Tag: spiders

Like any business/profession, blogging has a language of it’s own. An article or story, is considered a post. Amenities that are added onto a blog to make it perform better, are called addons, widgets or plugins. You read about robots, crawlers, and spiders. The list goes on. Many of the… read more Oh That Blogging Language

Photo Credit lovelypetal’s photos Links create love in blogoshpere. However, “no follow tags” are set as a default on many blogging platforms. Even if you use the CommentLuv plugin, when your blog is crawled, the bots and spiders don’t give commenters “credit” for their link. Today’s Lesson On my travels… read more CommentLuv – LinkyLove – NoNoFollow

Over the past two days, I have been writing about duplicate content. As discussed earlier, WordPress blogs are notorious for duplicate content. Duplicate content can confuse search engines, and can get you penalized by Google. Today’s Lesson While researching on Google’s website (webmaster tools), Google suggests using a robots.txt file… read more How Important Is A Robots txt. File

As written earlier, in my post, Is A Hit, A Visit? we found out that a hit is not a visit. So, is a visit a visit? It all depends on which stats program you’re using. Today, I’m analyzing five different blogging statistics platforms. It’s going to get confusing. What… read more Confusing Blog Stats – Is a Visit a Visit?

With blogging, the language is: CSS, HTML; XHTML, links, pings, trackbacks, URL’s, posting, stats, addons, widgets, plugins, SEO, page rank, RSS, and much more When I was “blogging without a blog”, a month or more before I actually had a blog, the language of blogging, made my head spin. To… read more Oh, That Blogging Language – Part 1

If you have a new blog, and want to get indexed by Google, Yahoo, plus other search engines, thus improving search engine optimization, it’s apparent that a site map is imperative to install. What is a site map? Think of a site map as a blueprint of your site. When… read more Google Sitemap Generator

Over the weekend, I received an email from the owner of a website I “showcased” on my other blog. She had a question about “hits” on her website, Dare To Care – Alaska. Her passion is to feed hungry children, who have fallen through the cracks for Federally funded school… read more Is A “Hit”, A “Visit”?

I’m not sure what constitutes being a newbie to blogging, but I think I’m still a newbie, as my two blogs are less than three months old. When I first started blogging, I felt overwhelmed by everything I was reading. My head spun for weeks, and the learning curve was… read more Newbie To Blogging?

You blog. You want your blog to rank high on the search engines. The major question is, “How do I get my blog at the top of the search engine results?”. From my experience, getting your blog to the top of search engine results doesn’t happen overnight. This is what… read more How To Rank High On Search Engine Results

Is it just me, or do you get frustrated with the outdated information search engines are “throwing at you”? I do a lot of research for my blogs, as well as for my full time job. What I find most frustrating, is that the information at the top of the… read more Search Engines & Outdated Information

When I’m researching for my blogs, I never know where the search will take me. Yesterday, as I was researching, “how to link to previous posts”, I came across, “how to add meta tags”. From what I’ve read, it may be important to have meta tags in your blog. Apparently,… read more Adding Meta Tags To Your Blog

Lately I’ve been researching and reading a lot about blogging. I read about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), page rank, rating of pages, crawlers, spiders, robots, pinging, trackbacks, mega tags, links, stats, traffic, etc…..the list goes on. As a novice blogger, this information can get to be overwhelming. Should I be… read more The Crawlers, Spiders & Robots Are Coming – Start Posting