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Scribbling.net: Help your local Google-bot

This is a good roundup of practical real world advice on how to make your site more accesible to Google's bots.

Getting a good ranking in Google is no rocket science. Nor is it an extreme sport for the webmasters more daring than others. It is simply a matter of learning what makes the Google-bot happy and adapting to it.

Like Gina at Scribbling.net excellently phrases it: "When authoring a web site, keep in mind that the Googlebot is software, which means it has a set of capabilities and limitations and algorithms it uses to index content." Learn the inner workings of Google-bot and you have come a long way baby.

Something I have been wondering about is just how often Google crawls a site. Using my small spider-trap at www.fortunes.nu I get email alerts every time a known search engine bot comes across Nookie's doorstep.

Google-bot comes visiting several times a day. Which is odd, considering that the front page of www.fortunes.nu changes very little from day to day.

Oh well. Read. Learn. Do.

"Every few days Scribbling.net is ripe with new content, just waiting and wanting to be indexed and searched. Scribbling.net trembles with anticipation for it's weekly-or-so Googlebot visit, and when the big G arrives, let me tell you, it's like a well-choreographed dance. The Googlebot and Scribbling.net have all the elements of a healthy relationship: love, trust, respect, honesty and understanding. It's beautiful, really. Your site can know this kind of bliss too."

Scribbling.net: Help the Googlebot understand your web site

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