Word Watch: Crawlability

Crawlability: n. a measure of the ease with which a website may be scanned by a search engine robot.

This is one bit of jargon worth learning. It has a big impact on a site’s search engine rankings. Three things you can do to improve your site’s crawlability:

1. Add a hierarchical sitemap
2. Use descriptive URLs everywhere (i.e., pages should called about-us.html or driving_directions.html. Or better yet, get a CMS to do the hard work for you.)
3. Make sure titles and headings reflect the site’s most important elements

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Tags: Jargon, seo, sitemap

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