Everybody knows what Sitemap is. Sitemap is basically list of all pages on one site that are available to user or robot crawler. There are two types of sitemaps. One is standard html view of all pages, which help your visitors (also search engines) to find your content pages
Other types of sitemaps are xml sitemaps (just for search engines). This sitemaps are introduced by Google so site developers can publish list of their site pages and with that help crawlers to find them and index them all.
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Many people think that onpage seo optimization is not important. They are wrong. Onpage seo is very important, maybe not as offpage seo, but defiantly close.
What you need to watch when doing onpage seo optimization? I usually watch on things bellow. They are not mentioned by the priority, I always do them all.
Keywords. You can’t aim to be on first position on Google if you don’t have any targeted keyword mentioned on your site. You need to have keywords in your meta tags, title, then h1, h2 tags… Don’t bother yourself with keyword density. Just read the text aloud and until it gets awkward you don’t have too much keywords. (more…)
After showing my contest entry to my girlfriend, she noticed somewhere on the page term SERP. I know you all know what SERP is, but there are plenty of other webmasters that maybe don’t.
SERP is acronym for term Search Engine Results Page. Some people wrongly refer, as Search Engine Result Position. It is basically search results page returned to you by the search engine, for given term (red colored area on the image bellow). Given results page can contain other elements such as sponsored listing (in our given case from google.com, we can see adwords listings in the blue area, above the SERP results). Many search engines cache their results for better performance. SERP refreshing can take significant amount of times, in some cases it needs to pass few days or even few weeks before SERP is refreshed, so don’t worry if you don’t see any fast changes.
How these SERPs are generated?
They are generated according to relevance and page worth in search engine eyes. Algorithms for determining page relevancy are almost always well kept secret. But if you stick with this formula you can’t fail:
Good original content + healthy and good links = Good position.
This means that you need to write content for people, not search engines. Good original content will give you visitors, visitors will spread word about you and they will help you to get healthy and good links. Bunch of links will mean that people talk about you, and that will give you worth and authority in the search engine eyes.
