Although its introduction was never officially announced, if you read Google’s webmaster documentation, you’ll find that Googlebot has a 15MB crawl limit when searching websites. This limit has been put in place to prevent Google from overloading websites with too much traffic and consuming too much of their bandwidth. While this can be helpful for …
Today’s search engine algorithms are so advanced that they go beyond matching search results with the user’s search terms. Yes, keywords are still important, but in addition, Google, Bing and others can understand the user’s intention when doing a search and this enables them to serve up results that better match user intent. How does …
A website can have two different versions of its address, either with www (world wide web) or without, for example, mywebsite.com or www.mywebsite.com. There are pros and cons to both: non-www addresses look cleaner and are easier to remember, while those with www can be helpful for website performance and prevent issues with SEO. If …
This post will discuss Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known by its abbreviations, RSS. We’ll explain what RSS is, how it works and what its main uses are for syndicating content. What is RSS? RSS is a web feed that enables internet users and some types of software to access website updates and other online …
If your website doesn’t rank well in search results, you are losing out on visitors and the sales they generate. It also leaves you relying on more expensive ways to generate traffic, such as pay-per-click advertising. To help, here we look at six common reasons for poor search engine performance and explain what you can …
While the number of individual users who download RSS feeds via email is now in decline, RSS is still used extensively by a wide range of content providers, like news channels, industry publications, forums and blogs, for syndication. Making your website user-friendly for RSS can, therefore, help you reach a much wider audience and ensure …
