I wasn’t always in SEO. Nope. I’m older than that. My background includes years in advertising sales. Radio, television, print/newspaper, and interactive — I covered them all. Without a doubt, I fell in love with interactive. The measurability. The accountability. The “instant” nature of placing ads on the Web and seeing clicks and conversions. It [...]
I wasn’t always in SEO. Nope. I’m older than that. My background includes years in advertising sales. Radio, television, print/newspaper, and interactive — I covered them all. Without a doubt, I fell in love with interactive. The measurability. The accountability. The “instant” nature of placing ads on the Web and seeing clicks and conversions. It [...]
There are basically two types of search engines. The first is by robots called crawlers or spiders. Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an [...]
Let’s face it, most people don’t track their advertising at all and therefore don’t know where their leads or sales are coming from. I’ve talked with dozens of business owners about which online advertising vehicles work best for them. What I usually hear is that they are impressed with the sites that give [...]
Let’s face it, most people don’t track their advertising at all and therefore don’t know where their leads or sales are coming from. I’ve talked with dozens of business owners about which online advertising vehicles work best for them. What I usually hear is that they are impressed with the sites that give them the [...]
Introduction
Search Engines have developed into the Internet’s most popular and powerful source of information, accounting for an estimated 80% of the Internet’s traffic (Heche, 2007, p. 1). As a result, website owners are realizing the power in such devises and are shifting marketing budgets into the optimization of their sites specifically for search engines. During [...]
That might be changing in the coming years. There’s a sense in the SEO sector that the horizons have expanded significantly and the search marketing map has gotten far larger. What the new landscape will look like exactly, and how large Google’s footprint will be, is still unknown. The emerging online environment is still being [...]
The grandmother of search engines, Veronica, arrived 4 years later in 1993. These ancient search engines were soon followed by a host of modern day search engines, some prominent ones being AliWeb, 1993 WebCrawler, 1994 Lycos, 1994 Yahoo, 1995 AltaVista, 1995 Excite, 1995 HotBot, 1996 Inktomi, 1996 Ask Jeeves, 1997 GoTo 1997, renamed as Overture [...]
With so many different Search Engines online today you need to take time to understand how their spiders work so that you can truly optimize your domain in order to get the best out of your web presence. In this article you will learn how some of the more popular Search Engine spiders actually work.
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…..I did run Spybot but no luck. And Lycos is not listed in my add/remove programs. Can I run other software, like Ad-aware, to catch this problem even though I have Spybot installed on my pc? Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
