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October 7th, 2008

If I’ve lost anyone just by the title of this post, hold on. Don’t leave just yet. I can explain.

We’re here to learn how to raise our rankings in the search engines naturally and having this piece of knowledge in our toolbox helps us do this…..And it’s a very simple concept. You see when you add an image to your website, any image you would like to include, you are asked to “Describe” that image in something called an image tag.

Guys this is an incredible opportunity for us to create some natural indexing (Get ranked higher) because we can and SHOULD add images that are actually named after our main keyword! For example we could insert an image and call it our-website-title-graphic.jpg and so on.

In fact, you’ll notice on my ranktothebank.net landing page that I have several images. Even several arrows! Do these SEVERAL arrows help me to emphasize my points? Absolutely. Could I have used bullit points instead? yes. Does choosing to make them arrows instead of bullet points give me an opportunity to name each and every one of those arrows a name that is part of the title of my page? Hmmmm.

The fact is that by choosing arrows, I chose IMAGES and by choosing images I now have the opportunity to add more keyword density to my site and therefore more natural search engine optimization “Horsepower”!

Make sense? If not, shoot me a question so I can clarify. see you next time in our Rank to the Bank Official blog. Best,

What they DON’T tell you in Wordpress for Dummies…

October 10th, 2008

Okay, I admit I read those “For Dummies” books. Truth is, I LOVE ‘em, but for the record, when it comes to wordpress.org, there’s a chapter missing.

I’ve set up a few websites here and there. A few blogs, but I’ve never had a problem getting indexed in Google and Yahoo until I set up my Wordpress.org blog. The one your reading now.

At first it was business as usual. I set up this blog, posted a couple entries, pinged and the following day, vuala. There I am, indexed in the search engines.

……………It lasted about a day, then it totally vanished.

Sure, I could have used Googles Blogger program for a blog. I could use Wordpress.com, But noooooooo. I had to be a big shot! I had to look like I was in the know and use the “Big Shot” blog with all the fancy plug-ins and htlm B.S. that comes with the wordpress.org choice.

In a nutshell, that’s all cool, but without a site map? Useless.

Why Isn’t anyone talking about this?

I went from the top pages of the Google and Yahoo search engines, to being removed from the indexes completely because I didn’t have a site map in the directory of my blog. What’s a site map and who cares?

A site map is a file in a blogs directory that the search engines crawl to make sense of content and without it, a wordpress.org blog gets removed completely from the search engines. That’s the simple explanation and if you don’t have one, click on the link in my blogroll to get it.

Happy Blogging!