What is site map?creating site map, using site map.

What is site map?

A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or
users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web
design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in
hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.
While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to
relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate
both as one and the same. However, a site index is often used to mean an A-Z index that
provides access to particular content, while a site map provides a general top-down view of
the overall site contents.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_map

How to create a sitemap?

There are many ways to create sitemap. You can create sitemap with your all the link
of your web page. Without these XML Sitemaps is one of the best sitemap generator
after submitting your web link you can get site map. those who are using various cms
such as : word press or joomla for them many plugin. For word press Google XML Sitemaps
& joomla Xmap you can use. Free blog such as blogger or word press who are using they
have no problem to create site map. They can use RSS Feed as sitemap. Atom.xml is for free
blogger http://yourblog.wordpress.com/feed/ for word press blog instead of site map.

How to use site map?

There are many tools for web master for google Webmaster Tools for Yahoo! Yahoo!
Site Explorer for Microsoft Bing Webmaster Center.

Now the xml file is uploaded by you. Blogger and wordpress users to do nothing.

Login to Webmaster Tools press add a site and give the link of your webpage.
Google give you a Meta tag that you have put on your web template.


Next click add a site map button then submit your site map.

6 Easy Tips for Onpage Search Engine Optimization

1. Keywords positioning
I always try to use Google’s Keyword Tool, Google Trend to search what other people are searching related to my content. Then write my content using those keywords. Some people just try to over populate keywords. I believe 6%-10% keywords in content in enough for search engines to find your website from thousands of website around the world.

2. Title Tags
Title tag is very important. Title should not be too long. For Google, 70 characters are enough for SERP. Keywords should be place in a natural way. Repetitions look is odd to see when web pages come on SERP. Descriptive titles have maximum clickthoughs.

3. Internal Linking
Internal linking is very important. The more links are spread, the more Page Rank is distributed between the pages. Spiders are very frequents to different pages and can dig very deep.

4. Meta Description Tags
Meta description is another important for on-page SEO. Google only consider 155 characters from Meta description. So it’s important to write a unique Meta description within 155 characters using keywords.

5. Use Images and ALT tags
Images make articles and pages attractive to visitors. More over images are also indexed different search engines. Using relevant keywords in the image alt tags help in SERP.

6. Sitemap submission
Sitemap help visitors to navigate between pages and also helps search engine bot to index very easily. I personally submit sitemap to Google Sitemap and Yahoo! Site Explorer regularly. To generate XML sitemap, I use XML Sitemaps or VIGOS Gsitemap. For Wordpress websites, I use Google XML Sitemaps plugin

SEO and Social Bookmarking

If you look around the internet at some Blogs, you will see a button saying something like "Digg this" or "Delic.io.us" etc. These are shortcuts to some of the 46 plus "Social Book Marking" sites that have sprung up all over the internet. If you have ever wondered what those are or why they are there read on.

What a Social Bookmarking site is about is telling other members what you have seen, liked and why you liked it, on the internet. They are extremely popular right now, so they are a SEO dream.

If you draw the attention of the community, enormous traffic will be sent to your site. even if you don't you will come across the few that will like what you have and poke around your website. The bookmarks can be categorized in virtually any topic, so you wont be sending people looking for something totally unrelated to your site.

I have mentioned in prior articles the importance of building links to your site. Each post on these Social Bookmarking sites counts as a link to you. As I said there are over forty of these sites, so you could literally put forty links to everything on your site if you had the time to visit them all, but who does?

I have come across a very cool little tool, and yes it is free, to help with all of this. There is a site called "SocialMarker" that will allow you to post to ALL of them in an almost automatic way. You simply select which Social Book Marking sites to submit to from a list. You can pick and choose, with various types of sorting, from the most popular, to those that do follow, or just one or two you want to use.

I am not talking about spamming, I hate spamming. I am talking about semi-automating what you are doing. You will still have to enter the codes to prove you are human, and work through some quirks on each site, but instead of spending hours going from site to site you are brought to each site's submit section with the fields usually pre-filled for you.

If you are not a member of the sites you will need to become a member, which will take some time just filling in the forms and replying to the confirmation emails, but once you do that you are done.

Once you have become a member, all you have to do is click the button, or install the button on your browser (took me 3 seconds to figure that part out, it is just drag and drop). Hit the submit tab in the top right of the socialmarker site, and you're off. When you are done on the first site click the next tab, and do the same thing, until you have submitted your website to as many, or few, of the Social Bookmarking sites that you choose.

A very big benefit of this is that your link will be noticed, and indexed by the major search engines sometimes within minutes. The reason for this is the popularity of these sites, there is constantly new information being posted, so the crawlers keep coming back for more.

Few Social Bookmarking site:
1. Delicious
2. Digg - All News, Videos, & Images
3. reddit.com: what's new online!
4. What's Buzzing? You Tell Us! Top News and More - Yahoo! Buzz
5. Technorati: Front Page
6. Home | Propeller
7. Mixx - Latest news and top videos and photos from around the web
8. Mister Wong | Social Bookmarking Tool
9. Ma.gnolia.com - Find Web Sites & Build Community Online
10. Netvouz - Online Social Bookmark Manager - Save, Tag and Share your bookmarks

5 super tips to Increase your Google Page Rank

1. Join forums, forums are a great way to achieve links to your website. In most forums you are allowed to have a signature and in your signature you can put a link to your website. But another important note to look on is making sure the forum is somewhat related to your website. You will still get credit if it's not, but if it's related to your website than you will be accomplishing two tasks at once.

You will be advertising for your website (bringing in targeted traffic) You will also be building your websites presence.

Your websites presence is very important to your survival. The more people see, or hear about your website the more credibility you will have and this increases your chances of having these visitors come back and possibly become leads.

2. Submit to search engine directories. Search engine directories are a good way to get a free link to your website. They also increase your chances at being listed higher on popular search engines like Google, and overture.

Most search engine directories allow you to submit to their website for free. This will allow you to increase your web presence by being listed on another search engine, and it will also be a free link.

Remember the more links you have the higher your PR will be

3. Using ezine ads (or newsletters). Creating an ezine will probably be the most beneficial step you can take to increasing your web presence. When you create an ezine you will be able to keep visitors coming back to your website for more by using signatures and giving special deals.

Ezine's will also allow you to increase your back links. By creating an ezine you can submit your information about your ezine to an ezine directory. This directory will than link to your website(thus giving you a free link).

4. Creating and publishing articles. Articles are an easy source of generating new traffic. You can include your signature in your article. This will bring in more traffic from article submission directories.

Your signature usually consists of 4 to 8 lines. Usually the first line would be the title of the website that you are trying to advertise. The last line would be the link to the website and the lines in between these would be a sales pitch to draw your viewers into your website.

5. Links from related websites. Gaining links from related websites can be one of the most frustrating tasks you can attempt.

Introduction to Backlinks

Backlinks (also called "inlinks") are your main building blocks for a good SEO foundation. What are backlinks? They are external links pointing at your website. Think of them as little votes in search engine eyes. Every time a search engine finds a backlink on another website they give you an extra "point". There is no limit to how many backlinks you can have. The more, the better. However not all backlinks are the same. Search engines prefer them to be from more popular, quality, related and established sites. Links from such sites will give you more credit. And one-way links, where another site links to you, without you linking to them, are even better.

How do you tell how many backlinks (if any) you have?

Simply do this search in different search engines:

1. Google - link:www.yourdomainname.com
2. Yahoo - linkdomain:www.yourdomainname.com
3. MSN - link:www.yourdomainname.com

Please note that new backlinks will take time to appear in search engines. Google, for example only updates your backlinks a few times a year. It also might not show some of them if it thinks they are less important.



How do you develop backlinks?

There are a number of ways of doing this.

Link exchange: It's the practice of exchanging links with other relevant websites. The simplest way of doing it is to email another website owner and ask to do a link exchange. You place their link on your site and the other site in return will place a link back to you. Make sure the link compliments your website theme.

Directory submission: Its when you submit your website to web directories

. There are a LOT of them around all over the internet, both big and small, niche and general, free and paid. Does not matter which directory you submit to, you should only do it if you feel like you will get clicks (visitors) from your actual listing. Don’t bother if the directory you are submitting to looks young or dead. I have compiled a little list of free (hopefully) directories you can submit to here, but there are plenty more around. Quality, not quantity, is the key!

Articles: This is a really good way of getting quality and related backlinks. How it works, is you write an article related to your website of around 600 or so words (every article directory has its own rules and criteria). You add a few backlinks to your website(s) either in the text body or the signature. You then submit your article to an article directory (there are a many of them around, have a look at the list I have compiled here). After your article is approved, other webmasters will visit the article directory in search for some material they can publish on their websites. If they like what you have written and they think it might be of some use to their readers, they will publish your article on their website. Voila! You have new backlinks!

There are many other ways. Some are dodgy ("black hat") and some kosher ("white hat"). Stay with the accepted linking methods, otherwise your underhand attempt will probably come back and bite you in the ass! here are some examples:

• You can join forums and use Members Profile Signature options. Most of the forums allow at least 2/3 links for every members.
• Create free website templates or themes with your backlink in the footer.
• You can also buy backlinks. Even though search engines do not like people buying backlinks in order to boost their SERPs, many of them will get away with this and even have great results. I would however not recommend buying backlinks because the potential downside is too big.
• Another way is to pay for a "write-up" (i.e. a short article with a backlink) about your website on another site. Some people have had similar success with "press releases" on those PR sites.
• You can also join a "webring" of like-minded sites (e.g. see webring.com), or use a so-called "link farm" or "links exchange", although I do not recommend the latter two options as search engines might penalize you.
• Lately, social bookmarking sites, and websites such as Digg and Stumbleupon have also become popular to try and get backlinks and website traffic.