Website SEO and Web 2.0
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Robert McCulloch October 09, 2006
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New sites no longer need to be submitted to a search engine to be
listed in their results. A link from an established website will get
the search engines to visit the new website and spider its contents. It
can take a few days or even weeks for search engine spiders to visit
and index a new site.
Once the search engine has found a new website it will start to
index the pages on the site as long as the pages are linked with each
other. Pages which are accessible only through Flash or Javascript
links are not indexed.
Search engine look at a number of different factors when crawling a
web page and many pages may not be indexed by the search engines. The
number of links or levels from the root directory of a site is an
important factor in whether or not a page gets crawled.
Webmasters can instruct spiders not to index certain files or
directories through the standard robots.txt file in the root directory
of the domain. Standard practice requires a search engine to check this
file when visiting the website A webmaster can use this file to prevent
pages such as shopping carts or other dynamic content from appearing in
search engine results.
For those search engines with paid submission, it may save some time
to pay a nominal fee for submission. Yahoo guarantees inclusion in
their search results, but does not guarantee specific ranking within
the search results.
Blogs change every thing about how search engines find web pages. A
Blog is an online discussion website or a log of a persons thoughts.
This allows a webmaster and/or his visitors to voice their opinion on a
specific subject in a very friendly and simple way.
A Ping is a method of informing the blog community and the search
engines that you have updated your blog and a new post or comment has
been made to your blog. So if you have new web pages you want indexed,
post a message with a link to the new pages on a blog and they will get
indexed much faster than if the link was on a website.
Not only is a blog great for getting a web page indexed, they create
clean code with the click of a button. Just type your message and click
the "Publish" and you've got a new web page. But even more important is
the speed at which the search engines index blog content. A search
engine will index blog content in as little time as a few hours. I have
even seen search engines hit a blog within seconds of posting a message
to the blog as long as the ping function is working.
Now repeat that blog and ping process three to five times a week and
before you know it you have a lot of high quality web content. And that
is just what the search engines like the most!
To get quality inbound links to your blog, don't use Reciprocal Link
programs. Google does not like reciprocal linking to get PageRank for
your website. Use comments on other blogs like your own. But do not
spam! Another good method to get one way links is article submission.
To learn more about website promotion and SEO with Web 2.0, visit
http://website-promotion-blog.info.
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