SEO Advice

I recently launched a new web site that had pre-existing blog software installed on it, similar to this site. After launching this new web site, I noticed Google wasn’t deep spidering the site and after a week, hadn’t indexed any pages other than the home page. My first instinct was that I needed more backlinks pointing to the web site to force Google to do some extensive spidering of the web site. Then I remembered, isn’t this what Sitemaps are for? Read the rest of this entry »

This tip helps usability for humans and search engine spiders alike: make sure that every web page is no more than 2 clicks deep in your web site. By that I mean, a web page should never be more than two clicks away from every other web page on your web site. This is usually the case for most web sites because they will have a consistent footer with main links and one of those links will be to the site map which has a link to every single page.

Yahoo and MSN are now officially supporting the Sitemap XML protocol joining Google who originally released the protocol under the Alike Creative Commons License in hopes that other search engines would adopt it. Sitemaps is a free and easy way for webmasters and site owners to inform search engines about every URL in their web site and which ones they want crawled or spidered.