Microsoft has announced that it will be bringing the Bing web crawler out of beta on October 1st. It will be rebranded as "the Bingbot" and replace the existing msnbot. "It will still honor robots.txt directives written for msnbot, so no change is required to robots.txt file(s)," a Bing representative tells WebProNews.
"Improvements to the bot …
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New "Bingbot" Will Crawl Non-optimized Sites More Easily
What’s More Important in Search? Freshness or Quality?
It’s been a while since we looked at one of the Google Q&A webmaster videos that Matt Cutts does, but I found this recent one particularly interesting, considering the emphasis that has been put on freshness in search engines lately.
How important is freshness to you as a search engine user? Share your thoughts here.
The …
Webmasters Cry Mayday for Google Rankings Again
A lot of people had something to say about Google’s Mayday algorithm update from the beginning of May. A lot of people felt that it was costing them rankings and revenue.
Google’s Matt Cutts talked more about Mayday at SMX Advanced a couple weeks ago. He said that it was designed to try and spot …
Likes Mean Relevance in Facebook Search
Nick O’Neill at All Facebook reports that Facebook has confirmed that "all Open Graph-enabled web pages will show up in search when a user likes them." He also calls this Facebook’s "war on Google."
While utilizing likes and the open graph as a ranking factor in search should help Facebook improve its internal search, it …
Google Shares Its Viewpoint on Earning Quality Links
SEO changes all the time as search engines make adjustments to their algorithms and user interfaces, users adopt new technologies, etc. Still some things never change, like Google’s view on spammy links.
Do you agree with Google’s philosophy on link-building? Share your thoughts here.
In a new post to the Google Webmaster Central blog, the company has …