Sunday 17 March 2013
Launched in February 2013, the search engine Qwant intends to mark its difference and glean some market share from Google. Here are the first useful information for webmasters and SEOs who will find there may be a way to reduce dependence on Google.Launch a very laborious, especially with professionals
Qwant (logo) users were able to judge for themselves the value of Qwant presented more or less accurately by the media, but webmasters and web marketing professionals were mostly very disappointed if at all convinced by (read this discussion the launch of Qwant). A total absence of reaction in the early days did not improve the situation. After some initial information, it was radio silence again for several weeks.
Having finally able to get concrete answers to my questions SEO practices, I give you in this article some information that might help you optimize your SEO in Qwant.
Hopefully this time it will be a good start!Qwant will (finally) begin its crawl of the web
Contrary to what has been said or implied from the beginning, at the time this article is published (03/13/2013) Qwant has not yet started to crawl. But it will now be the case so be prepared!
The name of the crawler Qwant Qwantbot is not as one might expect but Qwantify. Qwant told me that the agent name is "qwantify 1.0" (which is short, often adding information and URL) but I have not been able to confirm quantify because has not set foot WebRankInfo site. So I can not say that this robot began to crawl the web. In fact, Qwant told me that the crawl of the "Live" has started (see below for explanation). Understood, the crawl the web has not started?
When you see in your logs, you can verify its authenticity by doing a reverse DNS.
This robot will consider the information provided in robots.txt files.
Besides the traditional links to the robot to discover new pages, you can provide a sitemap file (XML) or use a URL submission form (in the case of a priority need for crawl).
Remember Qwant is very interested in the social web, so do not hesitate to also submit the URLs of your pages and profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Google+).
Qwant me said that their search engine will consider the canonical URL tag as structured data type schema.org.Qwant Webmaster Tools
The good news is that Qwant told me to prepare a tool like Webmaster Tools, which should be available "in a little over a month." In this tool, webmasters can define set of rules to choose to be or not to be totally or partially indexed. Qwant provide a list of IP address ranges used by the crawler.
If you have an online store, you can also add your products to the shopping. It is hoped that Qwant will wait a long time before this option to pay (Google has made Google Shopping paying for merchants).
In addition to the configuration options, you will have access also to many statistics, for example:
the number of indexed pages on the site,
information on the position of your site in the web results
information on your backlinks (source and target URL + anchor text) in particular (or just, I do not understand) for the links found by their engine "social". For example, the links found in tweets will be mentioned.
In addition to this information, Qwant wishes he seems to provide more statistics on your sites, even buy them to third parties, as they are already buying data "client side". We ask Qwant details on what this means ...
By cons for this first version should not expect to get tips or HTML messages such as Google Webmaster Tools. Some gossips say that it is much better, does not necessarily enjoying announcements penalty and other artificial backlinks.
This tool for webmasters being developed internally by Qwant so by a French team, it should be fairly easy to submit ideas for improvement. Do not hesitate!How to properly register on Qwant
Here are the top tips from the information I have obtained Qwant. Sorry they are a little "loose".
On coding, Qwant me said will "focus on sites that meet the new standards introduced by HTML5."Referencing Live Qwant
For now, for the "Live" (that is to say, the news), Qwant told me he started to crawl some "big sites" in several countries. I do not have a clear answer on the conditions to be included in a source Qwant Live. Qwant wishes to identify blogs and authority sites, based heavily on the presence of their authors in the social web. If this is the case, we will have to understand the mechanism by which they identify the author. I understand their logic, the idea is to provide more varied results than Google News, giving more opportunities to those who are heavily involved in social networks.
Results "live" are supposed to update by citations in social networks (links to pages in Facebook posts or tweets or Google+).Social referencing in Qwant
I wanted to know more about crawlers and tools used to Qwant Social. So I asked Eric to Léandri:
How do you get real-time results? Do you have any partnerships with Facebook, Twitter or Google+? or do you use the API?
Answer: We have answered this question and we will develop in the coming days, but for simplicity we had a great legal audit of all that we could do legally and applied it to the letter in order to bring maximum relevant information from the office. We seek to develop and many partnerships, we formalize the As in our communication.
We also acquired a company that develops applications and Facebook is already present in nearly 2 million fan pages and brings us an interesting visibility on all areas covered by these pages, and in all countriesYourank the algo Qwant
Qwant baptized Yourank the name of its ranking algorithm. From my basic information and my feelings (because nothing is measurable or can be tested), I would say Qwant gives a very important social, rather than Google or Bing (even if they are not increasingly interested).
In the words of Eric Léandri, here are the main components of Yourank:
PageRank (weight on the page): he is not here but the Google PageRank of a page on the weight determined by several factors including the depth of the site and the weight of the site containing the page (we ask Eric to clarify this point ...).
LinkRank: this is to consider the page backlinks and their anchor text. In addition to the traditional ties (from web pages), operates Qwant the links on the social networks: tweets, Facebook posts and comments and Google+
WordRank (weight to words): This is the traditional criteria such as on page presence of words in the title (with a variation depending on the size of the title: the title is more general less it matters).
exact expression strongly preferred (query multiple words, "country house" found it's better than to have found "home" and "country" in different sentences)
presence of the words in the URL (very strong in the domain name, less strong in the rest of the URL)
presence of words in the text anchor links that point to the page
weight depending on the size of the page in word and its frequency in the page (for my part I will explain these obscure points ...)
Qwant also operates "linguistic distances on words based on linguistic transformations between the search word and the word indexed."
Specifically, the algorithm Yourank consists of the above and additional parameters with a "very large weighting social".
Qwant vowed to successfully "move sharply to the main form for the end of the year (in several countries and languages)."To go further
You can get answers to your questions about using the forum Qwant WebRankInfo. Indeed, the co-founder Eric Léandri and project leader Stéphane WebRankInfo are members of and participate in discussions.
Qwant (logo) users were able to judge for themselves the value of Qwant presented more or less accurately by the media, but webmasters and web marketing professionals were mostly very disappointed if at all convinced by (read this discussion the launch of Qwant). A total absence of reaction in the early days did not improve the situation. After some initial information, it was radio silence again for several weeks.
Having finally able to get concrete answers to my questions SEO practices, I give you in this article some information that might help you optimize your SEO in Qwant.
Hopefully this time it will be a good start!Qwant will (finally) begin its crawl of the web
Contrary to what has been said or implied from the beginning, at the time this article is published (03/13/2013) Qwant has not yet started to crawl. But it will now be the case so be prepared!
The name of the crawler Qwant Qwantbot is not as one might expect but Qwantify. Qwant told me that the agent name is "qwantify 1.0" (which is short, often adding information and URL) but I have not been able to confirm quantify because has not set foot WebRankInfo site. So I can not say that this robot began to crawl the web. In fact, Qwant told me that the crawl of the "Live" has started (see below for explanation). Understood, the crawl the web has not started?
When you see in your logs, you can verify its authenticity by doing a reverse DNS.
This robot will consider the information provided in robots.txt files.
Besides the traditional links to the robot to discover new pages, you can provide a sitemap file (XML) or use a URL submission form (in the case of a priority need for crawl).
Remember Qwant is very interested in the social web, so do not hesitate to also submit the URLs of your pages and profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Google+).
Qwant me said that their search engine will consider the canonical URL tag as structured data type schema.org.Qwant Webmaster Tools
The good news is that Qwant told me to prepare a tool like Webmaster Tools, which should be available "in a little over a month." In this tool, webmasters can define set of rules to choose to be or not to be totally or partially indexed. Qwant provide a list of IP address ranges used by the crawler.
If you have an online store, you can also add your products to the shopping. It is hoped that Qwant will wait a long time before this option to pay (Google has made Google Shopping paying for merchants).
In addition to the configuration options, you will have access also to many statistics, for example:
the number of indexed pages on the site,
information on the position of your site in the web results
information on your backlinks (source and target URL + anchor text) in particular (or just, I do not understand) for the links found by their engine "social". For example, the links found in tweets will be mentioned.
In addition to this information, Qwant wishes he seems to provide more statistics on your sites, even buy them to third parties, as they are already buying data "client side". We ask Qwant details on what this means ...
By cons for this first version should not expect to get tips or HTML messages such as Google Webmaster Tools. Some gossips say that it is much better, does not necessarily enjoying announcements penalty and other artificial backlinks.
This tool for webmasters being developed internally by Qwant so by a French team, it should be fairly easy to submit ideas for improvement. Do not hesitate!How to properly register on Qwant
Here are the top tips from the information I have obtained Qwant. Sorry they are a little "loose".
On coding, Qwant me said will "focus on sites that meet the new standards introduced by HTML5."Referencing Live Qwant
For now, for the "Live" (that is to say, the news), Qwant told me he started to crawl some "big sites" in several countries. I do not have a clear answer on the conditions to be included in a source Qwant Live. Qwant wishes to identify blogs and authority sites, based heavily on the presence of their authors in the social web. If this is the case, we will have to understand the mechanism by which they identify the author. I understand their logic, the idea is to provide more varied results than Google News, giving more opportunities to those who are heavily involved in social networks.
Results "live" are supposed to update by citations in social networks (links to pages in Facebook posts or tweets or Google+).Social referencing in Qwant
I wanted to know more about crawlers and tools used to Qwant Social. So I asked Eric to Léandri:
How do you get real-time results? Do you have any partnerships with Facebook, Twitter or Google+? or do you use the API?
Answer: We have answered this question and we will develop in the coming days, but for simplicity we had a great legal audit of all that we could do legally and applied it to the letter in order to bring maximum relevant information from the office. We seek to develop and many partnerships, we formalize the As in our communication.
We also acquired a company that develops applications and Facebook is already present in nearly 2 million fan pages and brings us an interesting visibility on all areas covered by these pages, and in all countriesYourank the algo Qwant
Qwant baptized Yourank the name of its ranking algorithm. From my basic information and my feelings (because nothing is measurable or can be tested), I would say Qwant gives a very important social, rather than Google or Bing (even if they are not increasingly interested).
In the words of Eric Léandri, here are the main components of Yourank:
PageRank (weight on the page): he is not here but the Google PageRank of a page on the weight determined by several factors including the depth of the site and the weight of the site containing the page (we ask Eric to clarify this point ...).
LinkRank: this is to consider the page backlinks and their anchor text. In addition to the traditional ties (from web pages), operates Qwant the links on the social networks: tweets, Facebook posts and comments and Google+
WordRank (weight to words): This is the traditional criteria such as on page presence of words in the title (with a variation depending on the size of the title: the title is more general less it matters).
exact expression strongly preferred (query multiple words, "country house" found it's better than to have found "home" and "country" in different sentences)
presence of the words in the URL (very strong in the domain name, less strong in the rest of the URL)
presence of words in the text anchor links that point to the page
weight depending on the size of the page in word and its frequency in the page (for my part I will explain these obscure points ...)
Qwant also operates "linguistic distances on words based on linguistic transformations between the search word and the word indexed."
Specifically, the algorithm Yourank consists of the above and additional parameters with a "very large weighting social".
Qwant vowed to successfully "move sharply to the main form for the end of the year (in several countries and languages)."To go further
You can get answers to your questions about using the forum Qwant WebRankInfo. Indeed, the co-founder Eric Léandri and project leader Stéphane WebRankInfo are members of and participate in discussions.
I want to know if anyone has any in depth experience with their web crawler? does it respect robots protocols?
ReplyDelete"How do you get real-time results? Do you have any partnerships with Facebook, Twitter or Google+? or do you use the API?
ReplyDeleteAnswer: We have answered this question and we will develop in the coming days, but for simplicity we had a great legal audit of all that we could do legally and applied it to the letter in order to bring maximum relevant information from the office. We seek to develop and many partnerships, we formalize the As in our communication.
We also acquired a company that develops applications and Facebook is already present in nearly 2 million fan pages and brings us an interesting visibility on all areas covered by these pages, and in all countriesYourank the algo Qwant
Qwant baptized Yourank the name of its ranking algorithm. From my basic information and my feelings (because nothing is measurable or can be tested), I would say Qwant gives a very important social, rather than Google or Bing (even if they are not increasingly interested).
In the words of Eric Léandri, here are the main components of Yourank:"
what...? this is not exactly an answer! ahh...where have they answered if their crawler is original or if they just use googles API??