I picked up an old issue of Wired (cheap 2nd hand version) - a popular tech magazine that keeps up the latest in web trends. One of the great nugget I read was how to increase the number of pageviews of your blog - according to Brian Lam who is editor of Gizmodo - a very popular online gadget Top 100 blog.

All website owners want high search engine rankings to list their site on top of search engines search result pages. There are hundreds of sources providing information about search engine optimization to drive more site traffic. Google has just made it simpler to master these fundamental SEO techniques. Finally no more guesswork and exact confirmation on what Google looks out for!

In a follow-up to my last 2 posts relating to Google Webmaster Tools, this has to be one of the most important SEO guide to have.

This is the second part of getting your website indexed. After you completed the website verification process, it is time to generate a sitemap to be submitted. A sitemap is essentially a .xml file which has the following key information: links present in your website and information on how often your website is updated.

When you launch a new business online, there are a few things that you need to plan first. These includes keyword targeting, a traffic generation plan and link-building strategies. But before all that, you need get in the game first. This means you need to let the major search engines find and index your websites in their servers. Indexing means the spiders (GoogleBot, MSN Bot and Yahoo Crawler) will come (crawl) and store a copy (or cache) of your website. Then you can be sure that least Google knows that your website exists.