Guide to Basic SEO Concepts: Part 3
BrightEdge In this third and final segment of our guide to basic SEO concepts, we’ll touch on the more advanced SEO definitions and concepts of website “crawlability,” including basic search engine directives, common client and server errors, best practices and web developer resources. You can access Part 1 of our series, covering on-page SEO concepts, and Part 2 , explaining essential linking terms and related search engine directives. Crawlability In simple terms, “crawlability” refers to the ease with which search engine robots (or “bots” like Googlebot) can “crawl” a website in doing their work of indexing pages to build the search engine results pages (SERPs). There are several tools and best practices webmasters and developers can employ to optimize a website for search engine bots – in other words, maximize its crawlability – as well as minimize the usual crawling errors. The ultimate goal behind site crawlability is to expedit...