Guaranteed Google in 7 days
April 19th, 2006 by Sarah KingA 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! Read the rest of this entry »
Google Sitemaps and Verification
January 16th, 2006 by Sarah KingIt’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!
Sitemap generator for Xenu users
June 7th, 2005 by Sarah KingI have written a simple Excel spreadsheet to convert Xenu information into a Google sitemap. Read the rest of this entry »
Dates on Google Sitemaps
June 6th, 2005 by Sarah KingA big problem Google is going to have with their new sitemap intiative is the honesty and credibility of the people generating them. Read the rest of this entry »
CMS developers – Google adds to the workload
June 5th, 2005 by Sarah KingNow 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Sitemaps – the end of the compromise?
June 5th, 2005 by Sarah KingGoogle 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. Read the rest of this entry »
