Google Site Map Program
Google does attempt to make things easy for us to get our websites indexed and ranked decently. They provide free tools to assist in this process and I would highly recommend taking advantage of them. After all they are free and they're solid information providing tools.
You should have your site participate in the Google Site Map Program. For free, zero dollars, just a little effort on your part, this program allows you to analyze and optimize your search for Google indexing and searches. Whatever you can do that makes your site rank higher on Google will make it rank higher on most other search engines.
Google Site Map will allow you first to identify yourself as the owner of the website in question, then it will provide you with all sorts of detailed statistics regarding searches, ranking, and analysis of your site. You'll be able to see how many links your site has from where, and what keywords people used when they found your site. You'll be able to set Google's crawl rate so it refreshes your site adequately without swamping it.
The data sitemaps provides, the keywords people use to link to you and the keywords people use to search that resulted in your site being included in the results and the ranking in those results is very valuable as it will allow you to tune your sites title, meta data, and content to match these.
You sign up for the service, then you claim websites that are yours. There are a variety of ways to do this, one involves placing a meta tag they provide into your web page. After you do this Google will crawl the page and check for it's existence and after that you are the recognized owner at which point you can get all sorts of useful information about your site and how Google and end users see it.
You should have your site participate in the Google Site Map Program. For free, zero dollars, just a little effort on your part, this program allows you to analyze and optimize your search for Google indexing and searches. Whatever you can do that makes your site rank higher on Google will make it rank higher on most other search engines.
Google Site Map will allow you first to identify yourself as the owner of the website in question, then it will provide you with all sorts of detailed statistics regarding searches, ranking, and analysis of your site. You'll be able to see how many links your site has from where, and what keywords people used when they found your site. You'll be able to set Google's crawl rate so it refreshes your site adequately without swamping it.
The data sitemaps provides, the keywords people use to link to you and the keywords people use to search that resulted in your site being included in the results and the ranking in those results is very valuable as it will allow you to tune your sites title, meta data, and content to match these.
You sign up for the service, then you claim websites that are yours. There are a variety of ways to do this, one involves placing a meta tag they provide into your web page. After you do this Google will crawl the page and check for it's existence and after that you are the recognized owner at which point you can get all sorts of useful information about your site and how Google and end users see it.
posted by Nanook at 7:52 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for the helpful information, your site is going to become a favorite of mine.
J Van Der Hove
Thank you. Hopefully I can give it (the site) more time. Life has been sufficiently crazy to make that difficult lately.
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