Information about our spider
WebWobot obeys the Robot Exclusion Standard
Our spider's name is ScollSpider. When
ScollSpider visits your site, it will first look for a robots.txt
file in your root folder of your domain or subdomain. If it does
not find one, it will assume that your site is available for all
spiders to crawl every part of your site.
If you don't yet know how to create a
robots.txt file, you can consult http://www.robotstxt.org/
to see how it works.
ScollSpider will parse your entire robots.txt
file, and will look for any of the following:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /some-directory-or-file
User-agent: ScollSpider
Disallow: /some-directory-or-file
Whatever directory is specified ( including
the root / ), ScollSpider, as per the Robot
Exclusion Standard, will deem all files and directories within
the specified directory off-limits, and will not crawl them. All
files and directories that are accessible via both internal and
external (from other sites) links that are not excluded by robots.txt
will be crawled and cached for possible indexing.
Title and Meta-Tags & SEO
The most important tags we make use of
is your title tag and your description tag. (In that order).
While other search engines might make
use of your keywords meta-tag, we do not. Our engine calculates
what it deems to be your keywords, based upon the visible text content
of your page. So if your text content is forever talking about apples,
with no considerable mention of oranges, then we will not deem the
page to be about oranges irrespective of what you might specify
in your keywords meta-tag! Similarly, if every other word used was
apples, then... well your page would be sounding kinda funny to
your visitors reading the page, so we would also be having a little
chuckle when it comes to indexing time!
The moral of the story is:
Don't try to design your pages for robots - design them for people
who will be visiting your site. If your content is good to them,
then we will be good to you!
Rapid-Firing
ScollSpider would like to be welcome to
visit your site time and time again. To try to help achieve this,
it will try to blend in with your human visitors, and "click
away" at your links as though it were some very interested
speed-reading human visitor. So when ScollSpider visits your site,
its presence will seem like a human who dropped by your site and
read a page for 3 seconds or so, before moving on to the next page.
In short, we do not rapid-fire websites!!!
How long to get indexed?
After submitting (and confirming) your
website to WebWobot.com, your URL will be enqueued for crawling,
just behind any other pending submissions. This may even occur instantly,
but it may take up to 48 hours or so for pages to start appearing
in search results.
Spider Identification for forums, etc
To ensure that when ScollSpider visits your forum,
it shows up as ScollSpider rather than guest, you may be able to
configure your forum by adding a spider and using "ScollSpider"
as identification string or our user-agentstring: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible;
ScollSpider; http://www.webwobot.com). Bot IP: 82.43.129.240.
Should you require further assistance please consult
our forums.