Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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Ask Jeeves wants your Robots.txt!

David Naylor from Bronco, who was one of the speakers at the Organic Listings Forum session at the Search Engine Strategies conference, advised site owners to have a robots.txt file, even if it's just an empty file, because Ask Jeeves' spider seems to fa… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 12/10/2005 | Permalink

Comments (2)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines ask jeeves, error_log, robots.txt, search_engine_strategies, spiders            

Underdog, Teoma, does it differently; authorities, hubs, and topical relevance

From an SEO standpoint, there is consensus among experts - Google, Yahoo and MSN are it. However, there’s a yappy little underdog called Teoma, which, despite its size, is a good contender in the search engine stakes. Teoma, which means "expert" in Gae… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 10/23/2005 | Permalink

Comments (0)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines ammon johns, ask jeeves, google, keyword dependent, link popularity, marketingprofs, msn, pagerank, seo, teoma, thought leaders summit, yahoo            

Coverage of SES San Jose: Search Engine Q&A On Links

I'm a bit behind on my conference session blogging. Waaay too many parties going on; doesn't leave much time for blogging. The Google Dance last night. Yahoo! party at Great America the night before. And tonight I've got another party to go to. Yesterday… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 08/10/2005 | Permalink

Comments (4)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines ask jeeves, backlinks, google, kaushal kurapati, matt cutts, pagerank, search engine q&a on links, search engine strategies, ses, tim mayer, yahoo            

When will Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Jeeves start indexing RSS feeds properly?

I find it a bit unbelievable that the major search engines — Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search, and Ask Jeeves — still don't offer RSS feed searching combined with RSS search results feeds as part of their Web search. Specialized RSS feed search engines lik… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/17/2005 | Permalink

Comments (8)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines, RSS Marketing ask jeeves, bloglines, google, msn, rss feed indexing, rss feeds, rss search results feeds, yahoo