Hi everyone I have two questions, hopefully someone can answer them: 1. In case if I want to Deindex particular page of my website, I heard there is a feature inside google webmaster tools for this. But if I wanted to, can I just do the modification (from ''doindex'' to noindex) inside robots file? Im trying to avoid mentoined feature inside GWT but Im wondering if modification in robots file will have exactly the same effect? Of course this way I should NEVER receive any crawling errors because all I want to do is to remove the page (one or several) from index so it (they) isn't (aren't) indexed anymore. 2. Totally different question which has nothing to do with first one. Doing blogs on /blog page for having fresh content; To get blog page indexed, its not enough to just set it to allow index inside robots file but I also have to build some inbound link pointing to the blog page. I have the question about the anchor text. Which anchor text should be used? I ask this because I, as everyone else, don't have targeted keyword on a blog page. Basic SEO rule is to write unique and quality text on a page targeting one keyword but when blogging, there cannot be any targeted keywords. Therefore, what should be the anchor text in inbound link pointing to blog page of my website? It cannot be ''keyword'' if there is no keyword. Should it be ''blog''? Should it be ''my blog''? Should it be anything else? Thanks in advance.
Answer to your first question: 1. You can remove a page through robots.txt as well as by using GWT. The GWT feature that you don't want to mention is "Remove a URL". Through this you can request Google to remove a URL from its index. You could also remove a page from search engine's index by using robots.txt. For this you have to add the following code in your robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: /folder/file-name.php This way no search engine would crawl that particular page. You can also define a particular search engine if you wish Like: User-agent: Googlebot A better and easy way would be to add the following code: <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> in the header section of that page that you don't want search engines to crawl. Answer to your second question: 2. To get a blog indexed you don't need to create back links for it. Just update your blog regularly, search engines would find it automatically. More you could do for faster indexing is a. link your blog through your home page, sitemap. b. create an RSS feed for your blog and submit it to few RSS directories. c. every time you update your blog (post a new content on your blog) ping it. d. do some blog commenting on the blogs that have "CommentLuv" plugin. It will automatically pull your last post in your signature links. This way you will get link for your post. e. interlink your posts. Hope it helps.
1st question: i just removed the pages which i don't want to be crawled from google webmaster tools. You can also use robots.txt file. 2nd question: Daniel is right. Do update your blog with fresh content on regular basis.
danielwood regarding my second question; Im using xsitepro and its not hard to build the rss feeds which would be located on my own website. But I don't know yet how it would be possible to submit rss feeds wherever else that is not my website? your ''2c''; you said that I need to ping it. I heard for expression ''ping'' or ''pinging'' when it comes to IPs but I haven't heard this yet when it comes to SEO purposes. What does ''ping it'' mean and how would I do that? If the following have any sense: I plan to use wordpress blog. Its true that I am only interested in building the website with xsitepro but the term ''Publishing The Entire WebSite Which I Own'' is probably the same with no matter where you design the website and how you build a blog so even IF you haven't used xsitepro; do I have to publish my website (entire website and not just particular page) every time I create a new blog? your ''2d''; Here I don't have a subquestion (i already asked 3 different in this message) but just a comment; For my opinion its not a good idea to get links from comments of other people's blogs. The reason for this is because some competitors can purposely ''hurt'' you so they can easier beat you in rankings. That means they will paste some bad links (to warez / torrents sites for example) in the comments. Most people, including me (and for sure you too), know this so everyone will of course put comments to nofollow attribut. I know from the aspect of getting traffic, the link to my blog is still good idea but, since its nofollow, it won't help with indexing my blog on all 3 major search engines. your ''2e''; just to be sure that I understand what you mean with ''interlink your posts''. Did you mean that I should build internal link pointing from X blog of the blog page of my personal website to Y blog (of course of the same blog page)? But what should be the anchor text in this internal link then?
I don't think there is any need for you to switch to wordpress if you want to use xsitepro. Though I don't have an experience with such a site. But if you could create an RSS Feed for your site then next step is to search for few RSS Feed directories and submit your feed URL there in the appropriate category. Here you could find a few RSS directories. Check and find the good ones: squidoo.com/rss-feeds-directory Blog Ping is a service that is used by blog owners to tell different search engines that your blog has been updated. So whenever you post a new content on your blog, you could submit your blog URL in such services. One such service is offered by: pingomatic.com/ You just need to submit your URL there whenever you update your blog. Regarding commenting on others blog all good maintained blogs moderate posted comments before approval. So there is no issue of bad links. Yes, I do admit that most of the links these days are "nofollow" but not "noindex". Both are different tags. With "nofollow" you tell the Search Engines not to pass the link juice but "noindex" confirms not to index the link. So you could comment on some popular blogs those got indexed frequently. By interlinking I mean to interlink blog/page1 through blog/page2. To interlink one post with the other try to insert the Title of a post in other post in natural way and hyperlink it with the post URL. If you can't insert the exact title naturally try to use a line similar to your post title. Hope, i make myself clear.
Answer to your first question is yes you can de-index a web page by adding no follow no index to the robots file. You have to disallow that page like : disallow /new-page.asp This will help you... For second question: If you're not willing to use any keyword as anchor text for links coming to your blog then you can use your website domain name and blog after that. Suppose your site is www.mysite.com. You can use anchor text : my site blog I think this is the best way to point your blog....
danielwood I didn't say I want to switch to wordpress. I want to use xsitepro but with learning xsitepro, I haven't come so far yet to create the blog with exact theme which I want to. Honestly I know nothing about wordpress yet, I didn't even know I can design the website with wordpress. I thought it is just for making blogs. I heard some good stories about blogs being made in wordpress and also if they are made in wordpress, they are also being indexed for sure and/or fast. But if is used also for designing websites therefore I won't use it because I don't want to use two different tools for website design. When I ping my blog (after I create new one on my own website), is it enough if I ping it once for new blog on this same site (pingomatic.com) for all 3 major search engines? Or do I have to ping it 3 times - also for yahoo and bing? I see that on this site pingomatic.com I can also ping rss feed. How often do I have to ping it (rss feed and not blog)? Also I probably have to submit my rss feed on at least 1 rss feed directory to then ping it. Please correct me if im wrong. If I change the content (doesn't matter if one sentence in the text or entire text) on NONblog page, do I have to ping that page (and not entire website) too? If yes then I should probably use some other pinging website... This blog homepage URL is something like ''www.mysite.com/blog'' without the quotes. So every time I ping the blog page, I should use this exact URL. Blogs have the same URL, don't they? At the end of your previouns reply Daniel you mentoined ''post URL'' but you probably meant page URL where are blogs located, yes? Also one more thing if I may; When I update a blog and after I ping it, do I have to resubmit sitemap to google webmaster tools? Which means for every new blog, for every new pinging of blog I would have to resubmit sitemap. I remember around a month ago I had some conversation with someone who knows even less about seo than I do, with total beginner. We spoke about this sitemap. He was saying that he wants to rank on all 3 major search engines, same as me and as thousands of other internet marketers as well. He kept asking me where to submit the sitemap for yahoo search engine and where to submit it for bing search engine. I answered that submiting it on google webmaster tools is enough for ALL 3 search engines. This paragraph is pretty much offtopic comparing to my first post but since my previouns question in this message was related to sitemap, its not much problem of typing this as well. Did I answer him correctly? Probably yes. Chestercaldwel thank you for your reply. Your second answer helps me a lot. Just to clarify; I didn't say that im not ''willing'' to use a keyword in anchor text of inbound link to blog page of my website. As Daniel said there is no particular need of having inbound link to get blog indexed but for traffic to your blog, its good to have it. So therefore I would have to make another blog to promote my primary blog. What I wanted to say, instead of ''willing to'' is; on the /blog page its almost impossible to target specific keyword with no matter how many services / products do you offer. In your daily blogs you just talk about your business, what is happening, what is the latest offer, what kind of success you had (in case of offering for example seo help service), what new would you like to say or even about something related more to your private life. So you talk just about everything. Therefore its not possible to use specific keyword in anchor text. Your answer on my second questions sounds great idea.
Sadperson, you don't need to ping 3 times. When you update your blog and submit in such a service, it will automatically send ping to all search engines. You don't need to ping your RSS feed just the blog url in your case mysite.com/blog When you are making any modification on your website page rather than a blog page, no need to submit it in pinging service. "By post URL i mean the URL of your blog post. Every post has a unique page for it. By post URL, i was referring the same. Lastly you don't need to submit your sitemap again and again. Once you submit in Google webmaster tools, you are done. Generally it is enough if you submit your sitemap in Google. But still if you feel like, you want to add it in Yahoo and bing too, then follow the same procedure as for Google. That is goto their webmaster tools, create account and submit your sitemap. Hope it clarifies the things.
You can deindex any page from Google using the Google Webmaster, page removal. The page will be removed and you will not see it appearing in the SERPs. Having a keyword is "blog" is useless and you will just be wasting your time. Come on there must be some keyword related to the topic of the posts on your blog. Make sure that you use that in the anchor text.