Search Engine Crawl

tigress · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-09, 06:59

Search engines crawl the web to look for content relevant to the queries entered by searchers. How can you make sure that the content of your blogs are crawled by the search engines aside from using keywords? How do you determine that your keywords are relevant and popular in searches? Do the different search engines have different methods or criteria in determining relevant content?

centelo · #2 (**permalink**) 07-20-09, 14:26

Research, research, research.

How are you not going to know? Go to Google and type in something, whatever word you are using, did you find what you need? Now think about that for a tad, check the sites, see what their keywords are, do they match their product/service.

Same thing I am sure Bodhost here does (using say for example dedicated server, since they have dedicated servers), makes sense. Its a hosting company with a keyword specific to the web hosting industry.

Binary · #3 (**permalink**) 07-20-09, 20:29

I think it is important to think like a normal researcher, or like the audience you are targeting. If school children are researching, they may a term different from what an adult will use.

Howard · #4 (**permalink**) 10-20-09, 20:35

when i am having a doubt whether my post is indexed by google or not, i just copy the post and paste it in google search engine and press the search button and it shows me whether it is indexed or not. But i still think over a question sometimes and that is, do PR have any importance when it comes on indexing. What could be the answer?

Laci · #5 (**permalink**) 10-21-09, 04:03

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Originally Posted by Howard

when i am having a doubt whether my post is indexed by google or not, i just copy the post and paste it in google search engine and press the search button and it shows me whether it is indexed or not. But i still think over a question sometimes and that is, do PR have any importance when it comes on indexing. What could be the answer?

That's the most preferred way to get it checked.

Well, If you have good PR then there are great chances that your web content would be getting crawled / indexed sooner. Its due to

e number of backlinks you have for your website !!

MattBarthorp · #6 (**permalink**) 10-21-09, 06:17

Yes exactly.A website with good PR would mean that the website is well optimized,hence has better and faster chances of getting crawled and indexed.

BodShane · #7 (**permalink**) 10-21-09, 14:26

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Originally Posted by MattBarthorp

Yes exactly.A website with good PR would mean that the website is well optimized,hence has better and faster chances of getting crawled and indexed.

Let me add a point to it. PR has lost it's importance to what it used to have earlier.

carl owen · #8 (**permalink**) 10-21-09, 18:26

PR has lost importance due to the fact that it has been noticed that websites which do not have quality content get PR as they get some backlinks easily

Andreas · #9 (**permalink**) 10-23-09, 05:22

As a matter of fact the importance of PR has got reduced and is yet to lose its importance completely. IMO websites used to get higher PR only when it was able to serve the volume of criterias of optimization.Therefore,when some new content is added to a well optimized website,it has good chances that it gets indexed faster.

Fletcher · #10 (**permalink**) 10-23-09, 10:09

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Originally Posted by carl owen

PR has lost importance due to the fact that it has been noticed that websites which do not have quality content get PR as they get some backlinks easily

I dont agree with you Carl Owen. I feel that PR still has its importance and almost all the people before navigating to the site checks the PR and decide the quality of the site from the PR, gaining backlinks is something that is because of a good SEO campaign and marketing skill, so the content doesnt play a role in gaining backlinks Hammering, this is true that for a proper business strategy one should focus on SERP ranking rather that PR

carl owen · #11 (**permalink**) 10-23-09, 17:14

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Originally Posted by Fletcher

I dont agree with you Carl Owen. I feel that PR still has its importance and almost all the people before navigating to the site checks the PR and decide the quality of the site from the PR, gaining backlinks is something that is because of a good SEO campaign and marketing skill, so the content doesnt play a role in gaining backlinks Hammering, this is true that for a proper business strategy one should focus on SERP ranking rather that PR

Well, the content of the website determines it's online success and if you have good content on the website, gaining backlinks for your website will be easier for you

On the other hand, if you do not have good content on your website, you won't be able to get good quality backlinks for your website even if you have the best marketing skills :(

Neveah · #12 (**permalink**) 10-26-09, 06:10

Content is the king for any SEO campaign and for any Website success, this is people like you and me whenever visit any website checks the content on it,so content still Rules.

clsecure · #13 (**permalink**) 11-02-09, 18:07

I hardly believe that a regular visitor will check the PR to determine whether or not to visit that particular site. However I did read that Google dropped the PR setting from their analytics tool but it still is a small part of the equation.

Andreas · #14 (**permalink**) 11-02-09, 22:49

A ordinary internet user would hardly check the PR of a particular website when surfing the web.His/er only intention is to find the required information and walk ahead.IMO its only the SEO experts and Search engine marketers actually check the PR of a particular website before proceeding further.

Ishaan · #15 (**permalink**) 11-03-09, 05:55

I don't think visitors nowadays checks the PR, what they need is fresh and quality content. However, i think that google is now giving importance to the quality content and hence you should work more on improving your website quality. Also, people will get more attracted if your site is being updated frequently.

Hezekiah Omar · #16 (**permalink**) 11-03-09, 23:53

Fresh and useful content is appreciated by visitors as well as search engines.There is hardly anybody,who first check the PR and only then read the information provided by a particular website.One would simply grab the required information and move on.

Bronson · #17 (**permalink**) 11-04-09, 13:30

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Originally Posted by Ishaan

However, i think that google is now giving importance to the quality content and hence you should work more on improving your website quality.

Google gives importance to the quality of the website, however, it is noticed that Google is now giving more importance to the number of backlinks the website has got and as Google PR is based upon the same, the quality of the content of the website is loosing it's importance :(

Andreas · #18 (**permalink**) 11-05-09, 05:08

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Originally Posted by Bronson

Google gives importance to the quality of the website, however, it is noticed that Google is now giving more importance to the number of backlinks the website has got and as Google PR is based upon the same, the quality of the content of the website is loosing it's importance :(

Whaoo!! Thats absolutely incorrect my friend,the search engine's basic motto is to offer valid and useful content to users.The search engines are always finding ways to show most relevant content to the search terms entered by the visitor.

Bronson · #19 (**permalink**) 11-05-09, 13:54

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Originally Posted by Andreas

Whaoo!! Thats absolutely incorrect my friend,the search engine's basic motto is to offer valid and useful content to users.The search engines are always finding ways to show most relevant content to the search terms entered by the visitor.

The content of the website is certainly the most important factor and it should be the most important one as the basic purpose is to find relevant content, however, if you notice, some of the search results are now based upon the PR of the website and the number of backlinks the webpage has got. Due to this reason, some of the visitors of search engines feel that the content of the website is given second priority :(

DanaB52 · #20 (**permalink**) 11-05-09, 19:10

Google does care very much about quality content for the simple reason that if there were only terrible sites with bad and useless content showing up on their SERPs then people would use another search engine out of frustration. Less traffic means less money for Google, as they make their income from advertising. They are actually getting more and more strict in terms of quality and I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of sites get de-indexed pretty soon.