Spiders and engines and ferrets…Oh My!

October 25th, 2007

Posted by Mel Gray

Howdy!

This is my first post and I aim to make it count, so I’ll spare you a lengthy introduction. My name is Mel and I’m from Texas. I came on board at SEOmoz just shy of two months ago, and it has been nothing short of a life changing experience.

I couldn’t be happier working with a team of folks who don’t just know what they’re doing, but have a damn good time doing it.  In my short tenure here I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a wide variety of very cool technologies alongside some very cool people. One of those technologies is called Ferret.
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Search Engine Spiders do the real work

September 12th, 2007

Once site is submitted to search engines, its spiders (also known as crawlers) visit your site and crawls it. Crawling involves looking at the tags, text and following all the links it can find.

Be friendly to these crawlers, because if they can’t read your site pages, they can’t include them in index and so search results.

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