More XML/GPS awesomeness.
If you implemented my training from “SEO made easy” and you uploaded a video to YouTube and put it on your site, then this should help with your SEO rather a lot.
There’s a plugin called “Google XML Sitemaps for videos.” Get it. This plugin tells Google that there’s a video on your website (in case it didn’t know already) and it ranks you for it accordingly, especially if it’s a YouTube video, since Google owns YouTube. This is what the plugin has to say for itself:
“Sitemaps are a way to tell Google, Bing and other search engines about web pages, images and video content on your site that they may otherwise not discover.
The Video Sitemap plugin will generate an XML Sitemap for your WordPress blog using all YouTube videos that you may have embedded in your blog posts.
Your Video Sitemap will include web pages which embed videos from YouTube or which links to videos on YouTube. If a YouTube video that you have in your blog has been removed from YouTube, the record in the Sitemap file will be ignored by Googlebot.”
Now, I’m not exactly sure what the “Googlebot” is but if I had to guess I would say that it’s an evil robot that goes around shooting red lasers at low quality wordpress sites, terrifying little children from their sleep and generally wreaking havoc. Either that or it’s another name for the previously mentioned “spiders,” but if I had to bet on it I would choose the first one.
Working around the Big G
If you implemented my training from “SEO made easy” and you uploaded a video to YouTube and put it on your site, then this should help with your SEO rather a lot.
There’s a plugin called “Google XML Sitemaps for videos.” Get it. This plugin tells Google that there’s a video on your website (in case it didn’t know already) and it ranks you for it accordingly, especially if it’s a YouTube video, since Google owns YouTube. This is what the plugin has to say for itself:
“Sitemaps are a way to tell Google, Bing and other search engines about web pages, images and video content on your site that they may otherwise not discover.
The Video Sitemap plugin will generate an XML Sitemap for your WordPress blog using all YouTube videos that you may have embedded in your blog posts.
Your Video Sitemap will include web pages which embed videos from YouTube or which links to videos on YouTube. If a YouTube video that you have in your blog has been removed from YouTube, the record in the Sitemap file will be ignored by Googlebot.”
Now, I’m not exactly sure what the “Googlebot” is but if I had to guess I would say that it’s an evil robot that goes around shooting red lasers at low quality wordpress sites, terrifying little children from their sleep and generally wreaking havoc. Either that or it’s another name for the previously mentioned “spiders,” but if I had to bet on it I would choose the first one.
Working around the Big G
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Bedros
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Well, are we sure about this?
""To start, allow me to give a little background. Google automatically assumes that if you have links on your website, you're trying to get something out of it (I don’t blame it, it’s probably true) and will lower you in the rankings. Now if Google finds your site and sees that it has no links on it, it will think that your site is purely informational and thus, more helpful for the people who search with Google (pretty much everybody).
Now let's get a little tricky… When you’re writing your content for your site, purposefully omit all of your links. Yup leave them out. If you want you can underline where you want them to be so you don’t forget, it doesn’t matter, just leave the links out.""
""To start, allow me to give a little background. Google automatically assumes that if you have links on your website, you're trying to get something out of it (I don’t blame it, it’s probably true) and will lower you in the rankings. Now if Google finds your site and sees that it has no links on it, it will think that your site is purely informational and thus, more helpful for the people who search with Google (pretty much everybody).
Now let's get a little tricky… When you’re writing your content for your site, purposefully omit all of your links. Yup leave them out. If you want you can underline where you want them to be so you don’t forget, it doesn’t matter, just leave the links out.""
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tommydillard
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It has nothing to do with your affiliate links or any of your out going links. It is all about back links which are the ones that get linked yo you from someone or something else and people where using computer generated back link programs to game the system. So now google does not use them to rank your site anymore or they only play a small part of your rankings. So you can still link to your other pages on your on your site and affiliate links but only a few per page. I hope this gives you more insight on this.
Tommy
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tommydillard
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Richanddarla
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Very good training, and I really enjoyed your light humorous writing style.
Goldenlady
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When you say Google will give your site high ranking while it doesn't have any links on it, what is high ranking? Is this page-one ranking?
TrevorSH
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It should be. It's as high as a ranking that you're going to get, although I'll admit I've had a site stuck on page four and it won't budge. It usually works for me though. Also I forgot to add in the training: more pages. Lots of content is a good thing. (should be obvious) and don't bold ALL of your keywords, only bold them at the beginning of every post. You probably know that, I just figured I would cover it just in case... Some people have actually PM me about that.
