WebProNews Web Search Jayde:   Advertise on blogs to generate buzz, drive traffic and more SES: Chicago SES: Late Night With Danny Sullivan SES: SMO Is SEO With PR SES: Wednesday Morning Sessions - Analytics SES: Maximizing Social Search SES: Mobilize Your Site For Mobile Search SES: Duplicate Content and Multiple Site Issues SES: Jason Calacanis Does The Keynote SES: Your Video Wants A Meta Tag SES: Advertising on Social Media SES Session: Fun With Dynamic Sites SES Session: Bulk Submit 2.0 Click Fraud, Organized Crime And Terrorism SES: Wednesday Morning Sessions - Analytics Danny's New Empire » Subscribe to the WebProNews Top News Feed WebProNews Video Blog SES: A Deeper Look Into AskCity Dissecting the Value of PageRank The Generative Nature of Online Video Marketing Thursday December 07, 2006 Sitemaps.org, born of historic collaboration between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, intends to simplify the tenuous endeavor of directing search engines to your site's relevant content. Thus, sitemaps are garnering renewed focus and while the forge is still hot, Vanessa Fox helps clear the smoke. Who better to press a key member of Google Sitemaps for answers than Rand Fishkin, SEO expert from SEOmoz.org. Vanessa Fox of Google sits down for a chat with WebProNews and clears up the confusion surrounding Google's Sitemaps and Page Rank. View the video at WebProNews. View All Videos View the video in a bigger format Advertise on blogs to generate buzz, drive traffic and more Does a duplicate content filter induce duplicate content penalties? What about format preference? Is XML king or can a simple text file suffice? What the hell is OAI-PMH? Given some recent dialog on sitemaps versus other SEO methods, Vanessa reiterates the intent of a sitemap: it should be merely one part of the strategy. "[Google] Sitemaps doesn't impact your ranking at all... it helps with the very first obstacle of learning about all of your pages." It's about crawling, thus it doesn't preclude code optimization, site organization or other sensible methods in SEO. It may indirectly allow for better ranking but won't provide it. Fox also addresses common concerns such as code to text ratio, priority settings and Google Toolbar's pagerank reports versus Google Webmaster Tool's. "[Webmaster Tools] is a little more accurate, a little more up-to-date... the Toolbar pageranking doesn't get updated quite as often, of course it's only one factor. I feel like people get really hung-up on the Toolbar pagerank. People probably spend a little more energy on it than they need to." Other Formats: MP4 »» View the video »» Comment at WPN Subscribe to our Newsfeed About the Author: The WebProNews staff is at the SES: Chicago conference bring you the latest information from around the conference.

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