Every time when your site get updated with new posts, articles, you have to inform Google, yhaoo and Bing about the new postings in our site. This can be done by pinging to there respective urls along with your sitemap file name. Lets start with One By one. Ping Google Submitting a Sitemap helps you [...]

Cocoon is based on the Spring 2.0 framework. The Spring Configurator and the Servlet ServiceFramework are two subprojects having Spring as main dependency. It’s important to note that both can be reused outside of Cocoon Core. The Spring Configurator provides basic support for configuring web applications that make use of Spring. The Servlet Service Framework enables modularization based on the javax.servlet.Servletinterface. Those [...]

Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it is based around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is very similar to Cocoon 2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and designed to be easily used with Java code (= no frameworks required!). On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of [...]

Agama Web Menus is an advanced and highly effective tool that will enable you to create perfect and fully functional DHTML/Javascript menus compatible with all commonly used browsers without being obliged to write even a single code line. Our tool will make it possible even for a complete beginner to create professionally looking DHTML menus [...]

Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index. We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or “crawl”) billions of pages on the web. The program that does the fetching is called Googlebot (also known as a robot, bot, or spider). Googlebot uses [...]

Now a Days all are more concerned about search engine optimization. The SEO (search engine optimization) is not a difficult task. It is very easy If we do it properly .The SEO can lead more natural traffic from Google as well as other search engines. Here we are going to describe you the most important part of [...]

Here you can download and install sitemap for your phpbb forum sites. The sitemap download link and installation instruction is given below. Installation: 1) Download sitemap_version_6.zip and decompress: sitemap_version_6.zip (931 Bytes) Downloaded 44 times 2) If Your PHPBB3 Forum is installed in the root folder, for instance at http://techgurulive.com then skip “a” a) modify the $folder or [...]

If you have multiple websites, you can simplify the process of creating and submitting Sitemaps by creating one or more Sitemaps that includes URLs for all your verified sites, and saving the Sitemap(s) to a single location. All sites must be verified in Webmaster Tools. You can choose to use: A single Sitemap that includes [...]

A sitemap is a way of organizing a website, identifying the URLs and the data under each section. Previously, the sitemaps were primarily geared for the users of the website. However, Google’s XML format was designed for the search engines, allowing them to find the data faster and more efficiently.

The priority of a particular URL relative to other pages on the same site. The value for this tag is a number between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 identifies the lowest priority page(s) on your site and 1.0 identifies the highest priority page(s) on your site.
The default priority of a page is 0.5.

By placing a formatted xml file with site map on your webserver, you enable Search Engine crawlers (like Google) to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly

Link management is a very important and absolutely essential part of maintaining a website. Broken links can stop search engine robots dead in its tracks, effectively preventing it from completely indexing a website.

Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The list contains positive, negative and neutral factors because all of them exist. Most of the factors in the checklist apply mainly to Google and partially to MSN, Yahoo! and all the other search engines of lesser importance. If you need more information on particular sections of the checklist, you may want to read our SEO tutorial, which gives more detailed explanations of Keywords, Links, Metatags, Visual Extras, etc.