What is a Google sitemap?
A Google sitemap is a simple XML document which lists all the pages in your website, but it serves a very important purpose. Google sitemaps provide a window into the way Google indexes an entire site. They can also tell you quite a bit about what Google thinks of your website.
Secrets of Getting a Great Google Ranking
One of the bad things about internet marketing is that it doesn’t matter how great your product is, or how much of a bargain your items are going for, if you don’t have traffic, it simply doesn’t matter. In order to get traffic, you have to understand where it comes from. Almost 90% of the world that needs to find something on the internet uses a search engine, and Google is currently the king of the search engine field. That means in order for you to reach your target audience, Google is going to become your best friends. There are three things you’ll need to remember when it comes to getting a stellar ranking on Google.
Should You Handle Your Own SEO?
If you’re trying to save a bit of money, and you’re considering handling your own SEO for your website, there are a few points you should keep in mind before getting rid of that expensive SEO company. The first and most important thing you’ll need to consider is the time you have available to dedicate to the task. SEO doesn’t take place over night, and you’ll need to devote some serious hours to it in order for your site to rank higher in popular search engines. The second thing you’ll need to consider is your HTML knowledge. You’ll need to feel comfortable adding and editing meta tags in HTML documents, as well as bold text, setting up links, change text formatting, renaming images, and moving javascript into a .js file. If any of these things I’ve mentioned seem like they’re out of your league, it’s probably wise to let someone else handle your SEO.
Navigating the Sea of SEO
Although the internet has been described as an online super highway, a more fitting description is an ocean with a million destinations, a huge sea in which everything merges into everything else. There’s no center, nothing to measure. So how do you ensure you get found in this vast ocean of information? Your site will need to be indexed, and you’ll need to achieve a relatively high ranking for your keywords in order to attract people to your niche of the ocean. In order to do this, you’ll need to better understand how search engine crawlers work.
Will Google Suggest Change The Playing Field?
Google could very well be changing the entire SEO game on us very shortly thanks to their improvement on the Google Suggest tool. If you’re not already familiar with it, we’ve seen it very active in Google Chrome and every other Google toolbar out there as a way to offer up suggestions as to what the user is actually looking for. The Suggest tool manages to negate a lot of the issues that people had been having with entering in misspelled words and what not. This will specifically cut out those website owners that managed to make their site what it is today due to the use of misspelled domain names.
10 Tips For Refreshing Your SEO Knowledge
New to SEO or just looking for a quick refresher course? Perhaps you’re looking to point someone in the right direction so they don’t take the wrong first step forward?
If Content Is King, What’s Quantity?
Content is King. Period the end.
But how much content is the question?
You’ll hear many different answers regarding this question, and they all do hold some weight, but the truth of the matter is that we’ve already seen the results of this and can attest that quantity is the least important part of content when it comes to SEO.
Google Insight For Search A Keyword Polling Substitute?
With the recent knock to those using 3rd party tools to get keyword results back from Google, it’s interesting to see that they’ve at least launched a solution that may fill the gap in some way. While you’re not going to get as direct of a readout and be on your way as you could do before, the launch of Google Insight For Search has at least improved upon the information you had previously gleamed from their Google Trends service.
Caroline Melberg’s False Claims On Over Posting Content
You’ve always been told that the more content you add to your website, the better off it is. But have you grasped the fact that it needs to be done both consistently and in a timely fashion? Doing otherwise may actually hurt your chances of reaching your desired rank.
Google Ends Automated Polling Tools
In a move that has single handedly put the SEO gossip community into a tizzy, Google has banned automated traffic from extracting results from their search engine.
