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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Unlike a map made with HTML, the XML Sitemap is a site map that will be used by different search engines to find all the links within your website
Among the advantages of using XML Sitemap, that HTML can’t give you, we have:
- Choosing the priority in which your pages will be indexed.
- Choosing the pages you don’t want to index.
- Will allow the search engines every single page of your site.
- Will allow all the search engines about your updates.
As you can see, this is a really important thing to have. It’s like your eyes and ears.
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Before starting this article let me tell you something: I’m not a design nor a SEO Guru. I’m simple here to share with you all a little article I read. If somebody does not agree with the points stated here, please let us all know.
According to a recent article I read at Promotion World there are many important factors that influence a lot a web site’s design and it’s SEO. Which is very important if we really want to place your webpage among the first results.
Flash is not recommended:
I know already that many of us love the Flash animations, because we can create amazing effects with it. But we have to remember the spiders cannot index anything that is too Flash-y. Try not to over-Flash your site. In case you still want to do something cool, just go for something like XHTML.
Don’t use Frames:
The same thing applies here like with Flash, spiders have a very hard time indexing all the info split in frames. And every-time someone tries to find you in a search engine, there’ll be a message saying “We’re sorry you need a frame supported explorer to go into this site”. Just take all the frames off you web. In case you really need to use them, go for a more Search Engine friendly way, for example NOFRAMESandgt tag, so your content will be indexed without much problem.
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Website Grader grades your site, just like when you were at school, it gives you a calification of how good or bad your web site is. It’s a free SEO tool.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Since I’m not a pro in this whole SEO thing I decided to do my own research. I came across with Search Engine Land, where they talk about “10 myths of SEO”. I don’t know if this is all true or not, but I thought that sharing this would be interesting.
Check them out:
Adding your URL to the search engines: This may have helped once upon a time, but it’s been at least 5 or 6 years since that’s been necessary.
You need a Google Sitemap: If your site was built correctly, i.e., it’s crawler-friendly, you certainly don’t need a Google Sitemap.
You need to update your site frequently: frequent updates to your pages may increase the search engine crawl rate, but it won’t increase your rankings. If your site doesn’t need to change, don’t change it just because you think the search engines will like it better.
keep on reading…
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