Useful tools of Yahoo! Sitemap
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Commonly known as a Web browser, one example is the HTTP on the Internet, a website refers to a Web pages compilation that typically can be accessed through a software package. Essentially these pages documents that are in the HTML or XHTML format, Hyper Text Markup Language, are accessed from the website’s homepage or a ‘common root URL’. The Internet user or visitor from this homepage, can look or browse through the entire website either with the URLs of the different web pages or the use of the hyperlinks.
Viewed on computers and other devices that are capable of connecting with the Internet, depending on their services or their use that they offer websites can be grouped into numerous types. Include the following some of them :
· Business site, promotes a service or a business.
· Archive site, protects and maintains electronic contents to the point of extinction that are valuable.
· Community site, allows people with similar and related interests to communicate with each other.
· eCommerce or Commerce site, offers goods for sale.
· Development site, provides sources and data that are related to web design and software development, among others.
· Database site, displays and searches a particular database’s content.
· Download site, allows users to download electronic contents, such as software and game demos.
· Directory site, contains wide ranging contents that are usually divided into categories and subcategories.
· Game site, provides a ‘playground’ where people meet and play.
· News site, distributes or dispenses commentaries and news.
· Information site, contains content or data that have the sole purpose of informing visitors.
· Pornography site, shows pornographic images and videos.
· Shock site, shows other materials or images that aim to offend viewers.
· Search engine site, provides serves and general information as a ‘gateway’ for other resources and sites.
· Vanity site, a personal site that is maintained or run by a small group or an individual, the contents of which can be of any information that the site owner wishes to include.
· Wiki site, allows users to collaboratively edit the contents.
· Blogs or blogsite or weblog, registers posts online diaries or online readings or discussion forums.
Perhaps Yahoo! is the most famous example of a very large website. Yahoo! is a mixture of the different types of sites, the most widely-used website and popular. It is a search engine and a directory site, among others. The Yahoo! site map, because of the enormous amount of information that it contains, is an extremely useful feature in the Yahoo! website.
A site map is a web page that lists the entire pages on a web site. Site maps can be in textual or visual form because of organized in a hierarchical fashion, an image or a diagram.
As a blueprint for the Yahoo! website, the Yahoo! site map serves. The Yahoo! sitemap makes it easier for users or visitors, similar to a book’s Table of Contents, to find specific pages or information on the Yahoo! web site without having to browse many pages. It because the site map gives a visual outline or an overview of the Yahoo! web site, with each location provided with active links to enable the user to directly move to a specific location.
The Yahoo! site map, in addition, allows web developers to put out links from across their sites, making it easier for engine spiders or search engine robots to find these pages. This feature can be considered a valuable tool for online marketers, because the Yahoo! site map improves the search engine optimization of a site, whose aim is to stimulate and direct traffic to their web sites.
The Yahoo! site map can only give you the ‘basics’. An effective web marketing strategy that promotes your web site is also very much needed, because it is important for web marketers to ‘rank high’ on main search engines. Some search engine strategies to consider listed below are:
1. Write at the top of your webpage a descriptive page title that avoids ‘filler’ words like “and” or “the”.
2. Along with your business name, incorporate descriptive keywords on your home page. This is called “keyword prominence”.
3. At the top of the web page, include a Description Meta Tag. This refers to the sentences that describe the content of your web page. Usually 1 or 2 lines, with a maximum of around 255 characters
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Written by wowo on March 11, 2008 – 8:51 pm - Posted in About Sitemap, Blogging | No Comments »
