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I have 'Googlebot' coming to
my site every day since a month ago I put up my first news
feed, since then I have put up yet another.
I never used to see
'Googlebot' much before, so it goes to show that if you
want to be noticed by the search engines, you need to put
up a 'news-feed'.
All this re-submitting to
search engines every month nonsense is just that,
nonesense! I don't really think the search engines care
for you to submit to them in the first place, I think that
now they like to find your site on their own. Some pundits
have claimed that nowadays to submit your site at all to
the search engines is counter-productive and you should
not do it. They say that there is much better value in
allowing the search engines to find it via a 'link-back'
from somewhere else.
'News Feeds' are now
providing that 'link back' that every site owner needs. If
you run a web site and you have still not got a 'news
feed' you are being left behind in the race, first to get
listed by search engines and secondly to get a higher
ranking - my sites ranking has gone up very much higher in
Yahoo and Google, since putting up my first news feed, and
guess what, it was within about 36 hours of putting up
that first 'news feed' that Googlebot discovered it was
there! It did not take it long! The same with Yahoo, but a
little bit later, like two days after Googlebot.
'News Feeds' are readable
in a software called a 'News Reader', these are usually
free to download and use right away to look at some of the
feeds that are out there. There are directories for feeds
which you can visit and get some addresses of some
suitable ones to read each day, some of these feeds are
more like 'blogs' in that, they change the contents
several times a day, which gives a feed a 'fresher' feel
to it, and which the search engines like to see. They also
would like to see web site owners re-freshing there web
site contents on at least a daily basis, it does help with
ranking.
It has been slated that the
next incarnations of browser will be 'feed' compatible,
they will be reading 'news feeds' as well as viewing web
sites. When this does happen the 'information revolution'
will be really turned full on! Any one, even you, can set
up a 'news feed', it really is simple, and if you don't
set one up, you are going to be like the only person in
your street who does not have television or radio, you are
going to miss out on the 'information revolution', big
time!
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About
The Author
Tony
Dean runs a web site at:- http://www.ebook-sales.com.
He is author of the ebook "Really
Simple RSS" which is downloadable
from his web site together with a 'feed
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