Seth & Sitemaps

June 30th, 2006

In an effort to help the many search engine optimisers who are pulling their hair out with indexing issues. I’d bring to light a little tip that may help, albeit very disputed. As many of you know there have been major fluctuations in SERPs and the frequency of indexed pages in Google, even though there are little/no changes on the site. I’m not offering a silver bullet, however I - and many others have experienced a degree of success by removing the Google Sitemap present on our site. I realise this is in direct conflict to the statement Matt Cutt’s made regarding sitemaps being ruled out but I am simply looking at results here. It worked for me, I hope it works for you. Lastly on SEO said Hobbies seems to be solidified at #1 position in Google and #1 in MSN which we’re quite happy with.

This last few weeks I came over two blogs which if you’re reading this, you may find interesting.

Stick Rattling An excellent blog covering all aspects of marketing with incredibly astute commentary on various marketing campaigns that are running globally.

Seth Godin’s Blog I recently watched a Google video of Seth Godin speaking at Googleplex about his work and Google. Seth, for me is a master of translating common sense into today’s mass media. Absolutely gripping commentary on society in general, even if you’re not into marketing that much.