{"id":5926,"date":"2016-07-22T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.constant-content.com\/blog\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2022-05-16T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T21:42:18","slug":"you-dont-need-a-pokeball-to-catch-these-crawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constant-content.com\/content-writing-service\/2016\/07\/you-dont-need-a-pokeball-to-catch-these-crawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don\u2019t Need a Pok\u00e9ball to Catch These Crawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of people wandering around trying to catch all the Pokemon they can on their phones lately. But if you have an ecommerce site, there\u2019s something else that crawls that you would want to capture – web crawlers!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, you can\u2019t capture these guys with a Pokeball. These are programs that browse the Internet and provide up-to-date data for search engines to use to rank websites. So if you want customers to choose you, you first have to make it easy for these crawlers to find you.<\/p>\n

Okay, now that I have your attention and you\u2019ve put your Pok\u00e9dex down, here are five tips on how to catch more web crawlers.<\/p>\n

1. Update Content Regularly<\/span><\/h3>\n

Updating your content regularly will get your website crawled more frequently. Having an up-to-date blog with relevant keywords<\/a> will increase your websites\u2019 search rankings. Additionally, be sure to have high-quality, usable content<\/a> to add value to your human visitors.<\/p>\n

2. Create Sitemaps<\/span><\/h3>\n

An effective sitemap will tell search engines about the organization of your site content and help guide crawlers around your website more efficiently. Google has a guide<\/a> on how to build and submit sitemaps. Some general guidelines include:<\/p>\n