Web Submission Information
- How
web sites are submitted
- Sitemaps
How
web sites are submitted
There are two basic methods still in use today
that would allow a webmaster to submit their site
to Google, Yahoo!, Live. They can either submit just
one web page at a time, or they can submit their
entire site at one time with a sitemap. However,
all that a webmaster really needs to do is to
submit just the home page of a web site. With
just the home page, most Google, Yahoo!, Live and more are able
to crawl a site, provided that it is well
designed.
Web sites desire to be listed
in popular Google, Yahoo!, Live and more because that is how
most people access web sites. People like to search
for information on the web at what is known as
Google, Yahoo!, Live. Sites that appear on the first
page of a search are said to be in the top 10.
Clicking on a hyperlink causes the found web page
to appear in the searchers web browser.
Thus, webmasters often highly
desire that their sites appear in the top 10 in
Google, Yahoo!, Live search. This is because searchers
are not very likely to look over more than one
page of search results, known as a SERPs.
In order to obtain good placement
on search results in the various engines, webmasters
must optimize their web pages. The process is
called web optimization. Many variables
come into play, such as the placement and density
of desirable keywords, the hierarchy structure
of web pages employed in a web site (i.e., How
many clicks from the home page are required to
access a particular web page?) , and the number
of web pages that link to a given web page. The
Google web also uses a concept called
page rank.
PageRank relies on the uniquely
democratic nature of the web by using its vast
link structure as an indicator of an individual
page's value. In essence, Google interprets a
link from page A to page B as a vote, by page
A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably
more than the sheer volume of votes, or links
a page receives; for example, it also analyzes
the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages
that are themselves "important" weigh
more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Using these and other factors, Google provides
its views on pages' relative importance ( Source:
http://www.google.com/technology/)
Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps was introduced in June 2005 so
web developers could publish lists of links from
across their sites[1]. The sitemap is used to
make Google, Yahoo! and Live aware of the site and the
pages on the site.
As of 2007 XML sitemaps are
supported by Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN. The
location of the Sitemap can be specified using
a robots.txt file to help Google, Yahoo!, Live and more find
the Sitemaps. |
