Two important questions for SEO - Two important tips - Help needed!

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by zm21, Nov 17, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    Suppose that our example website is http://www.perrymarshall.com

    Question-1:

    This website uses a different technique for indexing html pages like below:
    There is a main index.htm page and for important pages he created subfolders and use always "index.htm" for other pages.
    Such as:
    http://www.perrymarshall.com/technical/index.htm
    http://www.perrymarshall.com/marketing/index.htm

    Is this a good technique for SEO? Does this really add value for ranking? I need a professional comment on this.

    Question-2:

    When a search "perrymarshall" is made on Google,
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=perrymarshall

    We see the sitemap of the website under the perrymarshall.com
    How can we do this for our website?

    I want to see the same thing when I search my domain on Google. I want to see the sitemap of my website between my website domain and "More results from my site" link. How can I do this?

    Thank you for your answers.
     
    zm21, Nov 17, 2008 IP
  2. chillingbreeze

    chillingbreeze Well-Known Member

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    #2
    I let somebody else to answer this professionally. I believe I cannot answer this up to your satisfaction.

    You cannot have this by your own. Google gives some sites an authority status when they've great quality backlinks from some of authority websites and relevant sites. It is acquired after pretty hard work and fair seo and website promotion strategies. In simple words, it takes time to achieve that authority status.

    Cheers!
     
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  3. flatroxs

    flatroxs Banned

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    #3
    Thanks For you Give This information
     
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  4. Kneoteric_eSolutions

    Kneoteric_eSolutions Banned

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    #4
    Well Chilling breeze has answered your second question; you have build that authority before Google starts showing that for your website. Even after you have done that it would not do it for all organic results. I have only seen it happen when someone types the exact name of the company. So if you do a search for Kneoteric you will get those links but not for any other keyword search.

    Secondly the url structure. I don't see the point in having the index.htm at the end. The url without it just looks fine for both search engines and users. While checking out the links I noticed that I could access two URLs; one with index.htm and one without it. You don't wanna do that because it is duplicate content.
     
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  5. Debt Reduction

    Debt Reduction Peon

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    Sorry but i could not get you.

    But trying to understand as possible by me.
     
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  6. zm21

    zm21 Peon

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    Thanks for your answers. For my first question, that technique took my attention. And I started to think that maybe this technique might cause high rankings because all of them are "index.htm" in different folders. Maybe Google gives the same value to all of them as Google gives to the main index page. This is just my prediction, putting forward my ideas. That's why I need a real professional comment about this.

    The technique is giving "index" name to all the pages of the website under different subfolders.
     
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  7. Placebo02

    Placebo02 Peon

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    Google choses if you deserve sitemap, it will probably get it as it grows
     
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  8. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    I think you mean sitelinks, not sitemap, which is a completely different thing.
    Google gives sitelinks in it's own time, they've never said exactly what triggers it, but clear clean structure and good navigation seem to be factors and there also seems to be an age factor that kicks in.
    It's got bog all to do with 'authority'
     
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  9. Acejam

    Acejam Well-Known Member

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    I really like the sitemap feature on Google's results, and have alway wondered how to get that for my own site. Thanks for the info!
     
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  10. ss101

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    Sitelinks and sitemaps are 2 different animals. Many sites have them when doing a search under the exact domain name, or something really similar. The links google chooses usually appear on the homepage with good navigation. I did not like the ones google had for one of my sites and I made some changes to the home page links and now I like themMade the changes a little over a month ago, and this post made me look at them and they are better now. I have no idea when they changed them....
     
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  11. zm21

    zm21 Peon

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    Okay Guys, I understand the sitelink feature that Google gives to some websites. What about my first question? :D

    I haven't got a proper answer for the first question. The SEO technique which uses index.html for all pages of the website under different subfolders.
     
    zm21, Nov 18, 2008 IP
  12. SEOSUCKS

    SEOSUCKS Peon

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    For First Question -> I don't think google and other search engine will give more imprtant to you subfolders index page.. Subfolders are use to organise the link structure of our site..

    Search Engine algorithms are very strong and works different from any one's normal thinks.. They work on Artificial Intelligence Alogrithms..

    If you need to set importance of different pages on your site, you can set priorites in the sitemap. This can help search engines to know the Important pages of the sites according to the webmaster and gives more attention to those pages than others..
     
    SEOSUCKS, Nov 18, 2008 IP