Sitemap Auto Discovery

If you think you need to make a sitemap and submit it to all major search engines to tell them about your website, then there a shocking news for you all.

Now all major search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo etc. announced support of “autodiscovery” for sitemaps. Now you just need to specify the location of your sitemap in robots.txt file and search engines will find it automatically.

Following is syntax to use it in robots.txt:

Sitemap: (URL of the sitemap)

Add above line (with exact location of sitemap) to robots.txt.

But presently not all search engines support autodiscovery for sitemaps, but soon all search engines will start supporting it.

Free Website Hosting Not For SEO

Selecting a good website host provider is the foundation block for your online business, so it should be strong.

Search engine bot/crawlers don't give any importance to sites with free host. So if you are thinking for implementing SEO (Search engine optimization) on your website then big NO to free web hosting providers.

Free Website hosting has some disadvantages, when it comes to search engine optimization. See Below:

• Sub-Domain or Split Domain Names - Free website hosting providers usually offer you site with sub domain (split domain) name. So it is not good SEO practice to have a sub domain on your website. Another big disadvantage of having a sub-domain is that many URL submission providers don't accept sites with sub-domain or split domain pages.
• Banner and Pop-up Ads - Search engine spirders (bots or crawlers) hate pop-up Ads that free hosting providers always offer. Most of search engines don't read pages with such banner or pop-up ads.
• Low Bandwidth - In free web hosting you will get a limited disk space and band width which is again a major drawback.

So it is very important to Choose Reliable and Secure Website Hosting Service Provider.

Social Bookmarking - A Powerful Internet Marketing Strategy

We all know back links to a website is always beneficial and a most effective way to get high search engine rankings. Bookmarking your content on popular social bookmarking websites to gain back links. But keep track on because some bookmarking sites give link with "nofollow" attributes.

When we add our link to these social bookmarking websites every time we get a back link. So it is suggested to bookmark your updated content in popular social bookmarking websites to get more and more back links. Be sure to make your personal bookmarks public so that search engines and people can access them easily. There are some social bookmarking websites that are with nofollow or using redirected dynamic links, but still it is useful because human eyes can use these links to visit your website.

There are some online tools for automated social bookmarking such as socialmarker, socialposter and many more. So get your website/blog listed in most popular social bookmarking websites to get high rankings and traffic.

SEO Friendly Searchable Flash

In past, search engines were not able to read content (text, links) from flash (.swf) files, which caused frustration for web developers and flash web designers. Web designers faced challages to develop or design a flash based website. They need to do lots of hard work to make flash content available to search engines in any other way. But now scenario is changed search engines are now able to extract content from flash files.

According to Google and Adobe, now google's new flash indexing algorithm is able to read content in flash files i.e., text and links to give more visibility to flash content. Adobe has worked to make flash content searchable by Google and Yahoo.

Google's imporved flash indexing algorithm is presently able to index textual content and links from all kinds flash (.SWF) files like flash banners, flash menus etc. but there are some limitations like Google's new flash indexing algorithm is not able to extract content from non-textual (images, buttons) components in a flash file.

Some other limitations to index flash files are:

• Google is not able to read flash file if your flash file is loaded via JavaScript.
• Google is not able to read external content loaded in flash files during execution like some html, xml content from external resources.
• Google is unable to read content written in Hebrew language or Arabic language in flash files.

So now web designers and developers are need not to worry about their flash content