I use it for a number of important tasks related to crawling websites, checking XML sitemaps, flagging crawl errors, checking on-page optimization in bulk, etc. For example, Majestic SEO, Open Site Explorer, Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster...
Creating & Submitting Sitemaps If you haven't already, subscribe to Google's Webmaster Central blog. The Crawl Errors report is is one of my favorites offered in Google Webmaster Tools. Webmaster Central Blog
Another thing you can do to help your crawl efficiency is to monitor your indexation accurately by using segmented XML files ‐ you can do this by splitting your XML sitemaps into categories, then use the following search operators – site: geturl...
Update XML sitemaps for text content, images, and videos. The regular monitoring of the metrics and data of the webmaster tools and Google Analytics to be sure that the above tasks are gearing the site in the right direction on the web.
Video Sitemaps Take advantage of Google Webmaster Tools for creating a video sitemap. Use the following 12 valuable tips to get your video to reach the first page of Google and YouTube, but most importantly build visibility to a large niche...
urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
If we focus on the keyness factor and try to cater to correlate to a wide range of keyword data rather than focusing on the keywords alone in the URLs, titles and descriptions it gets passed on to the next layer of the emerging web, making the...
Manage sitemaps Over the past couple of years, Google has spent a significant amount of time incorporating feedback and making improvements to their Webmaster Tools. Last November, Google announced the availability of search query data in Google...
Submitting your XML sitemaps directly to engines can help them to discover new content on your site. Google Webmaster Tools also provides detailed list of broken links on your site and pinpoints the exact pages on your site from where the broken...
To force recrawls, SEOs typically use tactics like resubmitting XML sitemaps, or using a free ping service like Seesmic Ping (formerly Ping.fm) or Ping-O-Matic to try and coax a crawl, or firing a bunch of social bookmarking links at the site.
Sitemaps Here’s where you can submit new sitemaps, and be informed of the success/error status of the sitemap. You’ll also see some basic information on your sitemaps, top keywords, and top pages linked to.
Sitemaps You can also see quite clearly if there are any issues that they’ve detected within your sitemaps. The page shows you the sitemaps that you’ve submitted, the number of pages they found in each, and the number of those pages that they’ve...
This might include obvious sources and tasks you might overlook, such as analytics, sitemaps, your robots.txt file, and more. SEW Director Jonathan Allen just took a look into one such case; a webmaster suffered a loss of traffic and business post...
Have sitemaps: One of the oldest rules of SEO is to have a sitemap containing at least all top level pages linked from each page of your site. With this in mind, review your Google Webmaster Tools account within the Internal Links section.
XML Sitemaps: Forrester recommended adding an XML sitemap for relevancy as well as RSS feed information. Duane Forrester (@duaneforrester), Senior Program Manager, Bing Webmaster Tools, was next and took the audience through some of the key changes...
FREE – XML Sitemaps: A free XML sitemap generator. FREE – Webmaster Tools: Find errors on your site, broken links (both internal and external) and so much more. Webmaster Radio: Too busy to read? Webmaster Radio plays live radio geared to...
The following is a quick overview of search engine sitemap guidelines and limitations followed by a technique to help identify crawling and indexation issues using mutiple sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools.
XML Sitemaps Sitemaps don't have a great impact unless your site is on the large side, but they're easy to set up and cost nothing, so are always worth using. Sorting out canonicalization of URLs from the start is another must – you don't want...
Check out the sitemaps to make sure there is no problem there (Site configuration -> Sitemaps). Sitemaps to make sure they are properly recognized by Bing. Look at Google Webmaster Tools For the Site If Google Webmaster Tools isn't currently set up...
For the most part, the Googlebot has been set to behave identically to the news crawler when it comes to news content; a negative "Googlebot-News" entry in the robots.txt file will still halt just the news crawling, sitemaps will still be crawled...
