FAQ
How does it work?
Agency Malta is a small scale search engine that crawls local marketing agency websites looking for projects and blog posts to index.
My agency isn't listed. How can I fix this?
You can submit your agency website to be listed using the form below. We'll e-mail you when your site is being indexed by Agency Malta.
Keep in mind that for your website to be indexed, there are some requirements for your website's URL structure - the next two questions in the FAQ cover these topics.
Our agency's projects aren't being indexed.
If you've already submitted your agency to be listed, there might be some other issues that are preventing your projects from being indexed. In order for our crawler to correctly identify projects, the URL structure of your website needs to indicate which pages are project pages in some way.
https://example.org.mt/portfolio/malta-rebrand
https://example.org.mt/case-studies/gozo-as-you-like-it
https://example.org.mt/malta-rebrand
https://example.org.mt/2023/09/23/gozo-as-you-like-it
Our agency's blog posts aren't being indexed.
If you've already submitted your agency to be listed, there might be some other issues that are preventing your blog posts from being indexed. In order for our crawler to correctly identify blog posts, the URL structure of your website needs to indicate which pages are blog post pages in some way.
https://example.org.mt/blog/reinventing-marketing
https://example.org.mt/articles/getting-the-best-out-of-social-media
https://example.org.mt/reinventing-marketing
https://example.org.mt/2023/09/23/getting-the-best-out-of-social-media
How can I control which part of my agency website gets indexed?
Our crawler goes by the name of AgencyMalta and respects the rules laid out in your robots.txt file. If you don't want certain blog posts or projects indexed by us, simply disallow our bot from indexing those specific pages.
I noticed a promoted project on the homepage. How can I promote my own projects?
Check out our Advertising page for details.
I noticed a promoted link on the projects page. How can I promote my own links?
Check out our Advertising page for details.
How can I control and improve the indexing of my agency's projects?
The Agency Malta crawler will attempt to extract information from your project page using a variety of methods. Most control is awarded to webmasters who markup their pages with rich data, and is the recommended method to improve the indexing of your agency's projects.
If you don't already have one, adding a sitemap to your website will also improve the indexing on Agency Malta.
headline
, description
and image
data from there. If not found, the crawler will fall back to scraping other tags such as og:title
, og:description
and og:image
respectively.
serviceType
data from there. If not found, the crawler will attempt to analyse the text of the page and extract services from there.
brand
and will extract name
data from there. If not found, the crawler will attempt to analyse the text of the page and extract the client name from there.
How can I control and improve the indexing of my agency's blog posts?
The Agency Malta crawler will attempt to extract information from your blog post page using a variety of methods. Most control is awarded to webmasters who markup their pages with rich data, and is the recommended method to improve the indexing of your agency's blog posts.
If you don't already have one, adding a sitemap to your website will also improve the indexing on Agency Malta.
headline
, description
, image
and datePublished
data from there. If not found, the crawler will fall back to scraping other tags such as og:title
, og:description
and og:image
tags, as well as searching the page for relevant date published information.