Christopher is the founder of iMod - Most of his time is spent building websites and pushing the limits with Search Engine Optimization. You can follow him on Twitter @ChristopherM
I started to feel that it’s really important to educate everyone. And although the video isn’t by myself, it is by the best of the best, which means we know it’s a reliable source :)
I ping the search engines with my sitemap, as there’s no RSS feed. Is that wrong? I think it works though. Launched a client’s site a month ago – went straight to page one for it’s top 2 search phrases and has stayed there ever since.
Eh… Yeah. That is what I mean. Sending the sitemap to the crawler/search engine, instead of registering/submitting the site to the search engine and waiting for it to come and crawl. I get brand new websites into Google in 24 – 36 hours like that. If you “submit” your site with Google, it takes weeks.
Here is an example, although it’s never the same for every search engine:
That’s the thing: I do it once for each site. Some I do again after I’ve updated it. I don’t offer SEO as a service to my clients, although I do design with that in mind. So I don’t throw a lot of traffic their way in that regard. You sounded confused with me pinging them the sitemap? Isn’t this common practice?
Thanks Chris!
That was most interesting.. certainly opened my mind as far as SEO is concened.
Look forward to the next episode.
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I started to feel that it’s really important to educate everyone. And although the video isn’t by myself, it is by the best of the best, which means we know it’s a reliable source :)
I ping the search engines with my sitemap, as there’s no RSS feed. Is that wrong? I think it works though. Launched a client’s site a month ago – went straight to page one for it’s top 2 search phrases and has stayed there ever since.
What do you mean by pinging the search engines with the sitemap? You mean that you’re sending the sitemap to the search engines?
Eh… Yeah. That is what I mean. Sending the sitemap to the crawler/search engine, instead of registering/submitting the site to the search engine and waiting for it to come and crawl. I get brand new websites into Google in 24 – 36 hours like that. If you “submit” your site with Google, it takes weeks.
Here is an example, although it’s never the same for every search engine:
http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vj-elite.co.za/sitemap.xml
Like I said – not sure if I am allowed to do it like that, but it works. The VJ site was in Google within 26 hours after I pinged it.
Nah, you’re definitely allowed to use ping services, just make sure you suffle IP addresses if it’s pinging on a very frequent basis :)
That’s the thing: I do it once for each site. Some I do again after I’ve updated it. I don’t offer SEO as a service to my clients, although I do design with that in mind. So I don’t throw a lot of traffic their way in that regard. You sounded confused with me pinging them the sitemap? Isn’t this common practice?
You phrased it in a manner which made me think you had an automatic script, which pinged on a frequency, such as a cron job :)