their original name, robots) to go out and scour the web looking for web pages. These search engine spiders then bring the data back to be indexed by the engine.

Google Explains Meta Tags

Search engines pay attention to some tags, and none to others. Remember when the 'keywords' meta tag mattered? Ah, the good old days.

Debunking Wordpress SEO "Expert" Articles

I am going to attempt to debunk almost every Wordpress SEO "Expert" article ever written, and in some respects this article even debunks some of the things I have written in the past.

Misspellings: The Fate of the Keywords Meta Tag

Meta Tags were once a major player in SEO. With the advancement of search engine algorithms, meta tags become less and less significant. The description meta tag is still used for your search engine snippets, but the keywords meta tag has been disregarded by all the major search engines.

Nofollow Outbound Links on Home & Category Pages

As you might have seen, I have now nofollowed all outbound links on my homepage and category pages.

Seven More Questions About SEO

Rand Fishkin followed up his original ten questions (plus bonus) on SEO knowledge with the answers, and some new questions from Danny Sullivan for everyone's perusal.

Unavailable After: Google Plans New Meta Tag

The unavailable_after meta tag on a web page tells a spider when it should stop indexing a particular page.

Blogspot and SEO

Well it never just rains. It has to pour. I made an offer of some free SEO reviews a while back and a nasty confluence of happenings has upset my apple cart. But I’m going to try and get some advice out to a few more people now. And this is going to be the toughest task I’ve had in a while. You see it never dawned on me that so many folk would be on hosted blogs. Let’s just say that optimising Blogspot is not a straight forward task.

Ensuring a Page is NOT Indexed by Search Engines

Dear Kalena... I want to publish a private page on the web, that only I and a few other people will use. How can I ensure that this page is NOT picked up by search engines? It will be a wiki style page, so there may be lots of content which could be indexed by the Search Engines. This is what I want to avoid.

Google On Making Use Of Robots Meta Tags

Owing to Danny Sullivan's post on how search engines handle meta tags, Google's Vanessa Fox has written a post on how Google handles these tags.