Not an SEO Expert but SEO Learner Since 2011 | Vivek Sharma

Bots and botnets are commonly associated with cybercriminals stealing data, identities, credit card numbers and worse. But bots can also serve good purposes. Separating good bots from bad can also make a big difference in how you protect your company’s website and ensure that that your site gets the Internet traffic it deserves. Most good bots are essentially crawlers sent out from the world’s biggest web sites to index content for their search engines and social media platforms. You WANT those bots to visit you. They bring you more business! Shutting them down as part of strategy to block bad bots is a losing strategy. Here, in reverse order of how likely they are to visit any web site, are the 10 most important good bots that you should know about now. Make sure your security strategy welcomes these bots (or at least know why you chose to block them) Bot   Name %   of   Sites   Crawled Bot   Type Googlebot 96% Search   Bot Baidu   Spider 89% Search   Bot MSN

Your ultimate guide to major Google penalties & algo changes Google rolls out algorithm updates once or twice every month (and that's just the ones we know about!), but not all of them have an equally strong impact on the SERPs. To help you make sense of Google's major algo changes in the past years, I've put up a cheat sheet with the most important updates and penalties rolled out in the recent years, along with a list of hazards and prevention tips for each. Contents 1 Panda 2 Penguin 3 Pirate 4 Hummingbird 5 Pigeon 6 Mobile Friendly Update 7 RankBrain 8 Possum

This is a list of the most popular websites worldwide according to the top 100 lists published by Alexa Internet , as of April 3, 2017, and SimilarWeb , as of February 2017. Website   Global   Alexa   Rank Website   Type Principal   Country google.com 1 Internet   services   and   products U.S. youtube.com 2 Video   sharing U.S. facebook.com 3 Social   network U.S. baidu.com 4 Search   engine China wikipedia.org 5 Encyclopedia U.S. yahoo.com 6 Portal   and   media U.S. reddit.com 7 Social   news   and   entertainment U.S. google.co.in 8 Search   engine India qq.com 9 Portal China taobao.com 10 Online   shopping China amazon.com 11 E-commerce   and   cloud   computing U.S. tmall.com 12 Online   shopping China twitter.com 13 Social   network U.S. google.co.jp 14 Search   engine Japan sohu.com 15 Portal China live.com 16 Software   plus   services U.S. vk.com 17 Social   network Russia instagram.com 18 Photo   sharing