Sitemaps 101 - Back To SEO School

Written by Niall Roche


Sitemaps are without doubt one ofrepparttar most often ignored and undervalued aspects of search engine optimization. You've probably spent a huge amount of time working on pages of original content, keyword density and getting incoming links but never once spared a thought for a sitemap for your new creation.

What is a sitemap? Put simply it's a page or pages that contain a list of and link to allrepparttar 127742 other documents on your site. This is useful on two levels:

1. Your visitor can quickly reference allrepparttar 127743 documents on your site to find exactly what they're looking for.

2. Search engine spiders can also quickly find and index every single page of your site inrepparttar 127744 least amount of time. The SEO benefits of using a sitemap far considerable and should not be ignored.

This is a win-win situation for you, your website visitors andrepparttar 127745 search engines. Put simply you're nuts if you've not included a sitemap as part of your overall website promotion strategy.

The good news is that it's never too late to start. You can create a sitemap page today but there are some rules to creating an effective sitemap that you need to follow:

Your sitemap must only be linked to from your homepage and no other page. Why? You wantrepparttar 127746 search engine spiders to find this link directly from your homepage and follow it from there. Your sitemap MUST NOT be linked to from every other page of your site. Also from a Google Pagerank point of view only linking to your sitemap from your homepage can also "funnel" PR quickly to pages all over your site.

If you have a large website of 50 pages or more limitrepparttar 127747 number of pages listed on your sitemap to a maximum of 30. This is to prevent your sitemap from being misinterpreted as a link farm byrepparttar 127748 search engines. It also makesrepparttar 127749 sitemap a lot easier for real human visitors to read through. Limitingrepparttar 127750 number of pages listed on each sitemap to 30 might mean splitting your sitemap over 5, 10 or 20 pages. This has to be done andrepparttar 127751 long term benefits are worth it. Bear in mind that if you do create a 20 page sitemap you've just created an extra 20 pages of content for your website!

Search Engine Strategies & Rich Content.

Written by Jose L. Gonzalez


We have all heard about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). As for 2005 Search Engines, specially Google have developed outstanding systems and algorithims to test, rate and rank sites... and avoid being tricked by low value sites that want to beatrepparttar system.

As for today tricks or just meta tags or even great linking strategies, although crucial,won't give you top rankings by themselves.

Most important of all, and keep this always in mind: You need good content and you need a good distribution and use of your keywords to be atrepparttar 127741 top.

Inrepparttar 127742 end,repparttar 127743 Internet is all about information. Create good pages loaded with useful information and good distributed keywords and half ofrepparttar 127744 job is done.

Now, just for a moment sit back, get yourself a coffee and visualize your webpage. Would you trustrepparttar 127745 person who wrote those words?

Is your website neat enough to read smoothly every sentence? This is a very important part for your Web. A neat design and good copy is indeed a great ally for SEO.

You should write a neat copy first, with good info. Then proceed to tune it up to make it 'content rich' for Search Engines. There is a simple fact...

Provide quality web pages and engines will index you higher. This is how their creators make a living. they providerepparttar 127746 user with listings of quality pages to make them come back. These users then have more chances to see their ads or subscribe to their services.

If you are in a hurry, think about posting other people's articles and resources. A good plpace to go is goarticles.com

Straight forward enough.

*** What is 'keyword saturation'? ***

The times a certain word appears in your page in relation ofrepparttar 127747 total number of words in it.

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