You’re launching a brand new website, or you’ve redesigned your existing website. You and your web designer have spent a lot of time on keyword research, creating strong content, and optimizing site structure. It looks great, it functions well and … Continue reading →

In this new GoogleWebmasters clip, Matt Cutts addresses a question about creating a site map for users, or HTML sitemaps. Are they still necessary alongside XML sitemaps. The answer is a resounding yes. Clearly Googlebot likes a sitemap, so don’t … Continue reading →

Matt Cutts from Google is here to discuss whether a site’s downtime can affect its ranking. The short answer is yes. Though as usual, Matt is not prepared to give us any specifics. If your site is down for a … Continue reading →

Accidentally preventing search engines from crawling and indexing your website’s pages is not going to help your presence in the organic search results. If it seems like the engines aren’t indexing your content, it could be one or more of … Continue reading →