XML sitemaps inform search engines about the pages available to crawl on your website. Search engines find new pages by navigating links on websites. Sitemaps enhance search engine crawling by providing explicit information about the specific urls on your website. Sitemaps don’t ensure that your webpages will be indexed, but they typically increase both the chance and speed of indexing.
If you have fresh content on your blog or website, it is prudent to make sure the search engines know about this to get the content indexed as soon as possible. One way this is done is by pinging your xml sitemap. Although there are many search engines and services you can ping your sitemap to, make sure you concentrate on the big 3: Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
So, how do you automatically ping your updated sitemap each time your website updates? Read How to Ping Your Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, and Bing to find out:
An effective link building strategy is very important to achieve high search engine rankings, and lots of quality, converting website traffic. Getting good at link building, like anything else, takes a lot of learning, practice, and patience. If you have a lot of competition for your keywords, link building will take a lot of time and effort, but is rewarding when done correctly. To maximize your efforts, it is important to practice safe and smart link building, and not get stuck in the many pitfalls out there that can negatively impact your rankings.
Here is a list of 20 Link Building Strategy Do’s and Dont’s to help you with your link building campaigns:
The fact that the inner workings of search engine algorithms are secret and constantly evolving creates a lot of conflicting advice, tips, and recommendations in the SEO industry. The enormous uncertainty in the search engine market has created an ideal breeding ground for SEO myths. Bear in mind some of these myths were truth before, but have become myths due to the change in the search engine algorithms.
There are many myths and conflicting advice out there, my recommendation would be to learn from as many sources and qualified individuals as possible in coming to your own conclusions.
Here are my 10 SEO Myths to be aware of, that I like to call Search Engine Legends:
The debate between dofollow blog comments vs nofollow has been healthy since the nofollow attribute was introduced by Google and Jason Shellen of Blogger in 2005.
Recent changes made public by Matt Cutts in the way Google handles PageRank have added another advantage to having a dofollow blog. Page Rank Sculpting, which involves nofollowing comments for the purpose of directing link authority, has been revealed as ineffective for about a year so far.
In light of these recent changes, I have decided to make my blog’s comments dofollow. Here are the reasons for and against dofollow blog comments I evaluated in reaching my decision:
Ever since Google introduced nofollow links in 2005, they have been hotly debated in the SEO community. Their controversy seems to have grown each year, and with recent changes in Google’s algorithm the blogosphere is buzzing more than ever about them.
If you have a website and have a link building strategy (which you should), it is very important to know about the difference between dofollow and nofollow links. This post provides a solid overview of nofollow links, and some additional resources to learn more about them.
