Many people have a lot of meta-tags in their pages. These meta-tags in the head-section are usually luggage that they carry around from revision to revision, only to have new tags added as friends and “experts” recognize that some are missing.

Which meta-tags does Google really look at, which ones do I need and which ones should I drop? Read the rest of this entry »

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Google and the other main Search Engines allow webmasters to create a Sitemap file that helps them to discover and crawl your site’s pages and content.

Many webmasters and site owners wonder how long it takes after creating their Sitemap for Google to index their sites? Well in my experience Google will not index a website unless they find at least one link to that website from another website.

This means that it is essential that your site has at least one in-bound link that Google can follow to your site.

So after you get your Sitemap up and running make sure that your site has some in-bound links from other websites - if you can get links from high-traffic, trusted websites I’m willing to bet that your site will be indexed in quick time.

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It is not possible to include URLs from multiple domains or subdomains in the same sitemap file. You need to create separate files for each domain (and subdomain).

Keep in mind that “www.domain.com” and “domain.com” are technically subdomains and would need their own sitemap files if you want both in the index. If you have set the preferred domain and/or are doing a canonical 301-redirect you only need to create a sitemap file for the preferred version; you do not need a sitemap file for the non-preferred subdomain.
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