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I thought I’d give a quick update as to my Carmen Sandiego-esque whereabouts, so I apologize for the noisy, substance-light post. For those of you who live it up in the Big Easy, I’m in New Orleans from now until Sunday. The ECMTA 2008 Spring eCommerce Summit is happening this Tuesday through Friday, and I was asked to attend. In addition to captaining two lunch roundtables (one on Wednesday and one on Thursday), I’ll also be speaking about social media at the New Media Panel on Thursday from 10:30-11:30. If you’re attending the conference you will receive a discount on an SEOmoz PRO membership, and you’ll get an extra hefty discount if you attend my session, so give in to my bribery and park your ass in my room on Thursday.

In addition to speaking at the conference, I’ll be staying the weekend to attend the Jazz Festival, about which I’m geekily excited. I’ve also been urged by no fewer than three people to stuff my face with beignets at Cafe du Monde and check out the French Quarter, so I’ll likely be running around like a dumb tourist while I’m here. If you live in New Orleans or are attending the eCommerce Summit, drop me a line and perhaps we can grab a drink, talk SEO, or greedily gulp down some gumbo.

FYI: Rand and Jane are in Long Beach for SMX Social Media, so with the Three SEO Musketeers out of the office, Q&A responses may be a bit delayed. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Posted by Kate Morris

Getting a new website found on the internet can be difficult for some. You just have to put it up there, right? Nope. You need links, or to tell the main engines that it’s there. Screaming in the forest does nothing, but the homing beacon can do wonders. An XML sitemap is a great beacon.  

Based on Rand’s statements aout Google WMC (Webmaster Central), I think there needs to be a review of XML sitemaps and how to submit them. This is a topic that I personally knew little about (compared to others on SEOmoz, that is), so I think it warrants a How To Article based on what I know and researched this morning.

First off, what is an XML sitemap? According to Sitemaps.org:

In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

How do you get one? Simple. You can either code it yourself (protocol here), or use a sitemap builder. There are tons of free ones and tons of software out there to buy. I personally use SiteMapBuilder for mine. I have them crawl my sites, save the document made, and then edit it using a text editor. (If anyone wants to join in with who you use, I’m sure newbies would be appreciative.)

What is the benefit? Well, it gives a concise look at your website. It’s you telling the spiders what you consider important. Is your privacy policy that important? Probably not as much as your main product page. 

Now you’ve made one, what to do now?

1. Put it in your main directory. Ex.

” title=”http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

” target=”_blank”>www.example.com/sitemap.xml

2. Tell the engines about it directly.
   1. Learn more about Webmaster Central Here.
   2. Yahoo SiteExplorer is Here
   3. MSN/Live is here (I haven’t tested this one yet)

Probably the single best resource to learn about sitemaps is Sitemaps.org. Their FAQs and Sitemap Protocol say just about everything you might need.

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In my early days I played a bit more in the darker side of the game. I fully admit that I built and ran more than 1 or 2 scrapers, aggregators, and MFA style sites, but as a business model those type of sites are really on the decline, and not something I’d ever recommend […]
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I recently upgraded by phone to an iPhone. I have been a long-time Verizon user, but I wanted a phone with a real browser and Verizon doesn’t have anything that browses as good as the iPhone.
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StumbleUpon can be a great asset for your online marketing strategy. Here are 28 tips to take you to SU heaven.

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As I noted in my panel dust up with the head of Google’s universal search product, I found it interesting that YouTube was being pushed so directly into Google’s universal search results. This from Hitwise I also find interesting: One interesting trend that I have noticed is that search…
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I’ve written in depth about blog commenting as a way of bringing traffic and links back to your blog and getting on the radar of bloggers you wish to connect with. In this post I’d like to show you exactly how NOT to leave blog comments using examples I found in my comments section today.
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I’m excited to announce a new free service I developed for local businesses, LeaveFeedback.org. Local Search is one of the newest verticals in the search industry bringing with it the convergence of offline (local) businesses and online search. LeaveFeedback.org has a real solution to one of the biggest problems facing local businesses: online customer reviews.
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Here is a 10 minute and 46 second flash video about how SEO is becoming less mechanical and more social. So far we have about a half dozen members only videos like this one…I am trying to make about one new one each week.

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So hey Google care to explain why this isn’t a paid link page? Any reason you haven’t dinged the page rank of this known link seller or cut off their ability to pass page rank or anchor text? Now I’m not daft enough to believe that any of those companies gave money with the primary […]
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A WebmasterWorld member asks if there’s any penalty for adding H2 text (4 words) for the search engines because his logo is displayed in an image.

The answer seems unclear. Tedster responds that he’s asked Google twice about this — one said that it can get a spam penalty and the other said it was perfectly fine if it was not keyword stuffing and was used only for accessibility.

In other words, we’ll need someone from Google to let us know what the real answer is.

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