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Keywords
SEO
The factors that play a role in your web site's ranking
Hyperlink
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Alternative traffic promotion techniques
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Creating effective body descriptions
Writing content: focus on your target audience!
Writing a
business
website homepage
Links
Website's linking architecture
16 rules for a good link exchange request
Pay per click
Pay-per-click: How to increase the
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Pay-per-click search engines list
Pay-per-click:
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How to improve effectiveness in PPC
Pay-per-click:
How to chose keywords
Pay-per-click: Google AdWords account structure
Pay-per-click: Yahoo Search Marketing (SM)
Domain names
Content
spidering
CIRCA technology: applied semantics to search engines
Latent semantic indexing (LSI)
Google's ranking algorithm
part 1/4
Google's ranking algorithm
part 2/4
Google's ranking algorithm
part 3/4
Google's ranking algorithm
part 4/4
Google's
original
patent:
how Google
works
Google's sandbox: delayed inclusion of new websites
Google's penalties: getting penalized
search engines
How search engines evaluate relevancy when ranking search results
How to be informed when a search engine spider visits your site
How to instruct
spiders by means
of the head-tag
How to prevent
duplicate content
Australian search engines list
World major search engine list
Web searchers' behaviour: shocking web users' statistics
Listing expectations: how much better is ranking No. 1 versus No. 10?
web marketing
Seven reasons
why customers
don't buy
12 ways to exceed your client's expectations every time!
Market reseach for new online business
How to set up your best customer profile
12 tips to build
a new SEO
Career
How to market your website: five keys to web site marketing success
How to market your website: the five web marketing laws
How to market your website: miscellaneous marketing strategies
How to market your website: a mixed marketing media approach
miscellaneous
Are you cross-browser compatible? Learn how to do it
Javascript to let visitors bookmark your website
Why your web pages don't load fast enough
Javascript to open a link in a new window
Despite the name, Google Sitemaps is not a tool that creates sitemaps for your web site. Google Sitemaps is another way to submit your web pages to Google.
What is Google Sitemaps?
Google calls it "a beta 'ecosystem' that may help webmasters with two current challenges: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index".
Google SiteMaps allows you to tell Google which web sites it should crawl and it allows you to tell Google that the content on your site has changed.
How do you submit your sitemap to Google Sitemaps?
The easiest way to submit your web page URLs to Google Sitemaps is to create a list of URLs in plain text format:
http://www.example.com/index.htm
http://www.example.com/page1.htm
http://www.example.com/page2.htm
http://www.example.com/directory/whatever.htm
Enter one URL per line and save that list with the file ending .xml. Then login to Google Sitemaps and upload that file.
Google also offers a more sophisticated tool (which is rather complicated) that allows you to create a sitemap but a plain list will also do. Third party tools are also available.
Does this increase your Google rankings?
No, it doesn't. Using Google Sitemaps will not influence your rankings. You just tell Google that your web pages exist. Google still uses its normal ranking algorithms to determine the ranking of your web pages.
Google even makes no guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or added to the index if you use Google Sitemaps.
What does this mean to your web site?
Google Sitemaps might be useful to you if your web pages aren't crawled by Google's spider. However, you won't increase your Google rankings by using Google Sitemaps.
If Google's spider hasn't crawled your web site yet, your web site probably doesn't have enough good incoming links. If your web site has many good incoming links, Google's spider will find your web site anyway.
In addition, good incoming links tell Google that your web site is important and that it deserves high rankings.
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