Comments on: ECommerce Realities http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/08/24/ecommerce-realities/ Toujours Le Meme Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:24:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: xoggoth http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/08/24/ecommerce-realities/#comment-2630 xoggoth Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:20:43 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/08/24/264/#comment-2630 Cheers wolfie. Got an xml sitemap and have submitted to some engines but it was some time ago. Need to look at that again I think. Cheers wolfie. Got an xml sitemap and have submitted to some engines but it was some time ago. Need to look at that again I think.

]]> By: Wolfie http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/08/24/ecommerce-realities/#comment-2629 Wolfie Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:53:54 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/08/24/264/#comment-2629 That's a good start but there is still lots you can do to get the ball rolling. 1. Submit your site to each of the main (and minor) search engines. Most have hidden pages where webmasters can submit their sites for indexing. Most will push you to pay for inclusion but don't fall for it, you will be indexed quite quickly with the free inclusion services too. Some web-hosts provide an engine submittal service too, often for a small fee but its worth it. 2. Google has free webmaster accounts, sign up and submit your site. Also they provide a service where you can provide an XML sitemap, this is the future of search. Write a Perl script to generate the XML according to the Google specification and provide the URL of the XML file in the webmaster account panel. You can see how well Google indexes your site by typing <b>site:www.yoursite.com</b> into the engine and seeing the number of page returned. Doing this for my Sister's site changed this from 133 to 7,300. 3. Google ranks sites according how many quality (relevant) incoming links it has. Don't fall for link exchanges but getting other sites with a high rank to link to you will increase this rank, known as the Google Page Rank you can easily determine this for sites by installing the Google toolbar. Getting your site noticed on the web is hard work but with some research and guile you can make an impact. That’s a good start but there is still lots you can do to get the ball rolling.

1. Submit your site to each of the main (and minor) search engines. Most have hidden pages where webmasters can submit their sites for indexing. Most will push you to pay for inclusion but don’t fall for it, you will be indexed quite quickly with the free inclusion services too. Some web-hosts provide an engine submittal service too, often for a small fee but its worth it.

2. Google has free webmaster accounts, sign up and submit your site. Also they provide a service where you can provide an XML sitemap, this is the future of search. Write a Perl script to generate the XML according to the Google specification and provide the URL of the XML file in the webmaster account panel.

You can see how well Google indexes your site by typing site:www.yoursite.com into the engine and seeing the number of page returned. Doing this for my Sister’s site changed this from 133 to 7,300.

3. Google ranks sites according how many quality (relevant) incoming links it has. Don’t fall for link exchanges but getting other sites with a high rank to link to you will increase this rank, known as the Google Page Rank you can easily determine this for sites by installing the Google toolbar.

Getting your site noticed on the web is hard work but with some research and guile you can make an impact.

]]> By: xoggoth http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/08/24/ecommerce-realities/#comment-2628 xoggoth Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:35:49 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/08/24/264/#comment-2628 Useful stuff there. Recently went through the exercise of trying to get my business website a higher profile, adding sitemaps, title & other tags relevant to actual page content etc. as that article says Can't see much result yet tho, how long does it take? Useful stuff there. Recently went through the exercise of trying to get my business website a higher profile, adding sitemaps, title & other tags relevant to actual page content etc. as that article says Can’t see much result yet tho, how long does it take?

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