How to obtain and update the thumbnail of A thumbshots website

The veteran webmaster is certainly familiar with thumbshots.org, which provides thumbnails for countless seo query tool websites. The most well-known chinaz is also a thumbnail generated using the thumbshots interface. When you use the webmaster tool to query the seo status of the website, you will find a small thumbnail on the right. This is the thumbnail service provided by thumbshots. It can be said that thumbshots is a very authoritative website thumbnail service.

　　

 

If the thumbnail is of greater significance to the webmaster at the early stage of website construction. With thumbshots, you can see the original appearance of your website. Thumbshots is in the webmaster circle, which is equivalent to a face on the front of a website. Thumbnails are very beautiful. The higher the possibility of being noticed by webmasters, the webmasters may be dealing with transactions and links. For thumbshots thumbnails, most webmasters only care about two issues: how new station thumbnails are quickly indexed and how old station thumbnails are updated. This article mainly introduces these two skills.

How to include new site thumbnails in thumbshots

Thumbshots is used to collect the content of a new website. It is a page formed by crawling the website content through a spider robot and executing the script. That is to say, thumbshots will definitely send robots to visit the website. As long as the website is accessed by robots and the website is normal, thumbnails can be obtained, and this is a very short process. The process of sending robots to visit is actually the same process as the so-called spider cited in seo. For more details about the indexing-capturing process, here is an English document that describes the entire working principle of thumbshots: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/foulonneau/01foulonneau.html. Based on this document, I will briefly describe the thumbshots indexing techniques. This article divides the index-capturing process into "passive" and "active ". The passive mode is a process in which the thumbshots robot crawls the external chain. When a new station accumulates a certain amount of external links, the thumbshots robot will notice the existence of the new station and crawl the new station. However, the accumulation process of this external link is different from that of seo: webmasters usually put their website links on high-weight websites when doing seo, such a website must be an old website. thumbshots prefers to crawl a new website because the new website has a thumbnail that is not in its database. Therefore, if you want to accumulate external links for thumbshots crawling thumbnails, you must constantly put links on some new sites, especially the homepage of the new sites. Another so-called "Active Mode" is to introduce robot spider through some means. Here, we will make some articles on thumbshots.org. Thumbshots.org itself should be a non-profit website, but we can see that thumbshots.org has been permanently migrated to thumbshots.com and learned through some information in thumbshots.com, thumbshots allows you to charge a monthly quota fee to update the thumbnails of each url. This is obviously not cost-effective for our webmaster. Next I will introduce a method that can be included in thumbshots without money.

　　

 

Taking xiumeng network as an example, we should first register an account and enter "SHOWMENG. enter "www.showmeng.com", "First name", and "Last name". After registration, thumbshots can generate an exclusive page for you, which contains "SHOWMENG. COM "and" www.showmeng.com. That is to say, we have created two exclusive text external links in thumbshots.

　　

 

After registration, you can wait for the thumbshots to be included and capture the thumbnail. A new station uses this method, and the average crawling time is 24 hours.

Method for updating the thumbnail of the old site by thumbshots

It is relatively easy for the new site to be indexed to generate thumbnails. The following describes in detail how the old site is updated by thumbshots. This is not a simple task. According to the English literature mentioned above, the author recommended a method is as follows: first, you need to understand thumbshots API: "http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf? Url = ***. com ". The attribute url corresponding to the" URL "parameter is the url of the thumbnail of the target website. You can also use this URL to view thumbnails of your website. This thumbnail is usually not updated once generated. That is to say, when the homepage of your website is revised, the thumbnail is still in the old version. We should start with this API to update thumbnails. Second, access a page that does not exist, that is, you can jump to the page of website 404, add this API to execute, such as: "http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf? Url = showmeng.com/blog /". The blog directory does not exist. If the data description of this field is not found in the thumbshots database, a thumbnail of the home page will be generated again. In this case, the thumbnail is not changed. Finally, it is also the core step. Thumbshots has noticed that the same website has two different thumbnails. What we need to do is to replace the original thumbnail with the newly captured thumbnail for updating. We can do this: first set the website 301 to permanent orientation, you can direct the www domain name to a primary domain name without www, generate a thumbnail of the www domain name, and then direct the primary domain name without www to a domain name with www, then, a thumbnail of the primary domain name without www is generated. After such a process, we get two different thumbnails, which correspond to the same page. In thumbshots, adding a 404 page thumbnail actually produces two errors. These two errors need to be manually solved, that is, thumbshots will manually determine the source and cause of the error, delete the original thumbnail, and generate a new thumbnail. The final process is actually completed by thumbshots. Of course, the thumbnail generated by it is the latest thumbnail.

* This article is the first of the red/Black alliance and is original to xiumeng. For more information, see the source.