Comments on: Drummin’ Up Some Link Love #17 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/ The beat of a different blogger Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Garry Conn http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1969 Garry Conn Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:22:07 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1969 Don't do too much... the design is tight! Your blog looks great... lets just see if we can get the Googlebot to give you a big wet kiss! LOL!! Robots.txt is pretty important. Pointing to your sitemap.xml is very important... after that point, you'll have many SEO's offer their opinions about what to do... And in my experience... how you write the robots.txt file is situational. I have had huge success with blocking all access minus my home page and individual post pages... But there are sites too that I allow access to the cats... which I attempt to train the bots to recognize these sections as an equal importance to that of my home page... But all in all... I like to DISALLOW all access minus my home page and post pages... that works amazingly well. I don't have to worry about Google indexing my content and archiving a copy of my cats section, thinking its the post page. When people search Google for something, and they stumble upon a listing of mine... it links direct to my post. Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=blog+authors+organizations You will see my home page and individual post page. Also there is another listing that might catch your eye... and that is Matt Huggins. I thought that was cool to see him there too. He's pretty good at SEO as well. And a super nice guy! Talk to you soon... and I will stop robbing your comment space... LOL!!! Don’t do too much… the design is tight! Your blog looks great… lets just see if we can get the Googlebot to give you a big wet kiss! LOL!!

Robots.txt is pretty important. Pointing to your sitemap.xml is very important… after that point, you’ll have many SEO’s offer their opinions about what to do…

And in my experience… how you write the robots.txt file is situational.

I have had huge success with blocking all access minus my home page and individual post pages…

But there are sites too that I allow access to the cats… which I attempt to train the bots to recognize these sections as an equal importance to that of my home page…

But all in all… I like to DISALLOW all access minus my home page and post pages… that works amazingly well.

I don’t have to worry about Google indexing my content and archiving a copy of my cats section, thinking its the post page.

When people search Google for something, and they stumble upon a listing of mine… it links direct to my post.

Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=blog+authors+organizations

You will see my home page and individual post page. Also there is another listing that might catch your eye… and that is Matt Huggins. I thought that was cool to see him there too. He’s pretty good at SEO as well. And a super nice guy!

Talk to you soon… and I will stop robbing your comment space… LOL!!!

]]> By: Mark http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1966 Mark Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:11:28 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1966 Hey, thanks again! I've been meaning to give my blog a little overhaul. I'm going to add this to the list. ;) Hey, thanks again! I’ve been meaning to give my blog a little overhaul. I’m going to add this to the list. ;)

]]> By: Garry Conn http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1965 Garry Conn Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:08:54 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1965 You are welcome... Got a two second tip for you... Your robots.txt file, add this to it: sitemap: http://www.meandmydrum.com/sitemap.xml which basically tells search bots to search for your content via your sitemap.xml file... which I see is here: http://www.meandmydrum.com/sitemap.xml sorry for off topic... I just noticed it and wanted to help. A lot of debate about what all should be in a robots.txt file... I'll not go into that here... but one thing is for sure... hook that bot baby up with your road map! show it where to go! and get you some robot lovin!!! LOL!!! You are welcome…

Got a two second tip for you…

Your robots.txt file,

add this to it:

sitemap: http://www.meandmydrum.com/sitemap.xml

which basically tells search bots to search for your content via your sitemap.xml file… which I see is here:

http://www.meandmydrum.com/sitemap.xml

sorry for off topic… I just noticed it and wanted to help.

A lot of debate about what all should be in a robots.txt file… I’ll not go into that here… but one thing is for sure… hook that bot baby up with your road map! show it where to go! and get you some robot lovin!!! LOL!!!

]]> By: Mark http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1962 Mark Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:54:40 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1962 Thanks Garry! Thanks Garry!

]]> By: Garry Conn http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 Garry Conn Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:47:19 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1959 Dude, You rock! Thanks for mentioning me in your post. You are a darn fine individual! LOL!!! BTW, your blog is looking great! Dude,

You rock! Thanks for mentioning me in your post. You are a darn fine individual! LOL!!!

BTW, your blog is looking great!

]]> By: Mark http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1958 Mark Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:22:21 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1958 You're very welcome, Tay. :) You’re very welcome, Tay. :)

]]> By: Mark http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1956 Mark Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:29:06 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1956 Welllll, okay. :lol: Welllll, okay. :lol:

]]> By: Bush Mackel http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1955 Bush Mackel Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:04:36 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1955 You SHOULD claim credit! If anyone asks me about it, I'm pointing'em your way. *nod* You SHOULD claim credit! If anyone asks me about it, I’m pointing’em your way. *nod*

]]> By: Tay - Make Money Blogging http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1953 Tay - Make Money Blogging Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:12:45 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1953 Thanks for the mention! Thanks for the mention!

]]> By: Mark http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/comment-page-1/#comment-1951 Mark Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:56:49 +0000 http://www.meandmydrum.com/drummin-up-some-link-love-17/#comment-1951 Hehe...you're welcome! :wink: Hehe…you’re welcome! :wink:

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