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A quick search on Google for advice on creating a site map initially threw up many links to software you could buy or download for free to create a site map.   But why do you need a site map?   Basically as websites get larger and more complex both the human browser and the search engine spiders need an easy to follow map to find all the pages within your site. A site map gives them a simple navigational tool.   Site maps have 3 main benefits: 1) A site map allows visitors to easily find what they are looking for by simply visiting your site map and clicking on the link to go directly to the page they want to visit. 2) Often technologies employed to assist in reading webpages such as web page readers and screen readers can only follow text links. For practical reasons it may not always be possible to show a text link to every other page within your site on your main page and other pages within your website and so use a site map. 3) Search engine spiders li...

    Does it seem like no matter what you do your website just won't climb up in the search engine rankings? If so, your web site may not be optimized well enough for the search engines to increase your rankings. There are some very important factors that determine where web sites are ranked. These factors are referred to as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and they can make all the difference in your site's rankings. Here are some of the most important factors that the search engines use in determining your rankings:   1. Web Site Content  Content on your site is one of the most important factors for successful search engine optimization. Your web site should provide valuable information on specific subjects relevant to your web site. Furthermore, your content should be updated regularly. It's not enough to just put up a few content pages full of information on your site and then never add to it. This is a continuous process that will help your ...

SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimizing and refers to a set of good practices that teach you how to improve your website so that it would be easily tracked, indexed, and ranked by search engines. Getting your site indexed by Google and other major search engines will help you attract visitors and increase traffic.   It is the process of increasing the number of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user. It is common practice for Internet users to not click through pages and pages of search results, so where a site ranks in a search is essential for directing more traffic toward the site.   SEO helps to ensure that a site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that the site will be found by the search engine.   Basic SEO Tips:   1. Insert keywords within the title tag ...

In today's internet information age your online presence is not only sufficient to make profit. If you want to achieve online success your businesses need continuous promotion. Article submission refers to the submission of articles to the article directories to get hyperlinks from websites that want to publish your content. It makes your website content-rich as well as bringing backlinks for you. Article Submission can be used to catapult your website to higher rankings in the search engines. The most striking feature about article submission is free, simple, and easy for even a novice. One should need not to be an SEO expert for the article submission process. The process is so simple and least time consuming that any unprofessional can do it with negligible efforts. There are hundreds of articles directories publishing articles online and are either paid or free of cost. Online article submission sites are an interesting business model in this Internet Information Age to ach...

Blogs can be a very marketable and very profitable tool if used correctly. Profiting from blogs is just a matter of grabbing the attention of an audience and not doing any actual salesmen selling. In this article, you will learn the 13 most essential steps to successful blogging.   1) Where to start?   You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such as Journal Home. I don't say that because I'm the owner, but a free blog host is very rewarding for a new blog.   Starting with a free blog hosting service allows you to begin blogging instantly without having any advance knowledge of scripts, hosting, or programming. It allows you to build an audience and buzz for your blog.   It allows you to focus on your content and not the internal maintenance of the blog. The best benefit of starting with a free service, is in the case your blog doesn't become successful you do not lose any money or are you left holding the bill. The great thing about a blog...

  There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal WebPages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, the ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings, and trackbacks. All these little things can help drive more traffic to blogs. Here are 15 popular techniques you can use:   1.) Create at least four keyword posts per day. Most of the top blogs such as Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and Instapundit (with literally tens of thousands of visitors per day) publish an average of 30 small 100-150 word posts per day according to "Secrets of the A-list Bloggers: Lots of Short Posts" by http://TNL.net   2.) Submit to My Yahoo! When you submit your own RSS to My Yahoo it is indexed by Yahoo.   3.) Submit to Google's Reader. When you submit your own blog RSS to Google's Reader the Google Blog Search will index your site.   4.) Add a relevant link directory to your blog and trade links. Although it may take more time th...