Category Archives: Robots Feed Subscription
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How do you use robots.txt for SEO and AdWords purposes?
Question: Why do you exclude PPC landing pages from indexing? Answer: On my robots.txt file I exclude the AdWords landing pages. Why? This is so that I am 100% certain that the traffic hitting those pages is... Read more »
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What is a META ROBOTS tag?
Question: What are meta name=”robots”? Answer: There are many varieties of meta-tags. For search engine optimization purposes, only to meta-tags matter. The first is the title tag which is a meta-tag despite the fact that many people... Read more »
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How important is an XML sitemap for SEO?
Question: GREAT class today; we learned so much and LOVE all of your fun analogies. We’re interested in dialing in our xml site map. So, of course, step one: Our robots.txt needs some reference of our xml... Read more »
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What is the difference between Google+ for business and for Google+ personal?
Question: When you say “submit your sitemap” you mean the one generated on free site not your webpage link to your sitemap on site. Also can you clarify when you speak about Google+ and Google+ page for... Read more »
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Where do you put an XML sitemap for SEO?
Question: Should the link to my sitemap be in the footer of my page? If not, where should it be placed? Question: I recently discovered that the images in my blog have been coded as “follow” links... Read more »
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Can I prevent Google from indexing my content? Robots meta tag and all that?
Question: We decided to down size our inventory because it was to overwhelming having over 4000 items. I wanted to find out if I moved some of the items over to a different folder and turned it... Read more »
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For search engine marketing and optimization, do XML sitemaps matter?
Question: We have our sitemap named sitemaps.xml, Google is using it but just curious if it matters. Answer: I checked your sitemap and it’s fine. It’s not very robust, or perfect, but realistically the sitemap is icing... Read more »
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Rapid drop in Website traffic – is that the Penguin update?
Question: Our website had fallout or drop in Analytics in February and remained flat since that time, what should I look at for possibly being a cause? Answer: That could be the fault of the Penguin update.... Read more »
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How do you submit your XML sitemap to Google?
Question: I am confused with how to submit your company site map. I took notes on it when you talked about it, but I did not keep up. Can you please go over that one more time.... Read more »
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For SEO how do you verify that your site has an XML sitemap?
Question: Just to verify, to find out if your site has a site map look up www.yourorg.com/sitemap.xml? Answer: Yes, that is the correct structure for an XML sitemap. Put it at http://www.jasonmcdonald.org/sitemap.xml. Then also in the robots.txt... Read more »
