A week ago, the cat was let out of the bag: Apple and Microsoft were in talks over replacing Google with Bing, and have been for weeks, as the default search engine on the iPhone. Immediately, there were questions over the implications of this move, both for the companies involved and the users.
Today, online advertising network Chitika has released some numbers that show just how big of a move this could be for all parties involved…
In my efforts for the “top spot” (#1 on Google), I do various tasks such as link building, PR, social networking, outreaching, etc. But as we all know obtaining the #1 position takes time if the keyword is worth it. It’s no easy task to prove to Google that their trillion dollar algorithm is wrong about who they’ve chosen to be #1 and that they should be picking your site. Even inexperienced SEO’s have a hard time realizing how much work can be involved.
We need to accomplish some things.. We need to help Google feel secure in putting us #1, while still helping them maintain their search relevance integrity.
So, before reading any further you must KNOW that you should be #1 (in the first place). You must honestly feel (DEEP DOWN) that your site deserves better placement than the top 3 guys (combined) on Google’s sophisticated search engine. If you don’t deserve the top spot, you’re better off spending money and time on bettering your website, company and services. Google will give you chances and test you out in a variety of positions and see how well you perform, so the first key to SEO is to already be #1.
Recently I decided to blog more about SEO related topics. Mainly because I have a couple keywords I want to start targeting. I noticed one of my blogs (My San Diego SEO Blog) (<— not this SEO Blog) was getting traffic for terms relating to ‘SEO‘ and ‘San Diego‘. I’m pretty sure the love I’m getting from the engines come from my relevant link right here in my blog side bar because I never really had any San Diego content.
The title of the blog used to be
Every week I receive a Google Agency Update email. It just entails what’s new from Google. It seems like they start new business and open up more projects and locations every week. At the rate Google is building, …. (whole ‘nother story)
Anyway, here is one of the updates in the email I received.
PART 3 of 5 – Submitting your Sitemap in Google’s Webmaster Tools
Step 3 is a doozy.
Google says “Submit a sitemap as part of our Google Webmaster tools. Google uses your sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your WebPages”
Part 2 of 5 – Submit Your Site to Google.
Ok, we now have all the sites that are relevant to ours linking to us. Next, Google says “Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl.html“
I know a lot of SEO “experts” that say DON’T do this and I am not knocking these “experts”. But some of those experts say don’t do this because you may be drawing the wrong kind of attention to your site, but if your site is legit and relevant to your theme then how could you be attracting the “wrong kind attention”.
