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Showing posts with label Search Engines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search Engines. Show all posts


Want to know how search engines process URLs and Domain names?. Here is a video from Nathan Buggia from the Live Search Webmaster Center.

URLs and Domains (SMX East 2008)
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: seo sem)

 

Here is a great video from Matt Cutts that outlines the steps to remove your URL from the Google Search Engine by using Google Webmaster tools and some other methods.



Matt Cutts Discusses Webmaster Tools

 

From Google AdWords Blog:

"Did you know that 20% of the queries Google receives each day are ones we haven’t seen in at least 90 days, if at all? With that kind of unpredictable search behavior, it's extremely difficult to create a keyword list that covers all relevant queries using only exact match."

 

The Robots.txt file on your website tells search engines how you want them to crawl. Specially which directory or files you don't wan't appearing in the SERPs.

For DNN we should pay special attention to this because you will often see DNN's supporting directories show up in search results.

The easiest way to avoid this by taking this sample Robots.txt file that DotNetNuke.com provides and build your way up from there.

You could use Google's Robots.txt tool to check your Robots.txt file to make sure that all your Ducks are in a row.

 

Before you go ahead and submit your website to the major search search engines make sure you have all (or most) of your SEO tactics in place. Why? because there is no second first impression. After google indexes your page for the first time it will evaluate when to do it again, if it finds that your site is not "worthy" then it might take weeks or months for it to go and crawil it again.

So make sure you have your Page Titles, Meta Tags, Search Friendly URLs and other SEO Tactics in place before you submit.