seo and wordpress stuff for all & sundry
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There is an additional option in the external keyword tool once you have a Google account which allows you to source keywords from a competitors URL or any URL for that matter, which is very cool, not just the keywords in the meta tag but content rich keywords.
To get the option, make sure your signed into your Google account and then try the external Google keyword tool, sometimes you have to try a couple of times to make the option appear. Read the rest of this entry »
One invaluable free tool for getting keyword ideas is the external keyword tool from Google. The results are based on Google search results over the prior 12 months but on a monthly basis.
When you first log in depending on where you are geographically, you’ll need to set your preferences in the edit link on the line;
“Results are tailored to English, United States Edit“,
..selecting All Countries and Territories will give you a global idea.
Well you can do some painstaking trawling through the search result pages and if you’re lower ranked that’s going to take some time and you might even miss it, with a Firefox plug in and a script you can let Google take you there in a click, which is very nice. Read the rest of this entry »
Ok, this site got indexed on Google about 15 hours ago but so far not yet on Bing or Yahoo, to check if a site is indexed go to the search engine and type in:
site:mynewsite.com
If it’s indexed all your pages display, so this site took approx 1.5 days to get on there, thats good, i have other sites still not indexed yet.
You will not need to submit links to any other search engines, that battle has been fought, all the others feed into the big three; Yahoo, Google and Bing – here is a link to show how the search engine relationship chart exists – so after submission you need to sit and wait until you get indexed – there are a couple of other things to do while you wait, getting sorted with analytics and sitemaps and robots; has to be something from a John Carpenter film.
Indexing is a wait and see scenario there is no fixed time that the search engines will inde you, it can well vary between a couple of days to a couple of months, one thing that will help is if another site already indexed has a link to yours.
To manually submit your new site to a search engine you can do Bing here and Google here, i have heard that doing this sometimes makes the process take longer but haven’t heard why? Look forward to any comments on this.
Will discuss Yahoo and Open Directory in a future post but these 2 are the more important starting points.
Actually it is preffered to get your site up to SEO scratch before you do this as then you will get indexed correctly at the start – rather than waiting for a re-index.
