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Introducing Rich Snippets. Webmaster Level: All As a webmaster, you have a unique understanding of your web pages and the content they represent.

Introducing Rich Snippets

Google helps users find your page by showing them a small sample of that content -- the "snippet. " We use a variety of techniques to create these snippets and give users relevant information about what they'll find when they click through to visit your site. Today, we're announcing Rich Snippets, a new presentation of snippets that applies Google's algorithms to highlight structured data embedded in web pages. Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search results at a glance. To display Rich Snippets, Google looks for markup formats (microformats and RDFa) that you can easily add to your own web pages.

And now with microformats markup: or alternatively, use RDFa markup. To prepare your site for Rich Snippets and other benefits of structured data on the web, please see our documentation on structured data annotations. Directory of SEO articles,free seo tools and seo techniques. Pagerank Explained. Google's PageRank and how to make the most o. And how to make the most of it by Phil Craven What is PageRank?

Pagerank Explained. Google's PageRank and how to make the most o

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. From here on in, we'll occasionally refer to PageRank as "PR". Notes: Not all links are counted by Google. How is PageRank calculated? To calculate the PageRank for a page, all of its inbound links are taken into account. PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn)) That's the equation that calculates a page's PageRank. In the equation 't1 - tn' are pages linking to page A, 'C' is the number of outbound links that a page has and 'd' is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85. We can think of it in a simpler way:- a page's PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a "share" of the PageRank of every page that links to it) Whichever scale Google uses, we can be sure of one thing.

SEO Tutorial (Navigation privée) Protocol (Navigation privée) Jump to: XML tag definitions Entity escaping Using Sitemap index files Other Sitemap formats Sitemap file location Validating your Sitemap Extending the Sitemaps protocol Informing search engine crawlers This document describes the XML schema for the Sitemap protocol.

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The Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded. The Sitemap must: Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset> tag. All other tags are optional. Also, all URLs in a Sitemap must be from a single host, such as www.example.com or store.example.com. Sample XML Sitemap The following example shows a Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional tags. <? Also see our example with multiple URLs. XML tag definitions The available XML tags are described below. Back to top Entity escaping Your Sitemap file must be UTF-8 encoded (you can generally do this when you save the file).

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