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- Basic SEO Troubleshooting With XML Sitemaps
- by Ben Goodsell, Search Engine Watch, February 13, 2012. "... The following is a quick overview of search engine sitemap guidelines and limitations followed by a technique to help identify crawling and indexation issues using mutiple sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools..."
Added: 16 February 2012;
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- 1 Easy Way to Audit your XML Sitemap
- by David Malmborg. SEO Blog, April 25, 2011. Your XML site map must be perfect - you don't want 404 pages, 301 or 302 redirects or URLs with different canonicals. Provides a working example using Excel and The Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool.
Added: 2 May 2011;
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- Exposing your website to search engines
- Central Office of Information. Guidance number: TG122; Date issued: March 2009; Version: 1.0. "XML Sitemaps are the mandated means for improving the exposure of online content to Internet search engines and archiving tools. This document explains the purpose of, and provides guidance for, the deployment of XML Sitemaps on UK Public Sector Websites..."
Added: 14 April 2010;
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- Sitemaps and SEO
- By WebAssist. Site Pro News, 23 November 2009. "Creating an HTML sitemap and a XML sitemap for your website could be the easiest thing you do to improve your exposure on the web. For those of you who pay close attention to the search engine optimization (SEO) of your site, this could be the one thing that gets you onto the first page of Google's results. For those who don't devote too much time on the SEO of their site - this is a good place to start. By submitting a sitemap to various search engines, you are telling them that you exist and what pages your site has to offer the World Wide Web..."
Added: 26 November 2009;
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- Google Video Sitemaps - What Are They and How to Create One
- Posted by Grant Hilton. Bruce Clay Inc., 17 September 2009. "... Creating a Google Video Sitemap is an integral part of Video SEO that must not be ignored if you want your videos to be indexed and ideally rank for relevant keywords. In the Google Video Sitemap you can add information about each video such as title, description, rating, duration, category, expiration date and more. A Google Video Sitemap is a great way to alert Google that you have a video at a specific landing page..."
Added: 18 September 2009;
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- Don't Ignore Your Sitemap!
- By Carrie Hill, Search Engine Watch, April 28, 2009. "... Sitemaps can be valuable tools for pointing strong internal links at various pages of your Web site. Internal linking is just one factor in the many that make up the ranking algorithms, but the double-duty sitemap can be beneficial for SEO and users, so giving that page some attention can pay off with better crawling and more internal pages ranking for your long-tail terms..."
Added: 30 April 2009;
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- The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist for Site Maps
- by Stoney deGeyter. Search Engine Guide, September 30, 2008. "This list covers issues related primarily to on-site site maps but can also be relevant for xml site maps..."
Added: 2 October 2008;
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- Software Review: A1 Sitemap Generator
- By Lee Underwood. Webreference.com, February 8, 2008. "A software review of the A1 Sitemap Generator created by Micro-Sys, a Denmark-based company. Using A1 Sitemap Generator is straightfoward; it also offers several powerful features. In addition to Google sitemaps you can create other types as well, e.g., HTML, RSS and text..."
Added: 22 February 2008;
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- 9 Tips for Creating a Site Map for Visitors and Spiders
- By Stoney deGeyter. Search Engine Guide, February 12, 2008. "Not every site needs a site map, they can certainly be a good idea. Site maps provide a dual purpose: They provide search engine spiders easy access to all of your site pages and they provide site visitors easy access to all of your site pages. The difference is that search engines and visitors access your site map differently and therefore there are different methods that need to be applied to creating site map(s) that are friendly for both engines and search spiders..."
Added: 13 February 2008;
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- The Right Way To Think About Site Maps
- by Shari Thurow. Search Engine Land, August 9, 2007. "If you asked one hundred search engine optimization professionals to explain a site map and show you what an effective one looks like, chances are you will get 100 different answers. To many SEO professionals, a site map is an XML site map that one submits to Google containing URLs to every web page on a site. To others, a site map is a single web page with a semi-organized list of blue, underlined text links with keywords. For larger sites, a site map is a series of web pages (with only 100-150 links per site-map page) with a list of blue, underlined text links, usually organized in alphabetical order..."
Added: 14 August 2007;
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- The Site Map: Gateway to Optimization
- By Mark Jackson, The ClickZ Network, Search Engine Watch, August 7, 2007. "The site map is a key component of effective search engine optimization. Ideally, this page is planned before site creation and goes live with the rest of the site. Once internal and external linking strategy has been implemented, we count on the site map as an insurance policy of sorts. The search engine spiders may or may not crawl and index all site pages via the main navigation and whatever internal linking we have put in place..."
Added: 7 August 2007;
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