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Friday, September 14, 2012

HOW TO DRIVE SEARCH ENGINES TO YOUR BLOG / SITE


Congratulations if your website is indexed in the search engines! Maybe you have submitted your address list to search engines manually, or have taken advantage of free submitter service such as http://www.submitexpress.com/.

However, the website which has been indexed in the search engines is not enough. You have to try harder so that your web pages can be indexed as much as possible and each get a good position in search engine result pages.

There is a good technique (and thus free) that you can use for your website to optimize the performance. This technique is to leads popular search engines to your web pages. Don’t wait too long to make search engine kindly browse through your web pages. Now it's time you were handed a list of tasks to search engines.

As a bonus, these techniques can be a powerful trick if your website is not indexed in Google, guaranteed less than a week your website will be indexed!

Here we go ;

First, always know the types of files that must be handed to the search engine:

- Urllist.txt (and file compression urllist.txt.gz): List of URLs to lead Yahoo! search engine.
                                                                                                                                                        
- Sitemap.html: List of URLs to present to your visitors and to back them up to the other search engines.

- Ror.xml: List of URLs to be exchanged via syndication / RSS Feed.

- Sitemap.xml (and file compression sitemap.xml.gz): List of URLs of which you’ll handed over to Google search engine later on.

Second, prepare a list of URL of all of your web pages. No need to panic if you do not know how to create an XML file, do not despair if you have hundreds of web pages which should be recorded. You can use some tool to make the files mentioned above. You can try the online service of making a list of URLs file such as  http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/, or install the software for this purpose, for example GSiteCrawler (http://gsitecrawler.com/).

Third, after you have a number of URLs file formats, now upload them all to your web hosting. Put those files into the main directory (for example in public_html). These files will be referred first by search engine bots when they visit your website (according to the file format).

The last stage, specifically for Google search engine, you can be more aggressive in bringing the list of URLs (sitemap.xml). You can do this by using Google Webmaster Tools. Log in to the service using your Gmail account ID. Fill your website data, verify the website as exemplified in there, then submit sitemap.xml file that you already have. Do not forget, use Webmaster Tools features there to monitor the performance of your website.

With similar technical, you can also handed a list of URLs (sitemap.xml) to MSN Live Webmaster Tools.

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