Listener's Questions

Joe and Sequita tackle listeners questions and problems.

Some of the questions we answered were:

I read having anchor text is important on a site when describing other pages. Is this correct? What is the best way to do that?

I want to put my product descriptions in a pop-up window, is that bad for SEO?

My company has been doing link exchanges for over a year now, but our rankings have not improved. What are we doing wrong?

..and much more.

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Getting into Google News

How do you get into Google news? Inside tips! Why your old urls are worth keeping. How many links do you need to out rank your competition? To get listed into Google and Yahoo News...

Google News https://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/request.py?contact

Yahoo News http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/news/cgi_submitsource

...and much more

 

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Top 7 mistakes, Google news, SEO in India and more.
Joe talks about top 7 SEO mistakes new site owners make. He also covers some Google news, ODP meta tag, SEO in India and much more.
 
How to create and submit an XML sitemap using free tools

Information on XML sitemaps

Please note that the Sitemap Protocol supplements, but does not replace, the crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. By submitting a Sitemap (or Sitemaps) to a search engine, you will help that engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Using this protocol does not guarantee that your web pages will be included in search indexes. (Note that using this protocol will not influence the way your pages are ranked by Google.)

Can I use an XML sitemap as a substitution for a robot.txt file?

No, you must still use a robots.txt file to restricted the engines from pages and folders you do not want them to index.

Will submitting an XML sitemap increase my pagerank?

No, it will not. An XML sitemap has nothing to do with pagerank.

Will submitting a sitemap get me out of the sandbox or supplemental index?

No, it will not. Submitting a sitemap will not help you with either of these problems

I've submitted a sitemap and may site is still not being fully crawled. Why?

There could be other factors involved. Check your sites navigation. Make sure all your links are accessible and spiderable.

To generate a sitemap go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

http://www.sitemapdoc.com/

To upload your file to your server you can use an FTP program such as FileZilla

It's free http://www.download.com/FileZilla/3000-2160_4-10308966.html

Submit a sitemap to Yahoo http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Submit a sitemap to Google www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

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Most frequently asked question and mistakes about SEO and web design

We revisit this and cover some common mistakes with newbies when building a site. We also cover myths and what most people may not know when optimizing a website. We also touch on XML sitemaps and talk about the video cast.

 

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