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Setting preferred domain name in Google indexing
Saturday, August 19, 2006
-- In addition to my earlier posting: 'How to fix indexing www and non-www versions of domain' --
You can now tell to google for crawling your preferred domain. This is by adding your site to google sitemaps account (https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login). Then click the 'preferred domain' link to set yor favourite link. Once you set your preferred domain, Google will use that information for their future site indexing.
They also specified in their official blog that if you set your favorite domain as http://www.yourdomain.com and they find a link to that site formatted as http://yourdomain.com, they follow that link as http://www.yourdomain.com insted. Also your favorite link is displayed in the future search results pages. This way you can attain your PageRank more accurately.
10 web design tips to get your website noticed by spiders
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Many web designers do not pay attention in coding structure, the result is no one can find those websites in search engines!. In many cases search engine spiders cannot crawl 100% of those sites, this is because of huge size, html code error, navigation problem due to using scripts. By following these ten tips while designing and developing your website, you can improve your web presence.
1) Table structure: Nested tables can cause the huge page size and it could be problem with download times. Use separate tables wherever possible. Rather than using tables, use CSS to format your page layouts.
2) Page size: small web pages load faster. Make your page size to below 50K, so that search engine spiders can able to crawl your entire website without having any time delay.
3) Frames: Do not use Frames. Some search engines not even supported frames and it could be some display/alignment problem with some browsers. It could also affect while bookmarking a page. Remember, whatever you are trying to accomplish by using frames can usually be done with CSS.
4) Alt tags: Minimize the use of graphics and Flash. If your site having graphics try to explain those by adding ALT text. Since search engine spiders cannot read text within images, you should provide alternative text, so that spiders can understands what they mean.
5) Navigation: Each pages on your website should be easily connected. Use of JavaScript links and image maps may affect spidering your entire site or you should use text links at the bottom of your page to help search engine spiders to navigate each pages. Try to check your web pages in a text only browser and ensure you can easily navigate all the pages from page to page.
6) Title and Meta tags: Add title and Meta tags to each pages in your site and all title tags and Meta tags should be unique.
7) Sitemap: Provide a sitemap that linked from your homepage. It must be essential if your site having dynamic pages, that contains special characters such as ?,%,&,# etc. As these pages are generated automatically, search engines spiders cannot follow these links.
8) HTML codes: Internet explorer can display your page even if any minor errors in the html code, but it could be a major problem with search engine spiders. I recommend validating your html codes through some online tools that available in the net. By getting W3C standards can give your web pages greater visibility in web searches.
9) Cascading Style Sheets: CSS enables you to independently control the structure of your web page. By using CSS, you will get its benefits like smaller file sizes, browser compatibility and search engine friendly.
10) External CSS/JavaScript files: Call all your JavaScript and CSS from external file, so that spiders can easily access your data without causing any error.
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How to fix indexing www and non-www versions of domain
Friday, August 11, 2006
Google may index both versions of your domain (eg: http://www.yourdomain.com and http://yourdomain.com)
This is because of links to your website (both internal and external) using www and non-www version of URL. In this case, if you have twenty site's linking to you in different versions of your URL, you may not get the full benefit of those twenty links because the rank value may be divided between these two versions.
Best solution to fix this is and safest way to preserve your rank is setting up 301 redirection from bad version to the original version. Apache server can do this by placing the following code in .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=permanent]
Remember you don't submit remove url form on google to remove the bad version of your URLs.
Want more help on redirection? follow this link:
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml
Domain age factor in Google ranking
Monday, August 07, 2006
As we know that Google has taken several aspects for evaluating the PageRank of websites. Domain History is one of the off-page factors that Google considers.
Domain history includes:
Age of a domain: How long you have owned the website.
Life of a domain: The length of period that your website registered. Make sure to register your domain name for a long period.
Domain DNS: Domain name server (DNS) that your domain is currently using? that means Google dislike frequent changes of server and domain ownership.
Please note that these are not the only criteria that Google taken for evaluating your website's PageRank. If you are in the activity of increasing your website page rank, it is good to analyze the age of website that you are going to submit or link exchange.
Check the following online tool, that can give domain age of a website:
http://www.perfect-optimization.com/domain-age-checker.php
Relative or absolute paths to use in your page?
Thursday, August 03, 2006
There are three types of paths usually used to link files and objects.
1) Site root relative (eg: /news/today.html)
2) Document relative (eg: ../news/today.html)
3) Absolute (eg: "http://www.anotherwebsite.com/item/item.html")
Site root relative paths start with slash that identifies the root of site. Document relative paths describe the location of file in relation to another file on the same server. Absolute path contains URL of the item being referenced.
Even if google doesn't rank above paths differently, I recommend to follow site root relative paths in your internal links and absolute paths for external file links. By using these two paths, you can ensure none of your links are broken and can avoid confusion to GoogleBot.
Additional details about paths:
1) Document-relative, site root-relative and absolute paths
2) Site Root Relative - Why?
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