If you’ve been following our posts all this while, you would have gained at least an elementary knowledge on web scraping and web crawling. While a majority of folks out there may liken the use case for web scraping and crawling to merely setting up a few title and meta tags right, the scope is well much beyond just that.
The following post is going to cover a few nifty hacks to extract maximum value from your web scraping and crawling ambitions.
The robots.txt file along with the sitemap is majorly responsible to create first impressions with the search engine web scraping and web crawling bots. An incorrect sitemap can make the web crawlers go crazy hunting for the pages they wish to index and may even end up indexing unfavourably.
Here’s a brief list of things that could be messed up when the bots come knocking at your sitemap-
In the earlier post in this series, we had published the various popular types and levels of web crawlers followed by reasons why your blog or website is not being as popular as you expected it to be in the first place. Since we had readers really reach out to know more about why do their websites not come up as search results, this is a continuation to the earlier post in the series
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In the last few posts, we have establish the ground reality for various legal aspects of web scraping, data extraction & web crawling. While only the web administrator can decide how deep into the legal sludge does he wish to drag you, there are a few guidelines which can help you steer meaningfully clear of legal troubles.
These guidelines here are no guarantee for steering clear of legal troubles, it is always advisable to seek professional legal counsel to stay on the right s.........
In the last few posts, we have establish the ground reality for various legal aspects of web scraping, data extraction & web crawling. While only the web administrator can decide how deep into the legal sludge does he wish to drag you, there are a few guidelines which can help you steer meaningfully clear of legal troubles.
These guidelines here are no guarantee for steering clear of legal troubles, it is always advisable to seek professional legal counsel to stay on the right s.........