Table of Contents

Google Sitemaps - a simple XML document that lists all the pages in your website. A google “map” of your pages

Google Analytics - a free tool that gives Web site owners a relatively easy system to keep track of how people are accessing content on their sites

allinurl:<site> - references to actual link string

link:<site> - where others link to a site from

3-4 metrics to influence page-rank

  1. Search engine friendly
    • Google sitemaps
    • Title tags and alt tags to images
    • Keywords
    • Metadata
  2. Page Structure
    • <h1> - <h6> header tags

Page Metadata

  1. 2-3 keywords in <title>
  2. Don’t include the sitename if you want google to index better
  3. meta tag keywords: Descriptive keywords, don’t go overboard though. Less is better.

Page Formatting

  1. hierarchy on pages with <h1>, <h2> tags

Enhancing Page Rank