You can help the crawlers learn about all of the pages on your site by telling them where your Sitemap is located. Note: Ignore the character suggestions below and take a look at my pro tips referenced earlier.
The idea of using keywords to help Google better sort the news isn’t entirely new; publishers have been able to use the ”keywords” tag in the News XML sitemap at each new article upload for some time.
XML Sitemap issues All search engines provide a way for site owners to submit XML sitemap so it makes sense to utilize this feature. It helps engines to discover all your content and eliminates any duplicate content issues as your sitemap should...
This takes you to a screen to enter a sitemap URL and to enter some basic day parting information. Here’s where you can submit new sitemaps, and be informed of the success/error status of the sitemap.
To test a sitemap, click the add/test sitemap button, and GWT will inform you if the sitemap appears to be valid. If it is then simply add the sitemap using the same procedure, except clicking the add sitemap button.
Update or create your XML sitemap and upload it to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools. A clean and relevant incoming link profile is important; cleaning up bad links is a necessity until we can tell Google and Bing which links we want...
Take this information and compare it to the sitemap of the desktop site and the goals you have set for the mobile site. Most SEOs ignore these things, but they can affect the load time and indexing of the site (great article on this here).
On-site, ensure that you have your location(s) address in text in the site footer or if you have many locations, feature a text-based location sitemap. We shouldn't ignore Bing or Yahoo, but with Google's current market share, it's a good idea to...
Any deep content should have explicit, canonical URLs defined in a XML sitemap file for Bing. Bing's is a decidedly "shoppy" demographic that e-commerce companies should not ignore. They have control of the press (can you think of a day in a recent...
For best results, sites should submit a permalink sitemap that mirrors their video XML feed. In creating an XML feed, search engines give disproportionate weighting to the title of the video, and ignore most other metadata associated with the feed.
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Many sites I visit and review have underutilized sitemap pages. A good example of a well-optimized sitemap can be found at the Web site for The Inn at Fox Hollow on Long Island, New York. Using these three links, I can group my pages about rentals...
Finally, consider adding an XML sitemap to your site, which can be submitted to search engines to provide "hints" about the content and pages of your site. Avoid embedding your site navigation in Javascript, Flash or other code that the search...
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