Archive for "sitemaps"

Getting your homepage indexed in Google is only the 1st step to your SEO success. It’s important that all your key web pages are indexed and appearing for relevant searches.

For new websites (or poorly promoted websites), they often suffer from poor indexing which means you’re getting limited value from your Google exposure.

Below are 5 tips to help improve…

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Taking off with ITA – New Google Acquisition

Google has acquired ITA, a software company that specializes in managing airline data to bolster its airline search offering.

Extra! Extra! Google News redesigned to be more customizable and shareable

Google news gets an official homepage overhaul designed to make the news that you see more relevant to…

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Google have given us an insight into the effectiveness of sitemaps through a recent study.

Sitemaps are an easy way for web site owners to help search engines index pages on their web sites. Google initially announced sitemaps as an experiment back in 2005, with Yahoo! and Microsoft jumping on board not long after.

Until now, there has been little…

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Sitemaps are a great tool for webmasters, as they inform search engines of the pages within your website, how important each page is and the frequency with which you update them. Google was the first to offer an xml based sitemap service, but after the recent news that Yahoo! and Microsoft have endorsed the sitemaps standard, we thought…

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Google today announced that they have released a beta program that will increase the amount of control that site owners and search engine marketers have over which pages are indexed by “googlebot”.

The experimental program (which according to Google Engineer Shiva Shivakumar will “either fail miserably or succeed beyond our wildest dreams“) is called Google Sitemaps and aims to optimize…

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