How to make your site Spider-Friendly in 5 steps.

Filed under: Traffic Tips — admin at 7:12 am on Monday, January 18, 2010

How to make your site spider-friendly in 5 steps

These techniques will help search engine spiders index your site better:

1) Include a sitemap that has a link to every page on the site that you want to index (basicly all non-admin, non-members pages)

2) Include at least one static text link to all your main pages on the index page.

3) Never use relative urls, use the full url: eg http://www.yourdomain.com/page.php instead of page.php

4) Goto this page and download the freeware spider Phenix Spider (second file) and spider your page.

5) If you did steps 1 - 3 correctly Phenix Spider should find all of the pages you want to index.

Now this will help search engines index your site, as long as you made good use of META tags and keywords, you should come high up in the rankings, last time I checked I was top on MSN for

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