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Keyword Research For Optimization. Sorry, you are not logged in. Please login to get full access to this page or register if you're not registered yet. Firstly, I needn′t be too smart to know for sure: You′ve got your website You′re strongly determined to gain in popularity, build up a community, make money, etc. Right in front of you, you have a great guide telling you how to do that That′s quite enough for a good SEO start.

And, here′s what you′ll find in this chapter: Getting straight to the point, your first step is keyword research. Never ever overlook this spadework. Now come on, let′s make a flying start! 1.1 What? The first thing you have to know is: No keyword research — no SEO. Why? And, trying to promote a website without having the right keywords brings no results. It′s like trying to find a buried treasure without knowing where exactly it′s hidden. Now what′s the bright side of it? So what′s a keyword for SEO? This is a word people will type in Google, Yahoo! Before I give you my example, meet my son Mike. Generating Simple URLs For Search Engine Robots: SearchTools Report. ROR Structured Feeds Making Tool - So SEs Can Understand Your Content. Sitemaps. The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling.

A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol. Sitemaps are particularly beneficial on websites where: Search Engine Indexing Sitemaps supplement and do not replace the existing crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. Google - Webmaster Support on Sitemaps: "Google doesn't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs.

History[edit] Google first introduced Sitemaps 0.84 in June 2005 so web developers could publish lists of links from across their sites. File format[edit] <? Text file[edit] Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress. This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. More information about what XML-Sitemaps are and how they can help you to get indexed by the major search engines can be found at Sitemaps.org and the searchenginewatch blog. If you have questions about XML-Sitemaps or run into problems, have a look at my Sitemaps FAQ. Note: The XML-Sitemap format was introduced in 2005 by Google and adopted in 2006 by YAHOO, Live and Ask.com so that’s why it’s often called "Google Sitemaps". Download | Installation | Help & FAQ | Changelog | Donate Problems with your sitemap? Features: Download (includes all languages): Download new version with dynamic sub-sitemaps Download older version with single static sitemap See here for an explanation about single and sub-sitemaps.

Pricing and Licensing: Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Notify List: Installation: Suggest a feature: Example of a generated sitemap: