Creating and submitting Sitemaps

from: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184 Creating and submitting Sitemaps About Sitemaps Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover. In its simplest terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap, with a capital S—is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's [ ... ]

Speaking the language of robots (How to make robots.txt)

Speaking the language of robots Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 1:27 PM Written by Sean Harding, Webmaster Tools Team We all know how friendly Googlebot is. And like all benevolent robots, he listens to us and respects our wishes about parts of our site that we don't want crawled. We can just give him a robots.txt file explaining what we want, and he'll happily comply. But what if you're intimidated by the idea of communicating directly with Googlebot? After all, not all of us are fluent in the language [ ... ]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

from: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291 SEO is an acronym for "search engine optimization" or "search engine optimizer." Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also risk damage to your site and reputation. Make sure to research the potential advantages as well as the damage that an irresponsible SEO can do to your site. Many SEOs and other agencies and consultants provide useful services [ ... ]

Google's SEO Starter Guide

from: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html Google's SEO Starter Guide Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 11:55 AM Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar [ ... ]

Moving a Blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org

from: http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/ Tools Moving a Blog Export, Import, Transfer Contents Moving Between WordPress.com Blogs Moving from WordPress.org Moving to WordPress.org Transferring Your Blog to Another User or Account Related Export Import On Your Mobile Turbo Moving Between WordPress.com Blogs Although you cannot change your current blog URL, you can simply register another WordPress.com blog under your existing user account and then transfer your content. First, [ ... ]

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) 101 – this articale is getting updated constantly

from: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/ Google Basics Print When you sit down at your computer and do a Google search, you're almost instantly presented with a list of results from all over the web. How does Google find web pages matching your query, and determine the order of search results? In the simplest terms, you could think of searching the web as looking in a very large book with an impressive index telling you exactly where everything is located. When you perform a Google search, [ ... ]

SEO Tips: Improve PageRank (Google PageRank Demystified…Sorta) Part 2

This article continues from SEO Tip: Improve PageRank (Google PageRank Demystified…Sorta) Part 1. As with any of our articles you should be aware of the disclaimer: Disclaimer: Chattanooga Search Marketing Blog features SEO tips for the benefit of our readers and clients in order for them to understand what we do and help them with their own SEO projects. As with any SEO technique, these techniques and tips are based on our experience and are our best opinions. Our opinion may change and this [ ... ]

SEO Tips: Improve PageRank (Google PageRank Demystified…Sorta) Part 1

(Disclaimer: Chattanooga Search Marketing Blog features SEO tips for the benefit of our readers and clients in order for them to understand what we do and help them with their own SEO projects. As with any SEO technique, these techniques and tips are based on our experience and are our best opinions. Our opinion may change and this tip may still exist.) When Google exploded in the search space in prehistoric times (1998), one of the concepts that made Google much better than the popular search engines [ ... ]

How to Avoid the Scam & Pick the Right SEO Company

I have written an article that is filed in the pages of this Web site offering up advice to Chattanooga business owners (and any other business owner) regarding picking a SEO company and a Web design company. I didn’t think the full article warranted a post in the Search Marketing Blog, because, there is no real SEO tip there, but is more intended for prospective clients. However, I did want to bring up a few highlights and point those interested over to the proper article for more details. As [ ... ]