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One of the key Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies for web sites is to have high quality sitemaps helping search engines to discover and access all relevant content posted on that web site. Sitemaps offer this really simple way for site owners to share information with every search engine about the content they have on their site instead of having to rely solely on crawling algorithms (ie: crawlers, robots) to find it.

The Sitemaps protocol defined atwww.sitemaps.org, is a now widely supported. Often web sites and some Content Management Systems (CMSs) offers sitemaps by default or as an option. Bing even offers an open source server-side technology,Bing XML Sitemap Plugin, for websites running on Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server, as well as Apache HTTP Server.

If you dont have a sitemap yet, we recommend first that you explore if your web siteor your CMS can manage this, or install a sitemap plugin.

If you have to, or want to, develop your own sitemaps, we suggest the following best practices:

Interestingly some sites these days, are large really large with millions to billions of URLs. Sitemap index files or sitemap files can link up to 50,000 links, so with one sitemap index file, you can list 50,000 x 50,000 links = 2,500,000,000 links. If you have more than 2.5 Billion linksthink first if you really need so many links on your site. In general search engines will not crawl and index all of that. Its highly preferable that you link only to the most relevant web pages to make sure that at least these relevant web pages are discovered, crawled and indexed. Just in case, if you have more than 2.5 billion links, you can use 2 sitemap index files, or you can use a sitemap index file linking to sitemap index files offering now up to 125 trillion links: so far thats still definitely more than the number of fake profiles on some social sites, so youll be covered.

The main problem with extra-large sitemaps is that search engines are often not able to discover all links in them as it takes time to download all these sitemaps each day. Search engines cannot download thousands of sitemaps in a few seconds or minutes to avoid over crawling web sites; the total size of sitemap XML files can reach more than 100 Giga-Bytes. Between the time we download the sitemaps index file to discover sitemaps files URLs, and the time we downloaded these sitemap files, these sitemaps may have expired or be over-written. Additionally search engines dont download sitemaps at specific time of the day; they are so often not in sync with web sites sitemaps generation process. Having fixed names for sitemaps files does not often solve the issue as files, and so URLs listed, can be overwritten during the download process.

To mitigate these issues, a best practice to help ensure that search engines discover all the links of your very large web site is that you manage two sets of sitemaps files: update sitemap set A on day one, update sitemap set B on day two, and continue iterating between A and B. Use a sitemap index file to link to Sitemaps A and Sitemaps B or have 2 sitemap index files one for A and one for B. This method will give enough time (24 hours) for search engines to download a set of sitemaps not modified and so will help ensure that search engines have discovered all your sites URLs in the past 24 to 48 hours.

This post originally appeared on Bing Webmaster Blog, and is re-published with permission. Featured Image: Raywoo via Shutterstock

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Sitemaps Best Practices Including Large Web Sites

Houston, TX (PRWEB) August 28, 2014

The JM Internet Group, the leader in online SEO training, is proud to announce that Jason McDonald will be conducting an intensive SEO training course for photographers in Houston, Texas, on August 19, 2014, and Austin, Texas, on August 20, 2014. Both sessions will focus on the special SEO needs of photographers, but both are open to the general public at reasonable rates.

SEO, of course, is the art and science of getting a company to the top of Google and Bing, explained Jason McDonald, director of the JM Internet Group. Photographers have special needs with respect to local SEO and image optimization, and for many photographers Google and Bing have become primary sources of new business. These workshops in Texas will be SEO Crash Courses in Houston and Austin for photographers.

For more information please visit http://www.jm-seo.org/2014/08/houston-and-austin-seo-training/.

SEO Training in Houston: Workshop Agenda

The workshop is divided into three separate sessions. Session #1 will explain the basics of search engine optimization, with a keen eye to the special needs of photographers. Session #2 will focus on local SEO an issue of importance to both photographers and any local business in Houston or Austin, Texas. Session #2 will also explain Yelp optimization issues. Session #3 will focus on image optimization, namely how to get images to appear in Google searches and how to use those images for not only SEO but as a tool to attract new business. Though focused on the needs of photographers, any Texas business that has an interest in SEO will benefit from these sessions.

About JM Internet Group

The JM Internet Group provides SEO, Social Media Marketing, and Google AdWords training and courses for busy marketers and businesspeople. Online search engine optimization training helps explain keywords, page tags, link building strategies and other techniques needed to climb to the top of search engine rankings for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The teaching methodology is hands on, with live examples and discussions, taught from the convenience of each students computer.

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JM Internet Group, Media Relations Web. http://www.jm-seo.org/ Email. jm.internetgroup(at)gmail(dot)com Tel. +1-510-713-2150

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Ill fill you in on a little secret . . . you dont need to spend a lot of money to drive quality, organic traffic to your website.

In a two-year period at KISSmetrics, weve brought more than 2 million visitors to the site, and it cost us less than $29,000 to do it. How? By hacking our SEO strategy.

SEO can be intimidating for your time-crunched, cash-strapped startup, especially when competing against huge brands with deep pockets. But it is actually one of the most efficient ways to get your initial traffic and customers, if you know where to invest your time and money.

Heres what I recommend:

SEO is all about content. When it comes right down to it, the most important thing you can do for your SEO is to concern yourself with content, content, content.

Before you even launch, hire a copywriter to write 50 to 100 blog posts. Then, drip them out every other day on your blog. Keep up the content output as your blog grows and expands. Build a library of content that is bigger than any other collection of content in your niche. If you have a few extra minutes in a day, write an article. Live, eat, breathe, sleep, and create content.

Unleash content like your business depends upon it . . . because it does.

Ive started more than one successful startup, and if I had to attribute my success to one thing it would be content.

Imagine you just finished your shiny new website and youre about to reveal your new business to the world. But then on opening night Google isnt indexing your site.

You utter every curse word in every known language, call upon expensive consultants, and assemble a March on Mountain View. Whats going on? In code, it looks like this:

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Lehi, Utah (PRWEB) August 27, 2014

The top SEO agencies are presented on 10 Best SEO along with those firms that got special mentions. 10 Best SEO determines the best SEO companies by collecting data and analyzing it against criteria that measures both the qualitative and quantitative performance of the companies. Its Analytic Review Algorithm ranks companies on client research, online research, reviews, previous accolades, traffic, SEO rankings and proprietary analytics among many other things.

The people behind 10 Best SEO have years of experience in multiple marketing fields including PPC, social media marketing, web reputation and SEO. They judge the performance of other companies to see how well they position their clients to match search engine queries relevant to their businesses. This is known as search engine optimization or SEO, and it is a powerful marketing tactic as well as an extremely competitive one.

Boostability took the number one spot after being recognized for its link building and ability to capture target markets on social media platforms. Both of these activities are crucial to ranking well with search engines and earned the company first place among top SEO agencies.

Currently managing thousands of clients, the winning firm has a management team with over 40 years of internet marketing experience among its members. The core services of the company are helping small and local businesses gain online search visibility at cost effective rates. This includes SEO for small business websites, local search optimization and SEO solutions for media, newspaper and phone book partners in need of an SEO service for their clients.

Started in January 2009, the company pursued the goal of serving the small business market with affordable and effective SEO services.

The August 2014 award for best search engine optimization firm indicates that the methods and technology of the company are succeeding for its clients. The company operates from Lehi, Utah and can be reached for comment at its website or by calling 800-261-1537.

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