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The search engines allow you to submit one URL at a time or all together in an XML Sitemap. Submission straight to Google and Yahoo without a Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Site Explorer account can be done at http://www.google.com/addurl or at http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html. Your other option is by XML Sitemap but you must sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! Site Explorer a… Continue

Bounce rate is a term coined by Google that identifies the percentage of people that abandon a Web page after navigating to that page. A high bounce rate suggests that the user is not finding what they are looking for or found what they are looking for and moving on to other websites, this depends on whether the conversion goal has been completed. A webmaster can view their bounce rate in Google Analytics and compare the bounce rate to other Web pag… Continue

Robots.txt is a Web page on your site that offers instructions to the search engine spider how to crawl your website, what sections to allow or disallow. The Robots.txt can also be used to block your website completely from one or all search spiders. You have the ability to identify protocol for a unique spider or all spiders. User-agent: Googlebot 2.1 Disallow: /cgi-bin/ XML Sitemap Webmasters have the ability to identify the location of the website’s XML sitemap located on the webmas… Continue

If you have a blog, articles, press releases, individual video Web pages, FAQs, or any Web pages with content that you want to distribute throughout the Internet and not satisfied with Google and Yahoo, Blog aggregates are a great way to desiminate information to the Internet. Blog aggregates are similar to search engines and collect Web pages and content in a database. Then offer results based on popularity and search queries. In essence, a blog aggregate is a third tier search engine or niche… Continue

The search engines get content to rank in organic search from multiple venues. The majority of content is crawled by the search engine spider and indexed in the search engine database. This crawled content is then labeled by tags, categories, and hundreds of other variables ready to be served in search engine results on demand. The search engine spider also receives content directly from website owners through XML sitemaps. A webmaster can compile an XML sitemap and submit it directly to the se… Continue