Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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Getting indexed by Google Mini doesn't mean you'll get indexed by Googlebot

Google bills the Google Mini as a search appliance that's able to deliver "the same reliable results you expect from Google web search" to your intranet or public website. I think Google is being misleading here, confusing their customer base into mistak… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 09/26/2006 | Permalink

Comments (0)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines google, google mini, googlebot, indexing            

Googlebot, parameters and dynamic sites

I previously mentioned that Matt Cutts from Google gave some advice to webmasters of dynamic (database driven) web sites. For one thing, Matt advised that if you have a dynamic web site, you should minimize the number of parameters in the URL. You’r… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 08/27/2005 | Permalink

Comments (0)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines complex urls, dynamic web site, google, googlebot, matt cutts, parameters, url variations, urls            

What's wrong with Google Sitemaps

Last Friday it seemed like the whole blogosphere was abuzz with the news that Google unveiled its new Google Sitemaps service, a free inclusion service where you publish an XML file of your site pages to Google so its spider can get a better sense of wha… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/06/2005 | Permalink

Comments (0)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines google, google sitemaps, googlebot, gravitystream, pagerank, pagerank dilution, pagerank score, spiders            

Spiders like Googlebot choke on Session IDs

Many ecommerce sites have session IDs or user IDs in the URL of their pages. This tends to cause either the pages to not get indexed by search engines like Google, or to cause the pages to get included many times over and over, clogging up the index with… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/25/2004 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: General ecommerce sites, googlebot, pagerank, pagerank_dilution, seo, session id, spiders, spider_trap, urls