I have been writing an in-depth article about search engines and search engine optimization for a number of local publications. Although I can’t reveal the entire multi-part article yet I did find something today that I thought would be a really great preface.
Matt Cutts’ (from Google) blog revealed some great simple insight into how search engine spiders or robots operate:
Think of search engine spiders much like small children. They go around the web clicking on links. Unless there’s a link to a page, it can be hard for a search engine to find out about that page.
Please check out the post for some very simple and basic rules regarding your web site and search engines.
That’s great! I love the comparison drawn between Search Engine robots and children… it couldn’t be more true. Search engine robots are just as easily misdirected, confused, and temperamental as well.
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Haha, having friends with small children, I don’t know if that analogy always holds true (seems they find their way into the strangest spots) but I think it is a great reminder to keep our sites easily navigable for anyone – person or bot. Cheers!
Get that out of your mouth…. GOOOGLE! Thanks for stopping by Jonathan.