Top tips offered for attracting search engine crawlers

28th August 2008

Businesses looking to make their websites more visible to search engine crawlers and spiders may want to consult advice offered by MarketingVOX.

According to the news source, it can be beneficial to ensure the website has a sitemap and regularly updated content, as well as a simple link and semantic structure.

Obtaining inbound links from valuable sites and speeding up page-loading times can also help, the website asserted.

It may be worth looking at forms to see whether there is any hidden content that can be freed, while avoiding JavaScript links and URLs with query strings could attract crawlers more regularly as such links tend to be invisible to these spiders, MarketingVOX stated.

Earlier this year, Prashanth Koppula of Google detailed on the Webmaster Central Blog some of the ways in which site owners can make use of Robots Exclusion Protocol to ensure their content shows up on search engines.