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To be crawlable, a webpage has to be able to take a visitor someplace else. Visitors must be able to navigate to either another one of your webpages or to an external site. Bad or broken links reduces the crawability of your webpages.


Jun 05, 2008

Google is a Map Maker

Filed: Crawlability Tags: John H.Gohde at 6:53 pm by John H. Gohde

Google is in the business of connecting the dots between webpages. Webmasters who build lots of roads connecting their webpages together are rewarded by Google, the map maker. Those who fail to cross-link their pages together within the body of their webpage text are missing out on one of the most effective ways to search engine optimize their pages.

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