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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Search Engine Optimization

Google has a sitemap tool that is supposed to be used for indexing websites (faster?) as opposed to having just a 'sitemap.html' in the main folder of say, a redneck fun website.
I created a christmas site using that utility a few months ago.
Since then, I have been watching like an alien the search engine results on google, yahoo, and msn and find that yahoo and msn would find pages on my sites much faster than google did while using this so-called tool. My Halloween site was posted on the google-sitemap-utility-site, since it was new, in the hopes that it would get indexed quickly. The only thing that seemed be found quickly by google was the main page, which was just a few days. It took a good 2&1/2 months for any other pages to show up while yahoo and msn had already found those pages in about 3&1/2 weeks.
All the while, I see where google spiders from several different regions have been viewing the sites on a daily basis; sometimes viewing a single page and other times viewing several pages.
It seems to me that this sitemap tool by google is nothing more than an excuse for their spiders to do less work. In any case, I and a others have found that the tool ( google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login ) is not very efficient.
I have resumed using "sitemap.html" files for getting my sites indexed by Google.
To be continued...

Thursday, August 09, 2007

One Way Links To Your Website


We have all invested time and effort into the development of our websites, yet few of us know how to 'Get more traffic to a website' get visitors. Increasing traffic to your website with visitors that are ready to buy your product is paramount to the success of most any commercial site; without traffic, failure may be on the horizon. "You have to spend money, to make money", and there may be no better way to make that money than "internet word of mouth". Get noticed by the search engines while simultaneously bringing in visitors that want to buy your products by creating an authoritative reputation. And no, I am not trying to sell you an e-book.

Wegetyoulinks.com creates text based web pages with links describing your web site product/s and/or service/s. In other words, we create web pages with one-way links. One-way links are wonderful things to have because they increase your 'Link popularity is a measure of the quantity and quality of other web sites that link to a specific site on the World Wide Web'. Search engines such as Google place huge importance on link popularity when ranking your site.

The issue is getting quality links on sites that are relevant to your own. We are usually at the mercy of the 'other' webmaster and frequently have little control when it comes to how the links are worded and where they are posted; not to mention a 'no follow' tag. Webmasters want links from relevant sites pointing back to their site yet, in order to get them, the other site wants a back link. That's all good but, a problem that can occur is when they put that backlink on a 'links page'. Well, that is a link, but it could be more effective.
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I want a backlink on the same page that talks about my products but, that's not always in the best interest of the that other website. Paid links used to be considered a good way to go, but now the search engines are getting wise and those appear to have a diminishing value especially when the referring page content was not directly related to the referenced content.
We-get-you-links webpages only talk about your product(s) and only have links to your main website, sending both the search engine spiders and visitors to your site.