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2010Optimize Sitemaps To Improve Search Engine Ranking
Increasing a sites popularity with search engines does not have to be a tedious task. Using a few simple SEO techniques you can increase traffic and gain a lot of good exposure. Today we will discuss a few SEO tips to help improve the relevance of specific pages throughout your site with the use of well designed sitemaps and well chosen inbound links.
So, are you currently using sitemaps to their full advantage? Many people are aware of the benefits of using sitemaps for structuring and organizing sites which makes navigation easier for visitors, but the question is how well are your sitemaps optimized?
When developing sitemaps you must keep both the surfer as well as search engines in mind. You want your sitemap to act as a central hub which links to very specific landing pages. Keyword relevance is very important.
Say for example you want to target 10 important sections/pages on your site, surely you want to include these keyword rich links in your main sitemap. You also want to increase your SERP (search engine results page) ranking for those pages linked from your central hub and one way this can be achieved is by having several other pages link to those 10 sections you are trying to target, these other pages of course which are not linked to directly from the main sitemap or hub. This helps to increase the amount of inbound links which ultimately gives certain areas of your site added weight with search engines.
Keep in mind that with consistent use of specific keywords and the more relevant these additional inbound links are to the sections you are trying to target the better the results will be.
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Sitemaps are crucial for any blog or website. Sitemaps inform search engine bots how a website’s structure is. It also makes easier to those crawlers to go through the entire linked page at once.