In the late 90s, submitting your site to a search engine meant entering your site URL into the search engines where your site would then be crawled and indexed. Nowadays things are quite different. Each search engine has its own “Webmaster Tools” section where they ask you to create and submit a dynamic sitemap telling them exactly what content you have on your site and how important it is.
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Search Engine Submission
Posted in Link Building Also tagged Backlinks, Content Management System, Dynamic Sitemaps, Google, integrated rss, pinging, search engine submission, URL Leave a comment
Most Important Google Analytics Elements
Google Analytics is a set of free tools offered by Google. They allow website owners to view detailed statistics about their websites and how viewers use them. Information is also available regarding where web traffic comes from. Because it is free, easy to use and simple to acquire, everyone with a website should be using it. While Google Analytics is loaded with features, there are several features that stand above the rest.
- Interface: The interface provided by Google Analytics is both simple and intuitive. A few clicks of the mouse grants you access to all the information you could ever want regarding your website. From the number of visitors to the keywords they used to find you, the user interface brings it all together.
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Google Social Search
Google Social Search is a new, experimental feature just released on October 27. Theoretically, it’s supposed to add functionality to your search page by highlighting web pages associated with your contacts within your results page. All you have to do is sign up within your Gmail account.
Google’s example in recent social search tutorials was restaurant-hunting. If you’re looking for a good restaurant, the best thing is a personal recommendation, but you may not have one. Search for a restaurant name, and maybe someone in your contact list has reviewed it online, or mentioned it in their blog. In this case it should show up in this special portion of your search results page.
Posted in Search Engines Also tagged bing, Blogs, Facebook, Gmail, Google, search page, social search, social tool, Twitter, web pages Leave a comment
Organic Search Engine Rankings
Wikipedia defines Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.
Posted in SEM Also tagged Content, Organic Search, Organic Search Engine Optimization, Organic Search Engine Rankings, organic search results, Ranking, SEM, SEO Comments closed