The reason I've made the value low
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 5:23 am
when you have 0-20% of your pages indexed is that this generally corresponds with an overall lack of the required link juice to spread around. You need to get over that barrier before you can start to tackle where to flow it internally to get pages indexed. Graph of the Value of XML Sitemaps Similar to PR sculpting, XML Sitemaps tend to carry more value in certain scenarios (and, interestingly, with certain engines).
It's been my experience that Microsoft's Bing en usa email database gine gives slightly more preferential treatment to pages in XML sitemap files than Google, but at high numbers of URLs, the value is high for both engines (I've not included Yahoo! because I haven't seen consistent results with their treatment of Sitemaps - and because I strongly suspect that 8-10 months from now, we'll be SEO'ing in a two engine world). p.s. As always, these graphs are based on my personal opinions & experience; please feel free to share your opinions and critiques.
In reading Rand’s post on the paid links debate and the related comments that followed, as well as the discussion about link brokers on another site, I wanted to take some time to figure out how to actually go about white-hat link building. The definition of paid links for the purposes of this article is paid links = $/mo. If the money stops the link disappears. This is coming from someone fairly new to the SEO industry, and my aim in writing this is not only to help solidify my thoughts, but to also get your feedback for what has worked in the past (creative ideas that haven’t made it out of the testing phase are welcome).
It's been my experience that Microsoft's Bing en usa email database gine gives slightly more preferential treatment to pages in XML sitemap files than Google, but at high numbers of URLs, the value is high for both engines (I've not included Yahoo! because I haven't seen consistent results with their treatment of Sitemaps - and because I strongly suspect that 8-10 months from now, we'll be SEO'ing in a two engine world). p.s. As always, these graphs are based on my personal opinions & experience; please feel free to share your opinions and critiques.
In reading Rand’s post on the paid links debate and the related comments that followed, as well as the discussion about link brokers on another site, I wanted to take some time to figure out how to actually go about white-hat link building. The definition of paid links for the purposes of this article is paid links = $/mo. If the money stops the link disappears. This is coming from someone fairly new to the SEO industry, and my aim in writing this is not only to help solidify my thoughts, but to also get your feedback for what has worked in the past (creative ideas that haven’t made it out of the testing phase are welcome).