search engine optimization: Google Sitemaps is now Google Webmaster Central!
- 08/18/06 05:27 PM
I just stumbled across this while reading Matt Cutts blog (Matt Cutts is an engineer at Google, and his blog is an amazing resource on Google and search engine optimization/ranking). Google has beefed up Sitemaps with it's new Webmaster Central. It's wicked cool. It has a site status checker, a Google Blog For Webmasters, a discussion grop and webmaster tools. Through the use of a Google SiteMap, you can view ALL KINDS of cool stats--search terms, rankings, and more. Webmaster Central is a MUST READ if you are wanting more info on how to get your site to rank well in Google. WARNING: (11 comments)
search engine optimization: SEO for Real Estate
- 07/16/06 04:29 AM
"SEO" (Search Engine Optimization) -- you could spend a lifetime trying to figure it out. And about the time you get it figured out, Google and whoever will up and change things. There's reciprocal links, back links, one-way links, natural links, link farms (a *really* bad idea). Flash vs. CSS vs PHP vs HTML. To JavaScript or not? Then there's new stuff like Ajax. There is keyword density and when and where to use <H1> - <H4> tags. If all this sounds like a foreign language, you are not alone. Unless you want to pay for traffic via PPC (Pay Per Click), (5 comments)