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Free Copy of the Joomla SEO eBook
Written by Steve Burge   
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Joomla SEO eBookFor the next four weeks, we're going to have special competition here at Alledia to get you through those manic Mondays.


Answer a simple question and you can win a free copy of our Joomla SEO eBook. This week's first question:


"What's the easiest way to tell Google what's new on your Joomla! site?"


Please post your answers in the comments section below. The best answer will win a free copy of the Joomla SEO eBook.


The winner and answer will be announced on Wednesday morning US Eastern Time (GMT minus 5).


 

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#1 Sander Potjer 2007-09-17 18:18
By submitting a xml sitemap to the Google Webmaster Tools.
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#2 David Childs 2007-09-17 19:55
The more fresh content you have on your site the more Google will look. ;-)
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#3 Danilo Silva 2007-09-17 21:33
Easiest way to notify Google of new content could be through Feedburner. Content is generated and Google receives a ping.

Index entire site? Sitemap is the fastest and probably most effective.
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#4 Herbert-Jan van Dinther 2007-09-18 00:08
In my expreience running a website feed through FeedBruner and adding a autodiscory sitemap.xml file in your robots.txt file.

This will cover both news or any other items in your Feed setup, complete with new pages trhough the sitemap.xml file.

P.s. nice linkbait Steve :-)
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#5 Klaus Nitsche 2007-09-18 01:31
This advice is for a blog-type Joomla site such as Steve's site here or my own site at http://www.nitsche.org (German).

I agree with both commenters that submitting an XML sitemap is important. My tool of choice is Joomap which does an excellent job of creating both a visual sitemap for your visitors as well as an XML sitemap that you can submit to Google.

Additionally, have a working RSS feed on your site that can be autodiscovered. (Does Firefox show the orange RSS icon in the address bar when you look at your site?)

If you use friendly URLs on your site, make sure your feed outputs friendly URLs as well. (I had to hack core code for this to work.)

Also, whenever you add a new article, ping Google Blogsearch at http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 as well as the other usual ping services such as Technorati etc. There's a brand new small component out there that finally adds ping functionality to Joomla: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3075/Itemid,35/

It might need a bit of hacking - I got a few errors from some of the pre-set services it connects to - but it closes a gap that has existed for too long.

Kind regards,
Zorro
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#6 Brian Teeman 2007-09-18 05:25
Personaly I always find that printing out a hard copy of all new pages on my site and mailing them to Google Inc, USA with a big sticker on the envelope stating "New Content Inside" works ;-)
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#7 Denis Ryabov 2007-09-18 13:10
The right way is to use XML-RPC2 (as described by Zorro). BUT! Almost all weblog ping programs use "weblogUpdates.ping" method instead of "weblogUpdates.extendedPing". "weblogUpdates.ping" says to Google only the fact that site was modified, and "weblogUpdates.extendedPing" says URL of the page to be checked for changes too (see http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/pinging_API.html).
May be I'll add such feature in the forthcoming release of Joomla! Weblog ping component (http://physicist.phpnet.us/category/joomla/extensions/ping/).

Regards
Denis Ryabov
(aka Physicist)
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#8 sean 2007-09-18 14:42
What's the best way to get listed on google's site? Just introduce yourself. Go to http://www.google.com/addurl/ and follow the directions. It's like meeting someone for the first time. Then conversate with google by using an ajax key, submitting rss to feedburner, and using adwords. The more you talk with google, the better they will get to know you. Of course it helps to leave messages for google on your site and use some tags.
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#9 Cory Webb 2007-09-18 16:01
I have Larry Page and Sergey Brin on speed dial. I just call them every time I write an article, and they make sure it gets prime placement in the search results.

If that doesn't work, sometimes I resort to Google voodoo magic.

If that doesn't work, you could try that "ping" stuff the other guys are talking about, but that's not very realistic.
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#10 jansie 2007-09-19 01:31
Submit a sitemap...
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