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It's been a while since I've been writing about blog ranking. It was something I tried to understand more a year ago, when The web thought was newly born. Now, it is still a general interest for me - web site ranking and positioning is always important for a web developer. In any case, I would like to share some thoughts specifically about blog ranking and two tools which are often cited as very important and valuable: Technorati and Alexa.
Web development, web design and programming.
Showing posts with label Google Webmaster Central. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Webmaster Central. Show all posts
Monday, 8 August 2011
Monday, 6 June 2011
XML: build a sitemap for search engines
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A Sitemap is an XML file which contains all the information needed by search engines to crawl a web site, and eventually index it more efficiently. The XML file mainly contains URLs and additional information which can be used by search engines crawlers. If a Sitemap is not present in the root of a web site, the crawlers usually will follow the links inside a page and try to "discover" all the pages of the site. With a Sitemap, that process is done more efficiently, quickly and the web master is sure that all relevant pages are indeed analysed by search engines spiders. Sitemaps do not guarantee that a web site is indexed and ranked, however they help a lot the process.
There are many Sitemaps creator on the web, however I would like to explain how to build one yourself. As a side note, you should know that RSS feeds can be used as Sitemaps in tools like Google Webmaster, however it is better to use the Sitemap protocol to ensure that other web spiders understand the structure of your site.
A Sitemap is an XML file which contains all the information needed by search engines to crawl a web site, and eventually index it more efficiently. The XML file mainly contains URLs and additional information which can be used by search engines crawlers. If a Sitemap is not present in the root of a web site, the crawlers usually will follow the links inside a page and try to "discover" all the pages of the site. With a Sitemap, that process is done more efficiently, quickly and the web master is sure that all relevant pages are indeed analysed by search engines spiders. Sitemaps do not guarantee that a web site is indexed and ranked, however they help a lot the process.
There are many Sitemaps creator on the web, however I would like to explain how to build one yourself. As a side note, you should know that RSS feeds can be used as Sitemaps in tools like Google Webmaster, however it is better to use the Sitemap protocol to ensure that other web spiders understand the structure of your site.
Friday, 25 March 2011
Google Analytics
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I've been using Google Webmaster Tools for a long time, but just a few months ago I've started to have the feeling that it was not enough. What I wanted was something that could analyze my web site traffic source, visitors, search engines and so on, giving a clear idea on how my web site was performing. Thus I approached Google Analytics.
Friday, 30 July 2010
Google Blog Ranking... is it true?
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In the past I've used ranking technics for web sites. I've used procedures that could take the ranking very high, very quickly. But that was like playing with fire because after the initial burst, the site's ranking was always slowly going down, no matter what I was doing. Google improved its ranking methods and I think that there's no way fooling web spiders, now.
In the past I've used ranking technics for web sites. I've used procedures that could take the ranking very high, very quickly. But that was like playing with fire because after the initial burst, the site's ranking was always slowly going down, no matter what I was doing. Google improved its ranking methods and I think that there's no way fooling web spiders, now.
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