Learn about how search engines think and how to optimize your website accordingly. Only when you can be found, you are really online!
Since the mid 90s it has been agreed amongst all tech savvy internet people, that a robots.txt file on a server could specify access policies for robots. Creating a robots.txt file is very easy. In order to get started open a text editor (mac) or notepad (windows) to create a …
Elsewhere on my website, I’ve already explained a little bit about how search engines rank websites when showing sites on its SERP (search engine results page). All together, there are about 200 rules that either are known or are rumoured to play a part in the SERP ranking. Google PageRank …
When most people talk about Google ranking they’ll be referring to the search results pages, or the official term SERP. SERP stands for Search Engine Results Page. It’s the page you see after you’ve hit that Search button. Most websites wish to score really high on these pages and that’s …
They often say: “If you are on the second or third page of Google, you could just as well not exist”. Everybody wants to be on the top of the result pages, but that could be a challenge at times. The way a search engine ranks the websites changes constantly. …
Every website is of interest to a crawler. However, a website will be passed on to be indexed when there’s a readable, aka Friendly URL, and readable content. Only codes will be read, but will be considered to be not valuable. Text and images will. As soon as that’s been …
When you’ve put a lot of time and effort into your website, then you want to be found easily as well. Ofcourse, word to mouth will get you your first visitors, and please don’t be shy to use your social media to get that working for you, but a great presence …
