This is really a two part question. The first bit is that a HTML sitemap is different to what Google, and Yahoo and Bing want from you. You need to create an XML sitemap for this purpose. The XML bit isn’t important, it is just the generally accepted format for this file. And don’t worry [...]
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The robots.txt file sits on your server at this address www.mysite.com/robots.txt and tells search engines what they are, and aren’t allowed to do on your website. A robots file was traditionally used my websites who didn’t want their pages appearing in a search index. With a robots.txt file you can speak to all robots or [...]
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Tagged: New Liberty, POP, robots.txt
NO! You can’t automate SEO – Google has some of the best computer scientists in the world and if they can’t come up with a completely automated way of ranking then no one else can come up an automated way of ranking higher. You just need to you good old fashioned hardwork – or you [...]
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Tagged: Pay on performance seo, POP, results based seo, SEO, software
The simple answer is yes. If you include the domain in the url then you stand a better chance of getting ranked for it. The more expanded answer is whether is the best place for the keyword. If you have a domain called mywebsite.com/1/2/3/4/5/keyword then you are very diluting the benefit on that keyword. The [...]
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Nofollow is a tag that some websites use to blog the transfer of quality from one website to another. The search engines use links to pass quality through. The basic logic is that if a high quality website is linking to another website then that other website will be quality as well. Nofollow blocks this [...]
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Question: What is .htaccess file and what is advantage of this file? Answer: The .htaccess file is the first page that your browser goes to when you visit a Linux website – you never see it but it sits on the http server. 90% of the websites in the world run on Linux servers (an [...]
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Tagged: htaccess file, pay for performance seo, seo benefit