I would like to know how we can post Sitemap to Bing (search engine).
Liferay by default supports for google and yahoo. In addition to that I would also like to add Bing as well.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
You have to create a bing webmaster tools account and upload the sitemap. Or put the sitemap as mydomain.com/sitemap.xml and bing will find it automatically. You must use the standard sitemap format:
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
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I have recently changed my website file hosting to dreamhost server. But in google search the meta description and the meta title is not updated.
Does anyone know the reason?
This is the website - http://www.mudon-dubai.com/
In all likelihood, Google has yet to recrawl your website.
Below is an easy guide to getting the robot to take another look at your site, among other things:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812?hl=en
I was wondering how I could display the prominent pages (such as About, Contact Us, Pricing, etc) of my website when it is searched for in Google. Currently Google search result only shows the homepage of my website. I want it to display prominent pages underneath as well, something like this:
I would really appreciate any help. Thanks guys!
These are called Google Sitelinks. You can find Google's explanation here. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en
The process is automated, you cannot add sitelinks, but you can remove ones you think shouldn't be there when you see them, through Google Webmaster Tools.
If I wanted to import few lines of a document from Wikipedia into my site. How can I do this?
For example if I had a page about Google and I wanted to just import first paragraph about Google directly from Wikipedia is there an API that does this?
MediaWiki does have an API for all of the MediaWiki databases (Including Wikipedia), which can be found on the API page of the MediaWiki website. There is documentation to go along with it, although it seems a bit verbose.
Wikipedia uses the MediaWiki API: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
I am not sure my title is correct or not since I have no idea on SEO. What I want to do is, let google show extra links of my website just like yahoo.com.
When you search 'yahoo' on google, google shows Mail, Games, My Yahoo, Messenger, Finanace, Fantasy, Sports, and Movies. How do I add these extra links on my website?
This is determined automatically by Google. You may influence this by having is a good structure for your site.
Also submit you sitemap to the serach Engines.
I think you most definitely want to use the Google Webmasters Tools
These links are called Sitelinks. To get them:
Increase your page rank
Google will create the links automatically
If you don't like the links Google created, you can block them using the Webmaster tools.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334
I have created a sitemap for my site and it complies with the protocol set by http://www.sitemaps.org/
Google has been told about this sitemap via webmaster tools. It has tracked all the urls within the sitemap (500+ urls) but has only indexed 1 of them. The last time google downloaded the sitemap was on the 21st of Oct 2009.
When I do a google search for site:url it picks up 2500+ results.
Google says it can crawl the site.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why only 1 url is actually indexed?
Cheers,
James
First off, make sure Google hasn't been forbidden from those pages using robots.txt, etc. Also make sure those URLs are correct. :)
Second, Google doesn't just take your sitemap at face value. It uses other factors, such as inbound links, etc, to determine whether it wants to crawl all of the pages in your sitemap. The sitemap then serves mostly as a hint more than anything else (it helps Google know when pages are updated more quickly, for example). Get high-quality, relevant, useful links (inbound and outbound) and your site should start getting indexed.
Your two statements seem to contradict one another.
but has only indexed 1 of them.
and
When I do a google search for site:url it picks up 2500+ results
bdonlan is correct in their logic (robot.txt and Google's lack of trust for sitemaps) but I think the issue is what you "think" is true about your site.
That is, Google Webmaster Tools says you only have 1 page indexed but site:yoursite.com shows 2.5k.
Google Webmaster Tools aren't very accurate. They are nice but they are buggy and MIGHT help you learn about issues about your site. Trust the site: command. Your in Google's index if you search site:yoursite.com and you see more than 1 result.
I'd trust site:yoursite.com. You have 2.5k pages in Google, indexed and search-able.
So, now optimize those pages and see the traffic flow. :D
Sidenote: Google can crawl any site, flash, javascript, etc.