The Right Way To Think About Site Maps

... site map and show you what an effective one looks like, chances are you will get 100 different answers. To many SEO professionals, a site map is an XML site map that one submits to Google containing URLs to every web page on a site. To others, a site map is a single web page with a semi-organized list ...
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Aug. 9, 2007 at 9:15am Eastern by Shari Thurow

Yes, Mom, Search Marketing IS A Valid Career Choice

... 3 hours. shame on you. Tab over a bit and you'll start to see the vast array of online tools available to you, a career search geek. Everything from XML sitemap builders to keyword research tools. Heaven help you the day you forget a password—you'll be all theory and no action. Colleagues ...
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Dec. 19, 2007 at 7:04am Eastern by Duane Forrester

Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft Clarify Robots.txt Support

... list the directives they support that may not be supported by the other engines. For robots.txt, they all support: Disallow Allow Use of wildcards Sitemap location For robots meta tags, they all support: noindex nofollow noarchive nosnippetnoodpt With this announcement, Microsoft appears to be adding ...
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Jun. 3, 2008 at 12:11pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Sitemaps.org Update: You Can Now Store Your XML Sitemap Files Anywhere!

The major search engines have announced an update to the sitemaps.org protocol which enables site owners to store their XML Sitemap files in any location -- even on a different domain than the one referenced in the Sitemap. This will be a welcome change for those who manage multiple domains and would ...

Feb. 27, 2008 at 9:13pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Up Close & Personal With Robots.txt

... in his presentation and its impact. This will eliminate the need to submit sitemaps to each engine separately. Essentially, sitemaps are a simple XML file that lists URLS and information about the URLS to help spiders do a better job of crawling a site. See www.sitemaps.org for more details. Ask.com ...
Related Searches: Robots.txt | Robots | Sitemap

Apr. 16, 2007 at 1:15pm Eastern by Christine Churchill

Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery

... Google and Ask now Yahoo and Microsoft. Information on how to create sitemaps files can be found at the Sitemaps.org site. Aside from the sitemaps XML formal, you can also provide RSS 2.0 or Atom 0.3 or 1.0 feeds. That's handy for those with blogs that already generate these feeds. Sitemaps XML files ...
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Apr. 11, 2007 at 8:07am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 28, 2008

... this exercise with each inner page of the site as well. Is what each page has to offer, truly crystal. Sitemaps.org Update: You Can Now Store Your XML Sitemap Files Anywhere! The major search engines have announced an update to the sitemaps.org protocol which enables site owners to store their XML Sitemap ...

Feb. 28, 2008 at 9:06pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Free Web Design Tools From The Big Three: SEO Friendly Or Not?

... The items I selected for review are: Title Tag Heading Tag Bold/Strong Tag META Keywords Tag META Description Tag Alt Attribute Tag Filename Control Sitemap XML Support Test One – Title Tag Control Will the tool let you control the text included in the title? Why You Should Care: The title tag is ...
Related Searches: Javascript | Sitemap | Alt Tags | Meta Tags

May. 3, 2007 at 1:15pm Eastern by Christine Churchill

Which Google Products Should A Small Business Use? (Part Two)

... you bid on. None of the keyword research tools can give you this kind of data. Google Webmaster Central What started out as a place to submit XML sitemaps to Google has really blossomed into a must-use tool for most small businesses. On a practical level, it's the only way to get close to having a complete ...
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Oct. 11, 2007 at 7:09am Eastern by Matt McGee

Search Month: Februrary 2008 Search News, In Review

Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It's also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from February 2008, then a major story for various search topics along with other ...
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 10:46am Eastern by Danny Sullivan