iTamer's Keywords

adsense auckland blog blogger bmx cms crime digitalpoint directory dmoz domains email forum forums fraud google googlebot html internet javascript joomla keywords kiwi link-vault London Mambo / Joomla mtb nbo New Zealand odp phishing php property-investment rss scam seo serps sitemap spam submission UK vbulletin viral-marketing wordpress xml

April 19, 2006

Guaranteed Google in 7 days

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

A common question in the forums is

I’ve had an email from a company saying they will guarantee my sites will be indexed by Google within 7 days. Is this a good deal?

that would be from a company saying things like

Based on our research, G-Submit ensures that the vast majority of web pages will be included in the main search engine results pages of Google within 7 days of service completion. And the good news is that G-Submit is totally within the guidelines of best practices set out by Google, so you won’t be penalized.

Bollocks! Ofcourse it’s within the guidelines, but should we pay for it? No Way!

More »

January 16, 2006

Google Sitemaps and Verification

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

It’s been a while since I checked back at the sitemaps pages to see how my sites were doing, they’d all been pinging happily and Google had been checking frequently so I’d been happy to leave them be.

I visited today and found that Google have added a verification process whereby you upload an empty html document onto your site, Google find it, accept that you are authorised to have access to the site and then feed you extra info from their databanks.

I can get this overview of whether Google has problems with the pages and how they are ranked - proving that Google still buy that PR matters.

Another page shows the queries where my site has been returned as an option (top 10?) and where my site has been selected by the user. This gives me good clues about optimisation and page building - and about the topics that people actually want to read about!

June 7, 2005

Sitemap generator for Xenu users

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development

I have written a simple Excel spreadsheet to convert Xenu information into a Google sitemap. More »

June 6, 2005

Dates on Google Sitemaps

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development, Search Engine Optimisation

A big problem Google is going to have with their new sitemap intiative is the honesty and credibility of the people generating them. More »

June 5, 2005

CMS developers - Google adds to the workload

Posted by Sarah King in Mambo / Joomla, PHP & Web Development

Now that Google has created Sitemaps it’s vital for anyone writing custom modules or components for Content Management Systems such as *nuke or Mambo to also write a function to output the sitemap entries for the pages generated. More »

Google Sitemaps - the end of the compromise?

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development, Search Engine Optimisation

Google has decided to use a sitemap concept (XML) to assist it to index files. This is a long overdue initiative to replace Freshbot, it’s original indexer. More »