Posts Tagged ‘google’

How to Establish Yourself Online – Part 2: Domain Name and Web Host

Posted: August 19, 2009 at 12:00 am by

If you have read Part 1 of our series, you will know the value of creating a Brand for your online presence. To recap, a brand is a word or series of words that represents your product or yourself. Your brand is important, as you want online users to remember your brand and what it stands for. For this article, we will discuss purchasing a domain name and a web host.

Get Listed in Google Faster

Posted: August 15, 2009 at 5:56 pm by

f you are running a new blog, one of your first concerns is getting listed in Google, as search engines are very important in generating traffic to your blog. The problem is, out of the box, it may take days or even weeks to get listed in Google, which is damning if you have content that is time sensitive. So, how can you get listed in Google quickly? Below are a few methods I have learned from others established in the industry.

Blocking Search Engine Bots

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 7:59 pm by

When you are beginning a new website, the best course of action is to block all bots until the site is complete. As a new domain is created, Google and many of the other search engines will begin to bring bots to your site and list all content. This is not good, as you are under construction, and may not be ready to be indexed yet. There are two solutions to this problem. The first solution is to create a robots.txt file and tell the search engines to not index your site. The second is a more powerful option: using a noindex meta tag.

Remove Old Links from Google

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 6:00 pm by

After looking into Search Engine Optimization, I have learned the hard way on how to best create a website. Search engines, especially Google, begin indexing your site once your site exists on the Internet. It does not matter if you are done or not, Google’s spiders still come and index what is there. This means content your not ready for the world to see will appear in search engines, leading people to a unfinished website. Once your site does go live, your site’s listing in Google will contain many broken or out of date links, which will make your site look bad to both Google and your intended users. How do we remove those old links from Google, so we only have relevant links, which improve our rankings?