Monday, February 15, 2010

Google for Webmasters Tutorial


Once you've built great site and you're ready to have it indexed in Google, you'll want to ensure that Google knows about your site's pages. in many cases, Google may already be aware of your page because one or more quality sites have included a relevant link to your site on theirs. Indeed, naturally acquiring such links is a great way for Google to learn abaout your site's pages. if you'd like to let Google know abaout a brand new site of yours, however, you're welcome to jumpstart the process by submitting your site via the Add URL Link here no need to list all your pages; just the top level one, like www.example.com, is sufficient.

To let Google know abaout of your pages, you can submit and XML sitemap.Whether your site is old or new, we highly recommend that you create and XML sitemap, which can help Google and other search engines better fined and understand the page on your site. These are especially useful for sites that feature dynamic content or a large set of new and updated pages, or have few incoming links. You can create a general XML sitemap in minutes, as well as XML sitemaps for other types of information like video; learn more from the links listed here. Note that this isn't the same thing as an HTML, or user-visible sitemap. HTML sitemaps can complement XML sitemaps, and can help people quickly discover and navigate to content deep within your site.

We realize that you may some pages that don't want Google to acces. For instance, you may not want Googlebot, our automated page-fetching robot, acessing documents with private information or pages you're simply not ready to show the word. in cases like this, you'll want to use one of two realible methods for locking us from this content: a "Disallow" line in your robots.txt file or a noindex metatag on each page you don't want indexed.