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So, I was about to make a regular sitemap.xml for my site, then I saw that both Google and Bing accept Atom and RSS as sitemaps.
My site is a forum, so there will be new pages created very frequently.
Will using an RSS/Atom feed cause new pages to be indexed more quickly than if I use a regular sitemap.xml?
What are the SEO benefits of one method vs another?
Sitemaps are better because they tell search engines about all of your content, not just the X number of newer threads that RSS and Atom feeds are limited to. Plus they offer extra information such as importance and other items that RSS and Atom do not offer.
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I was told to delete ".html" from web application links in order to be better seen by Google bot. So example.com/path/to/resource.html should be example.com/path/to/resource. I didn't find any document saying that format of the resource, placed in urls, has any influence as such. No matter if it's php, htm, html or any other aspx.
So, how is it? Does omitting the .html, or any other format, make any difference to Google bot?
No not at all. You don't get more or lose ranking because of that. It is not worth the effort.
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I am generating sitemap for my web according to http://www.sitemaps.org/.
Is it possible to have in the sitemap external links?
Or the sitemap always include only the internal links.
Thanks.
According to sitemaps.org:
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.
So, you should not include external URLs to your sitemap at all.
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I have some problems and im confusing now with google webmaster tools
I have example:
http://site.com/link/text.html
and im using CustomVar on google analytics to track clicks from external site
example
http://site.com/link/text.html?promoid=123
Now in webmaster tools i have toons of duplicated links
In robots.txt im add
Disallow: *?promoid
but im not sure if this good idea...
What i should do now, still use robots file and disallow promoid or maybe use rel="canonical" ?
Edit: all links with ?promoid=123 is posted on external site not on my...
This is exactly what canonical URLs are for. It will tell Google that http://site.com/link/text.html is the main URL to use for that page and that any other page using that canonical URL is just a minor variation of that page.
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this is just a simple SEO question.
I have a wordpress SEO plug-in that has this option:
Meta robots: [checkbox] noindex, follow
Should I check this option if I want my page to be available on Google?
Noindex means that the page may not be indexed and thus the page which is affected by this Robots Exclusion Protocol directive, will not appear in major search engines, including Google. The follow directive doesn't have much to do with whether the page appears in a search engine's results.
See this for more info (applies on most search engines):
Control Crawling/Indexing
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What is the use of relativepagescore meta tag and how does it effect SEO?
<meta name="relativepagescore" content="555">
After extensive research I found the source of the tag, his associated to OpenSearch xml file.
This meta tag points to the internal rating of the page.
There is no evidence that the search engines even know\read relativepagescore meta tag, and therefore there is no affect on the relevance of Google search engines results.
But if your site has an internal search engine i will recommend you to consider the use of OpenSearch project.
Which influence directly on your site traffic, build a loyal users, and influence you website SEO work
Explanation of the installation and use of the file you will find here