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Diagnosing What’s Wrong with Your Website

When you diagnose a problem with your website, first make sure you actually have a real problem. The most obvious indication of a problem is a traffic drop. But before you start making modifications and wasting a lot of precious time, look at your analytics to confirm that you have a real problem.

PubCon: Understanding How the Big Boys Operate

Did you ever wonder how large companies keep up with all the pages on their websites? As he explains in the above video, Bill Hunt of Global Strategies knows all about this since IBM is one of their clients. First, know whether or not the search engines are indexing all your pages. If they aren’t, then you need to check a few things out. Make sure you have a sitemap that is working correctly, and check your own spider to make sure you’re being seen. Also, look at your combined PPC and organic data to find out what is converting and what is not.

SES Chicago 2007: Infrastructure Product Manager of Ask.com, Vivek Pathak

The Infrastructure Product Manager of Ask.com, Vivek Pathak talked with WebProNews at the Search Engine Strategies 2007 Conference in Chicago. Pathak gives the audience a deeper look into sitemaps. He also gives tips as to how to improve your sitemap and tells us what Ask.com is doing to improve the overall user experience. [...]

SES Chicago 2007: Jeremy Clem, DoubleClicks Performics

WebProNews talked with the Manager of Natural Search at DoubleClicks Performics, Jeremy Clem at the Search Engine Strategies 2007 Conference in Chicago. Clem gives us his perspective of sitemaps and the future of sitemaps with the search engines. He also talks with us about the option of creating a system for trusted sitemaps. [...]

SES Chicago 2007: Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand.com

WebProNews talked with Editor of SearchEngineLand.com, Danny Sullivan at the Search Engine Strategies 2007 Conference in Chicago.

Sitemaps Hurt SEO Work?

SEOmoz.org’s Rand Fishkin recently blogged about sitemaps. Sitemaps sit on your server and assist search engine spiders to crawl and index your site. Fishkin believes sitemaps may hurt your SEO efforts. SEO personalities RustyBrick and David Naylor support Fishkin on this concern. Google’s Central Product Manager Vanessa Fox does not consider [...]

Exclusive: Yahoo And Google Launch Sitemaps.org

Our PubCon coverage continues from Las Vegas with this special report.
In an exclusive video interview with WebProNews Yahoo and Google announced a collaborative site called sitemaps.org. Tim Mayer states in the video, “This is something we are announcing tonight at around 9 PM tonight (Las Vegas) Google and Yahoo have gotten together to provide webmasters [...]

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