SEO for Drupal
jeannea - July 30, 2008 - 10:12
I have this new website and it ranked no.1 in Google and Yahoo, after I enabled the XML Sitemap Module the next time I saw the website ranked no.3! I also did the same thing with my other two websites, does XML Sitemap module has got something to do with this?
Inserting a sitemap should
Inserting a sitemap should not lower your rankings -> remember there are lots of factors that search engines take into account.
Use a tool such as http://google.com/webmasters to see how the robots view your site. That may help.
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thanks! I have used the
thanks!
I have used the Google webmasters tools from the very start. what I actually did was use that tools before I enabled the XML Sitemap Module and got ranked n0.1.
I have read something about this,that one of the reasons why google ranked pages on top because of the maturity of the site. So every time the site updates XML Sitemap sends it to the search engines, so Google sees my page as unstable site, cause there are frequent comments everyday. And also lots of other factor. So that's the disadvantage of a new site competing for a six yr. old site. I guess.
Google does NOT favour sites
Google does NOT favour sites that have been unchanged for 6 years, infact notifying google of your updates via pinging and XML sitemaps should help with indexing your site.
However... if the main content on your site is unchanged, and your XML map is telling Google to come and index your site every day, then Google will come and look at your site, notice that the main article is unchanged, and consider you to be a little bit of a nuisance for telling them to come back and expect new content, when all you have is some new comments. You may incur some small penalty for this - possibly Google will start coming to your site a lot less frequently despite what your XML is telling it.
Was your page rank affected at all? Does removing the sitemap for a while help matters?
I did not say that Google is
I did not say that Google is favoring on unchanged sites for 6 yrs. I was referring to a page stability here; I just think that Google thinks that my page isn't stable because of the frequent update.thanks anyway.
I have used this tool that would allow you to search in Google's Data Centers. The results are not all the same, mostly my page ranked no. 1, and on some data centers ranked no.2. I have set my geographical target but my page still ranked no.2. What do you think is the best thing to do to make my page rank no.1 again?
Its got to be the usual SEO
Its got to be the usual SEO rules:
- make sure you have a significant amount of content on your site
- encourage relevant other sites to link to yours
- use a sitemap but ensure the settings accurately represent the update frequency etc.
- review your content regularly, and update when required.
Magnity
http://webdesign.magnity.co.uk
Drupal 5 themes | Drupal 6 themes
thanks!
thanks!
It shouldn't have - if
It shouldn't have - if anything XML Sitemap makes it easier for search engines to know about your content, and when it updates. It's natural for sites to loose pagerank over time - brand new sites (with relavent content) seem to get a temporary boost.
Maybe you can change sitemap
Maybe you can change sitemap priority score, by lowering new updated page, or by ignoring new comments. So Google will not update page only by watching new comments.