Sebuah tool yang akan memvalidasi opsional xml sitemap dan ping ke Google untuk memberitahukan lokasinya.

Sitemap xml validator kami akan memberitahu anda langsung jika ada masalah dengan peta situs Anda yang memungkinkan Anda untuk membuat perubahan sebelum mengirimkan ke Google.

Anda dapat juga secara opsional ping Search Engine dengan keberadaan sitemap anda. Didukung mesin pencari adalah:

* Google
* Yahoo
* Ask.com
* Moreover.com

Harap dicatat bahwa sitemap.com sendiri akan merekomendasikan Anda menginformasikan Google peta situs Anda melalui Google Webmaster Tools.

Klik di sini untuk validate sitemap xml

Silakan masukkan alamat http lengkap untuk sitemap anda, misalnya:http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml

Sitemap

Setelah membuat blog dan mendaftarkannya di search engine, agar blog kita bisa lebih populer adalah dengan membuat dan mendaftarkan Sitemap. Setelah kita tahu apa itu Sitemap, maka kita perlu segera mendaftarkan sitemap kita ke search engine, dalam hal ini Google dan Yahoo.
Kenapa google dan yahoo, silahkan baca artikel ini.

Cara daftar Sitemap berikut telah di modifikasi agar menjadi lebih optimal. Trik ini saya dapat sewaktu mengunjungi blognya Gadanama (salut!).

• Daftar pada Google

Langkah pertama adalah masuk ke account google anda, lalu ke webmaster tool atau klik disini dan login dengan account google. Maka kita akan dibawa ke halaman dashboard webmastertool, seperti gambar di bawah ini

Klik add (di lingkari merah) dan kita akan dibawa menuju halaman ini

Isi box yang ditunjukkan dengan tanda panah dengan sitemap kita :

1. atom.xml?redirect=false
2. atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
3. atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=100&max-results=200

Setiap kali mencantumkan satu sitemap klik submit sitemap.
Kenapa sampai 3 sitemap dan sebenarnya sama (dari atom), karena google secara default (sitemap no. 1) hanya akan mengindeks 25 post terakhir kita, jadi apabila kita punya post sampai 100 ada kemungkinan 75 post terakhir kita sudah tidak terindeks lagi. Maka perlu ditambahkan seperti pada no. 2 dan 3 agar terindeks sampai 200 post. Jika ingin lebih tinggal tambahkan sitemap baru dengan mengganti angka 100 dan 200.

• Daftar pada Yahoo

Silahkan ke Yahoo Site Explorer atau klik disini. Sign in dengan account yahoo kita. Kemudian klik Submit Site Feed.
Kita akan diminta untuk mengisi site feed kita. Nah silahkan gunakan sitemap seperti pada no.1 di atas dengan menambahkan alamat blog kita didepannya, seperti ini : http://namabloganda.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false

Selanjutnya silahkan tambahkan sitemap yang lain (seperti no. 2 dan 3).

These are Some of the Seo tips to  Keep your website Alive

1. Update Your Content Regularly- Write unique and fresh content related to your Business with targeted   keywords.

2. Update your  blog- minimum one post a week and submitting to blog directories

3. Add your website to Google local Business Center, Yahoo Local

3. Create your Sitemap and  submit to Google using  Google webmasters

4. When ever the website is updated with new content or new pages, create a new xml sitemap and resubmit to   google webmasters.

5.  Optimize images with alternative (ALT) attribute. Use image name with related keyword, Dont Stuff keywords, Use only one keyword for one image.

6. Use your Tageted keywords on  your Title,  Description and Url.

7. Use Synonymous of your keywords in the content.

8. Use your  Keywords as Hyper Links

9.  Implement Bread crumbs on your website

10. Check for broken links and Remove it immediately. If your broken link page is displaying on google search then you can remove the the Url  by  Sending Url removal request through Google webmasters.

Google webmasters> Site Configuration> Crawler Access > Remove Url

Los siguientes esquemas XML definen los elementos y atributos que pueden aparecer en tu archivo de Sitemap.
Puedes descargar este esquema desde los siguientes enlaces:

Para Sitemaps: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd
Para archivos de indice Sitemap: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd

Hay una serie de herramientas disponibles para ayudar a validar la estructura de tu Sitemap según este esquema.

puedes encontrar una lista de herramientas útiles para XML en cada una de las siguientes ubicaciones:

http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema#Tools
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/12/13/schematools.html

A fin de validar tu Sitemap o el archivo de índice de Sitemap en este esquema, el archivo XML necesitará cabeceras adicionales, como se muestra a continuación.

Sitemap:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
         xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <url>
      ...
   </url>
</urlset>

Sitemap index file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<sitemapindex xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd"
         xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <sitemap>
      ...
   </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Tip on “crawlability” for larger Web sites.

Google recommends that you have no more than 100 links on your site
map. If you have more than 100 pages on your site, set up mini site
maps for separate sections on your site and have a central site map
that links to your main sections and to those mini site maps.

Alternately, you could set up site map page #2 if you choose.

Now days search engine submission is important to get indexing your website pages. The role of search engine is to find your site their own. You want to submit your site to search engine then you submit site only once and shortly (some days) after this your site will goes live in search engine. The best sources to get indexing and to attract search engine spider then you must submit your site sitemap or XML sitemap. This sitemap submit to Google Webmaster Tools and your sitemap include address to it within your robots.txt file. For example your sitemap path is like that: http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml

Hope you get the importance of sitemap for your site. So you must add sitemap on website. Sitemap includes all pages links in one page means site map. Just try it and reply me…

Do you have a site map on your site?

In Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, they suggest that you use a sitemap, so set one up immediately! There are many excellent programs that will create site maps for you. Put a link to your site map on every single page of your site, and link to your other pages using link text that describes those pages.

Do you have a site map on your site?

In Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, they suggest that you use a sitemap, so set one up immediately! There are many excellent programs that will create site maps for you. Put a link to your site map on every single page of your site, and link to your other pages using link text that describes those pages.

Giới thiệu Google Sitemaps

Google Sitemaps là một công cụ cực hay của Google dành cho Webmaster trong phần công cụ Webmaster của máy tìm kiếm, vừa đơn giản vừa miễn phí giúp trang của bạn được Google khai thác tốt hơn. Hiểu được Google đánh giá thế nào về trang Web của bạn đồng thời trao đổi thông tin với máy tìm kiếm và làm cho cấu trúc trang của bạn rõ ràng hơn.

Google thấy gì trên trang của bạn và các vấn đề tiềm năng

Trước khi bắt tay vào việc cải thiện cấu trúc thêm rõ ràng bạn phải hiểu được bọ tìm kiếm của Google đã khai thác và đánh chỉ số trang của bạn như thế nào. Và Google Webmaster cung cấp cho bạn các thông tin Google khai thác trên site của bạn, nhận diện tệp tin ngoại trừ robots.txt, nội dung trang web của bạn.

Khai thác thế mạnh trên Website

Cũng trong phần công cụ Webmaster Google, hãng còn cung cập cho bạn các thông tin về lưu lượng :

• Các từ khóa được tìm kiếm nhiều nhất mà mang lại khách cho trang của bạn và giúp bạn có vị trí cao trong trang kết quả. Và bằng cách nào người dùng Web tiếp cận trang của bạn.
• Bạn cũng nắm bắt được thông tin về các trang đã được đánh chỉ số và các thống kê liên quan.

Tạo sơ đồ Web Sitemap cho Google

Nếu bạn sử dụng WordPress thì việc tạo Sitemap XML cho Google thật đơn giản vì, plugins Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress cung cấp cho bạn hầu hết các tính năng cần thiết. Bạn hãy tiến hành theo các bước sau :

• Tải Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress xuống và upload plugin sau khi giải nén vào thư mục wp-content/plugins.
• Tạo hai file sitemap.xml và sitemap.xml.gz tại ngay thư mục gốc của blog. CHMOD chúng dạng 777.
• Kích hoạt plugin trong bảng quản trị của WordPress
• Trong phần Options chọn Sitemap rồi nhấn “Rebuild Sitemap” –>Bạ đã hoàn thành cài đặt.

Nếu bạn sử dụng Joomla thì có rất nhiều Extension hỗ trợ việc làm google sitemap, các bạn có thể tìm tại đây

Nếu bạn sử dụng web bình thường ( ko phải các loại open source ) bạn có thể sử dụng: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com để hỗ trợ  làm sitemap cho website của bạn.

Giờ công việc còn lại chỉ là đăng ký sitemap.xml vừa tạo vào trong công cụ Webmaster Tools của Google. Bạn phải tạo một tài khoản Google để có thể sử dụng. Nếu bạn có rồi thì nhấn vào đây Google’s Webmaster Tools: Sitemap và làm theo chỉ dẫn (chọn add site).

Nếu bạn làm đúng theo các bước trên thì từ nay Google có thể tiếp cận cấu trúc sơ đồ Web của bạn một cách dễ dàng. Nó sẽ giúp cho việc trang Web của bạn được Google khai thác và đánh chỉ số tốt hơn. Tất cả các trang cho phép sẽ được Google biết tới và chắc chắn sẽ mang lại lưu lượng cho Website của bạn.

Ghi chú : Bạn không được nhầm lẫn hệ thống sitemap XML dành cho các máy tìm kiếm và hẹ thống sitemap HTML dành cho người dùng thường. Bạn có thể tham khảo bài viết Plugin cần thiết cho WordPress để biết thêm chi tiết (Phần Sitemap Generator).

Chỉnh sửa theo nguồn Vietseo.net

An XML sitemap is a feed to the search engine of where all the pages on your website reside. It includes information like, the address of your webpages, the date the pages were changed, and the importance of the pages related to other pages on your site. An XML sitemap is the best way for Google to index and crawl your site deeply. Every website owner that is committed to search engine optimization should have an XML sitemap on their website.

You can read more about XML sitemap protocol here – http://sitemap.org

If you’d like to have a sitemap generated for you, you can go here.

My recommendation would be to have your website on a content management system. Make sure that your content management system includes the ability to generate and XML sitemap for you. If the content management system cannot generate a sitemap, I would be suspicious about the system’s capability of producing a search engine friendly website.

We use Ubertor to host our website. It is designed for Real Estate Agents, but is flexible enough for small – medium size businesses and non-profits. If you are using WordPress for your website, be sure that you use this wordpress plugin to generate an XML sitemap.

It is becoming a well known fact that having a sitemap on your website is a good thing. Search engines like it because it helps add relevancy to a site. But mostly because crawlers can get lots of extra data making the engines aware of all your URLS, how often the pages are updated, and the pages importance in comparison to the other pages on your site. So this leads me to my next question:

Which sitemap format is better? XML or HTML?

I looked to the fabulous Official Google Webmaster’s Blog for the answer: XML

XML is more search engine friendly where as HTML is more people friendly. Crawlers are hungry for data, and XML gives more comprehensive URL and meta data (when it was last updated, how often changes are made, and how important it is relative to other URLs on your site). Google suggests having both HTML and XML sitemaps is good and you can have more than one format type and submit them without a penalty. There are various other formats available however be aware when submitting site maps to Google, a HTML site map is not a recognized format and will return an error message.

A Common Miss-conception:

Sitemaps do not increase the rankings of your pages.

Google advocates it can help get more of your site crawled by making the engine aware of all your URLS and helps Google prioritize the URLs on your site. Doing so “can lead to increased presence and visibility of your site” in Google’s index.

So the circular reasoning about sitemaps is that while having one doesn’t guarantee higher rankings; it may help search visibility …which can lead to greater search presence and hopefully more traffic …that presence and traffic is considered to mean you have relevant content and obviously a trusted authority on the subject…and thus a higher page rank could be decreed. I said “could” because how exactly Google ranks a page is highly confidential plus the page rank algorithms are constantly adjusted. We do know for certain the best practices to achieve optimum page ranking as advised by the master Google. And it’s best to follow those guidelines to give your page the best odds possible.

more on page rank to come.

First we created xml sitemaps to ensure that Google could see all of our pages.

Second, we began using Twitter (@glycotrainer). We set up and account on May 15th of this year, but we had never used it.

Today we secured a blog and created our first post. Our blog is at http://glycotrainer.blogspot.com/ and the first blog post was “Glyconutrients“.

Lastly, we set up accounts on many networking sites. Because we cannot develop all of them at the moment, we decided to be active on a select few. These are:
Delicious – Social bookmarking site where we let you know what we find most interesting on the web.

• Facebook – The most popular networking site on the web
• MySpace – One of the oldest networking sites on the web
• MSN Live – Popular networking site among MSN/Live Messenger users

We will be updating all sites simulatinously as new content is added to GlycoTrainer.com.

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We recently discussed the 15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have. This post focused on elements relating to design, content and development. This time, we’ll move onto the important issue of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

SEO is such a hot topic these days. How do you get your web site within the first page or two of the search engines? How do you increase your Google page rank?

There are companies who dedicate themselves full time to doing SEO at a pretty penny. Something a lot of people can’t necessarily afford to pay for or spend the time on.

However, there are some simple things you can do when building your site that will help increase your chances of having good results. In no particular order, below are 10 of these items…

1. Title Tag

Near the very top of a web site’s source code you’ll find various meta tags — the standard ones being the Title, Description and Keyword tags. The title tag is technically not a meta tag, though it is commonly associated with them. The title tag plays such a large role in the indexing of your web site, that it is considered the most important of the three.

A page title is the first thing a search engine will look at when determining just what the particular page is about. It is also the first thing potential visitors will see when looking at your search engine listing.

It’s important to include a keyword or two in the title tag — but don’t go overboard – you don’t want to do what’s known as “keyword stuffing” which does nothing but make your web site look like spam. Most people will include either the company name, or title of the particular page here, as well.

2. Meta Tags

There are two primary meta tags in terms of SEO — the description and the keyword tag. It’s debatable whether the search engines use the description tag as far as ranking your results. However it is one of the more important tags because it is listed in your search result — it is what users read when your link comes up and what makes them decide whether or not to click on your link.

Be sure to include a few relevant keywords in this tag, but don’t stuff it with keywords either. The description tag should read like a sentence — not a keyword list.

Due to “keyword stuffing” many search engines now completely disregard the keyword tag. It is no longer nearly as important as it was years ago, however it doesn’t hurt to include them in your source code.

When creating your keyword list, you’ll want to think of the specific terms people will type in when searching for a site like yours. Just don’t go overboard — too many duplicates are not a good thing (as in “web designer” “web designers” “custom web designer” “html web designer” “your state here web designer” – you get the idea). Those are all basically the same, so pick one or two variations at the most and move onto the next keyword.

3. Proper Use of Heading Tags

This is a very important element to consider when writing out your site copy. Use of heading tags helps users, web browsers and search engines alike know where the major key points of your copy are.

Your main page title should use the <h1> tag — this shows what your page is about. Use of additional tags, such as <h2> and <h3> are equally important by helping to break down your copy. For one, you’ll see a visual break in the text. But as far as the search engines are concerned, it will automatically know what your topics are on a page. The various heading tags give a priority to the content and help index your site properly.

4. Alt Attributes on Images

Putting alt attributes on your images actually serves two purposes. In terms of SEO, putting a brief yet descriptive alt attribute along with your image, places additional relevant text to your source code that the search engines can see when indexing your site. The more relevant text on your page the better chance you have of achieving higher search engine rankings.

In addition, including image alt attributes help the visually impaired who access web sites using a screen reader. They can’t see the image, but with a descriptive alt attribute, they will be able to know what your image is.

5. Title Attributes on Links

Including title attributes on links is another important step that any good web site will have. That’s the little “tool tip” that pops up when you place your mouse over a link. These are especially important for image links, but equally useful for text links.

As a note, you should use descriptive text for your links. “Click here” doesn’t really tell a person – or more importantly, the search engines — what the link is. At the very least put a title tag that will explain that “Click Here” really means “Web Design Portfolio” for example. Better yet – make the main link text something like “View my web design portfolio” — this will give some value to the link showing that the resulting page is relevant to searches for portfolio’s.

6. XML Sitemap

My last post referenced the sitemaps used by web visitors to help them navigate through your site themselves. However, there’s another version — XML sitemaps — that are used by the search engines in order to index through your site, as well.

This list of ALL pages / posts / etc. of your site also includes information such as the date the page was last modified, as well as a priority number of what you feel the most important pages of your sites are. All elements that help the search engines properly find and link to all content of your site.

7. Relevant Content

Having content relevant to your main page or site topic is perhaps the most important SEO aspect of a page. You can put all the keywords you want in the meta tags and alt image tags, etc — but if the actual readable text on the page is not relevant to the target keywords, it ends up basically being a futile attempt.

While it is important to include as many keywords in your page copy as possible, it is equally as important for it to read well and make sense. I’m sure we’ve all seen keyword stuffed pages written by SEO companies that honestly don’t make much sense from the reader’s point of view.

When creating your site copy, just write naturally, explaining whatever information you’re discussing. The key is to make it relevant, and to have it make sense to the reader. Even if you trick the search engines into thinking your page is great — when a potential customer arrives at the site and can’t make heads or tails of your information and it just feels spammy to them — you can bet they’ll be clicking on the next web site within a matter of seconds.

8. Link Building

We’ve probably all heard of Google Page Rank — it seems to be every web site owner’s dream to have as high a page rank as possible. While the algorithm for determining page rank encompasses many elements, and is constantly changing, one item is the number of links pointing to your web site.

Now, you’ll want to steer clear of link farms and other spammy attempts at getting links to your site. However there are many reputable and niche directory sites that you can use to submit your web site, or specific blog articles to.

With genuine content — especially if you have a blog — you’ll be able to generate links with other web sites and blogs, as well. It’s somewhat of a give and take, in that if you link out to other sites, you’ll find sites linking back to you  — and hopefully see your page rank going up, as well!

9. Social Media

Although technically not SEO, Social Media is such a growing factor in getting your web site noticed, that it’s an important element to include in your plan.

Social media ranges from social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn — to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon and many more. There is a lot of relationship building involved, but as you build your own networks and build quality content on your web site or blog, you’ll see traffic to your web site increasing, as well.

As with any relationship, it is a give and take. Don’t just expect to join a site like Twitter for the pure sake of pushing your content. That just won’t fly — your true intentions will stick out like a sore thumb and do nothing but turn people off.

Even if you are on the site purely for networking reasons, the key is to make friends. Help out members of your network if they ask for a “retweet” or Digg, give helpful advice if asked, etc. You’ll see the same in return.

If you write a great post and have built meaningful relationships with peers in your  niche, you’ll often find that friends will submit your posts and give you votes on the social bookmarking sites. The more votes you receive, the more likely your post is to be noticed by others and shared around, often resulting in additional link backs from other blogs, etc.

10. A Few SEO Don’ts — Flash and Splash

Along with any list of Do’s come the Don’ts. As far as SEO is concerned, two of these items are splash pages (often consisting of a flash animation) and all flash web sites.

Yes, flash is pretty! Full flash web sites can actually be amazing to look at — their own bit of interactive artwork. But unfortunately the search engines don’t get along well with Flash. Although there is talk of possible advancement in this area, for the most part the search engines cannot read Flash.

All that great content that you wrote for your site will not be seen by the search engines if it’s embedded into a Flash web site. As far as the search engines are concerned, your all flash web site might as well be invisible. And if the search engines can’t see your site content, a good chunk of potential customers will miss out on what you have to offer, too.

Equally as “pointless” are splash pages. Once very popular, the splash page should no longer be an important feature of any site. While splash pages used to serve as an introduction into a web site (often with a flash animation), it is no longer seen as helpful, and often times might actually annoy visitors.

For one — it’s an extra click to get into your content. Worse is when you don’t give a “skip intro” option or set of links into your main site content — because you’re essentially forcing your visitors to sit through the full animation. If you’re lucky, this will only annoy them… if not — they’ll just leave without giving your main web site a shot. And without an html link pointing into your site, the search engines have no way to continue either (unless you made use of a sitemap.xml file — but still…)

A good alternative to both issues is to make use of a flash header. There’s no problem to include a flash animation at the top of your main site, or as a feature within the content area, etc. Because this is an addition to your web site, as opposed to a full separate element.

Our SCSU Spring Comm 402 class just submitted the assignment due April 15: create a 20-25 screen site map for our product. Typically site maps are presented as flow charts and executed in an appropriate program like Microsoft Visio. I really love Visio’s “snap-to” connectors – but my heart belongs to Illustrator even though one should  use the right tool for the job.

Anyway, I decided to try a different approach – it could work in a pinch and all this took no time at all:

1. used Dreamweaver to define a new site and added pages, naming & then saving them
2. used shortcuts to create the new page and shortcuts to save the pages
3. created a quick text navigation bar on the home page
4. linked the text items  in the nav bar to the main content pages in the files panel using Dreamweaver’s point to link tool
5. saved the text navigation bar as a library item
6. dragged the navigation bar back to the main content pages and did a quick save so all the linking was already done
7. repeated this process to create additional pages/navigation bar for secondary content
8. used Dreamweaver’s site map view, expanded it, and took a screen shot
9. cropped,upsampled it and sharpened the map in Photoshop

Viola! A very down and dirty site map but if you know me, ahyper obsessed visual thinker. I then decided to redo the Map in Illustrator because I am simply just not a Microsoft fan unless really cornered. Granted my Illustrator joins were not perfectly mitered! The Dreamweaver site map could definitely serve as a strategic document/web site deliverable with a tad of doctoring.

However, site maps are used for more than planning and efficient repurposing/redesigning. I just received my monthly newsletter from internet marketing guru, Bruce Clay. I already knew that when the Google bot first comes to your server, it eagerly searches for the site map and uses the file as a guide to spider all the pages in your site. Bruce uses Google’s site map as a good usability example. Google is perfection in my book. Bruce provides a link to Google’s webmaster guidelines.

Putting information architecture & usability issues aside for the moment, the site map serves as a list of everything the spider needs to digest and index. Appropriate naming conventions are critical for this reason. Then, if your page titles, meta keywords, headers, and content support and inform the page naming, you are on your way to achieving a page one organic position and this is crucial for the internet marketer.

Bruce’s article gets a bit tricky and granular at this point. He competently draws the distinction between site maps and xml sitemaps. Bruce explains that Sitemaps are lists of links in XML, files read by Spiders and traditional html Site Maps could easily be used by humans to navigate a site.

I have found that many people are a bit confused about the difference between site maps and xml sitemaps. Recently, an internet marketing sales manager asked me to discuss/present the differences to his team who probably thought that anyone who found all this interesting and exciting was a bit __________. (fill in the blank)

The really cool/interesting thing is that the site maps and sitemaps (below)  are literally opposite sides of the same valuable coin.

XML sitemap code snippet

Here are some of the steps how can you increase your page rank.

1. Update Content : Update your  content regulary so that you can have unique  content on your site. Which gets you more and more visitors to your site, which indirectly increases your page views and so the page rank also.

2. Inside Linking : You need to provide inside linking in your website that is if you have any blogs in your site, so provide a link for previous blog and next blog when the user is viewing your blogs. Which keeps him more time on your site.

3. Create Sitemap : Create a XML sitemap and submit it to google and yahoo.  You can generate XML sitemap either manually or from some sitemap generator website. 

4. Linking with other Website : Have linking with other websites that is put their link on your website and put your link in their.  Which will help your visibility in search engine more.

© By Scott Van Achte (c) 2009

It’s no secret that a continually updated website with new content being added regularly stands a good chance of doing well in Google. One of the long standing methods to regularly expand a site’s content is through the use of a blog.

While there are numerous platforms to choose from for managing a blog, few can compare with the immense flexibility offered with WordPress, and at a cost of free, the price can’t be beat either.

Google likes fresh new content, and setting up a blog on your site, assuming it is updated often with interesting and relevant material, can be one of the best things you can do to help out your search rankings. The beauty behind WordPress is that there is a wide array of totally free plug-ins you can easily install that will make your blog totally search engine friendly.

The following are some basic guidelines and essential plug-ins you should consider when you install your WordPress blog.

Template Design

The first configuration you need to do is work on customizing the design template to match your existing site. I suggest finding a template that matches as closely as possible to the look you are going for then work on tweaking its graphics, colors, and other particulars till you achieve the desired appearance.

Most of your changes will occur in the header.php, footer.php, index.php, and page.php files in the theme editor, however, the theme you install will dictate which files actually need to be updated. You will also need to make some adjustments to your CSS file. These changes all involve working with code and graphics, and are most likely left to a professional.

Once you have your design set up, the rest of the customization is considerably less technical. The following are suggestions that most people can do themselves and you probably will not need an expert to help you here.

Settings

Permalinks
The next thing you need to do is customize your URL’s. You do not want the default post URLs ("pageid=#") as they are simply not search friendly and you want your default names to have some meaning to them. While you can customize your URL’s with various plug-ins, you may not always think to do this, so be sure to have a default you can live with.

Under the settings tab in your dashboard, click on permalinks. Here I suggest choosing one of the settings that includes the post name. Including the month and year is totally optional as it will have little to no impact on your search rankings, but you definitely do want to include the post name.

WWW or no WWW
With WordPress, there is no need to worry about the www vs no www redirects. It is handled for you, but you do need to select which variation you want, and it’s very simple to do. Under "General Settings" you will see two fields; one for "WordPress address" and the other, "Blog address". Ensure that both these fields include the "www" (or not), whichever you prefer, and that’s it. (I always recommend using the "www" version of your URL as most people linking into your site will use it, and this will help keep a consistency among your site.

Required Plug-ins

There is an almost endless supply of free plug-ins out there that you can add to your site ranging from photo galleries and spam protection, to social media integrators for Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and others. While many of these others will benefit your blog and search rankings, the XML Sitemap, and SEO plug-ins are truly essential.

SEO Plug-in
When setting up your new installation, the first plug-in you need to install is one that will allow for totally customized title, meta description tags, and page URL’s. There are a number of tools that do this ranging from the widely popular "All in One SEO Pack" to a relative newcomer "HeadSpace2".

While I personally have yet to try HeadSpace2, it is high on my list, as it has been recommended by many industry professionals as the best WordPress SEO plug-in. For any new blog installation I highly recommend this plug-in be installed right away.

XML Sitemap Plug-in
To the best of my knowledge, HeadSpace2 does not have an XML sitemap option, and as such I highly recommend "Google XML Sitemaps" . This plug-in will automatically generate XML sitemaps for you on the fly and submit it to Google every time you add, delete, or update a page or post. This helps ensure that Google has the latest information at all times. It’s a very simple plug-in to install and configure and once setup, you can forget about it and it will do the job for you.

A well optimized site loaded with relevant content can do very well in Google if setup correctly. The power of WordPress can make this process incredibly easy so all you have to worry about is writing those great articles and selling your customers. The plug-ins and functionality of WordPress are endless and when installed correctly can make the optimization of your blog considerably easier, increasing your chances for top rankings.

These are some of the Drupal Modules that can be of use.
1. Panels Panels allows the website administrator (or sometimes the end-user) to manipulate the layout of individual pages, sidebars, and content pieces, as well as easily dictate what content is displayed in the layout. This module allows you to create pages that are divided into areas of the page. The panels has completely flexible system that includes 2-column, 3-column layouts by default.
To download  http://drupal.org/project/panels

2. Views The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists of content are presented.
To download http://drupal.org/project/views

3. Pathauto The Pathauto module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias.
To download http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

4 TinyMCE TinyMCE adds what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) html editing to textareas.
To download http://drupal.org/project/tinymce

5. Flickr 1.The module provides a filter for inserting photos and photosets and allows the creation of blocks for rendering a user’s recent photos and photosets.
To download http://drupal.org/project/flickr

6. XML Sitemap XML Sitemap automatically creates a site map that conforms to the sitemaps.org specification. This helps search engines keep their search results up to date. XML sitemap allows us to submit the site map to the major search engines like Ask, Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live.
To download http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap

7. Meta tags This module allows you to set some meta tags for each node, view or panels page.
To download http://drupal.org/project/nodewords

8. Gallery This module embeds Gallery2 (http://gallery.menalto.com) inside your Drupal installation to support photos, videos and other content.
To download http://drupal.org/project/gallery

9. Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button Add to Any’s Share/Save widget helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your pages and stories using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. Services are updated automatically.
To download http://drupal.org/project/addtoany

10. CAPTCHA A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test most often placed within web forms to determine whether the user is human. The purpose of CAPTCHA is to block form submissions from spambots – automated scripts that harvest email address from publicly available web forms.
To download http://drupal.org/project/captcha

11. FAQ The Frequently Asked Questions (faq) module allows users with the ‘administer faq’ permission to create question and answer pairs which they want displayed on the ‘faq’ page. The ‘faq’ page is automatically generated from the FAQ nodes configured.
To download http://drupal.org/project/faq

12. Page Title The page title is the one found in the HTML head inside the tag.
To download http://drupal.org/project/page_title

13. Tell a Friend Module creates a “Tell a Friend” page that allows page viewers to send form e-mails about the site to their friends.
To download http://drupal.org/project/tellafriend

14. Kaltura [Video Module] The Module handles every aspect of video and rich-media functionalities, including transcoding, uploading and importing content, user management and permissions, hosting and streaming on Kaltura’s servers, and even collaborative editing and remixing of content – it’s simple to install, use and customize
To download http://drupal.org/project/kaltura

15. Content Construction Kit (CCK) The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to nodes using a web browser
To download http://drupal.org/project/cck

16. Token Tokens are small bits of text that can be placed into larger documents via simple placeholders, like %site-name or [user]. The Token module provides a central API for modules to use these tokens, and expose their own token values.
To download http://drupal.org/project/token

17. FeedBurner Integrates Drupal with the services provided by Google FeedBurner. Currently this module provides the means to redirect requests for your site’s feeds to user-specified/created FeedBurner feeds.
To download http://drupal.org/project/feedburner

18. jQuery Update This module facilitates an upgrade of jQuery in Drupal core and allows other contrib modules to rely on a newer jQuery version.
To downlaod http://drupal.org/project/Jquery_update

19. Localizer The Localizer module extends Drupal’s ability to handle human languages. It provides control over a site’s user interface language, the ability to enter and control content in multiple languages, and the ability to display the correct language content needed.
To download http://drupal.org/project/localizer

20. Internationalization Provides content translation -nodes and taxonomy-, interface translation for anonymous users -with the locale module- and browser language detection. Includes a block for language selection and manages translation relationships for nodes and taxonomy terms.
To download http://drupal.org/project/i18n

21. Backup and Migrate  Backup and Migrate simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your Drupal database or migrating data from one Drupal site to another. It supports gzip, bzip and zip compression as well as automatic scheduled backups.

To download http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

What is “Preview Before Visit” (PBV) features>
How create a “Preview Before Visit” for your website?

Good site map important not only for search engine but also for site visitors. Sitemap improve site navigation and help visitors find relevant page on your websites.
To improve navigation structure and usability of www.WCNY.org I created “Preview Before Visit” for WCNY’s sitemap page.

Now site visitor able to preview and read more information before click on the link and visit page. Since most of the WCNY’s pages visually attractive and include variety of features “Preview Before Visit” in most cases works as ‘call for the auction’.
Very good  articles about site map for your web site:
Types of Sitemap.
What is Preview Before Visit (PBV)?
How create a “Preview Before Visit” feature?
How to create a“Mouse Over screenshot viewer”?

For more on ’sitemap good practice’ and to find our ‘How to create Site Map and Preview Before Visit (PBV)?’ click here

Cualquiera de vosotros que tenga un blog debería saber lo importante que es tener un archivo que informe a Google los enlaces del contenido de vuestra web.A este archivo se le llama SiteMap, y suele tener formato XML.

Los CMS como WordPress ya incluyen extensiones para crear este archivo que podremos informar en nuestra cuenta de Google Webmaster, facilitando la tarea de búsqueda de información que realiza el motor del mismo.

El caso es que os presento hoy una herramienta que crea un archivo sitemap de vuestra web automáticamente. Sólo tenéis que informar la url y dejar que XMl-Sitemap haga el trabajo sucio.

La versión gratuita genera hasta 500 enlaces, dando las instrucciones necesarias para que tengáis el archivo guardado en el lugar correcto de vuestra web.

fuente: Wwwhat’s new? de Juan Diego Polo