SEO BizNiche » Website http://seobizniche.com Search Engine Optimization Advice from the Experts Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Can You Get a Website Indexed with No Links and XML Sitemaps? http://seobizniche.com/google/can-you-get-a-website-indexed-with-no-links-and-xml-sitemaps/ http://seobizniche.com/google/can-you-get-a-website-indexed-with-no-links-and-xml-sitemaps/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:35:05 +0000 SEOBizNiche http://seobizniche.com/general/can-you-get-a-website-indexed-with-no-links-and-xml-sitemaps/ This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links.Since some piano player in New Jersey owns the domain MichaelGray.com I had a few options but the best was to go with my middle initial and byt the domain MichaelAGray.com. Since Im all about wordpress as a CMS I put the files up, put up my theme of choice thesis, tweaked it with the thesis reputation skin, and installed the XML Sitemaps plugin. I set it up to ping all of the search engines as shown below:xml-sitemap.png

Within 4 days the homepage for the domain was showing in Bing and Google as shown below (yahoo just didnt love me enough)Im a big advocate of using sitemaps, and I think this demonstrates their effectiveness. Unless you have a really small site or really good site architecture, chances are some parts of your website arent as exposed, or well linked as others, and this helps you spoon feed the search engines your content insuring better crawling.

Thats not to say you should use sitemaps and not worry about spiders being able to crawl, because internal anchor text can play a huge role in SEO. However use on XML sitemaps as a redundant backup plan to help make sure you fully crawled and indexed.

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This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.

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