Category: Spiders & Bots
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GoogleBot Experiment Success!
A month has past since I made a change to my WordPress templates to experiment with Google bot (see previous post) and I can proudly report that it works like a charm. My original problem was that Google was returning search results pointing to index-style pages on my Blog instead of the post’s themselves. These…
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Experimenting with Googlebot
In my previous post ‘Blogs are fundamentally flawed…‘ I noted an observation that more often than not search results would direct a user to an index-style page containing the post instead of directly to the ‘permalink’ location of the post. This leads to a poor user-experience from the visitor’s point of view, on busy blogs…
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‘NASA Search 1.0’ ??? Something Google should worry about ???
Having written my own WordPress logging / statistics plug-in over the weekend – which still in prototype, consider it a ‘coming soon’ – I have started to notice more and more peculiar User-Agents visiting my blog. I quite like to keep an eye on what spiders / bots visit my sites, how often they return…