Comments on: My Sitemap Article - The SEO Advantage http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage by John Fitzsimmons Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:37:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: John http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage#comment-13 John Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:45:37 +0000 http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage#comment-13 @ Tricia, A sitemap can in NO WAY replace a PPC campaign. PPC is a contract between you and a search engine. You pay, they send traffic. It’s a business arrangement. It’s very straight forward. The advantage of a sitemap is more subtle. A sitemap is a form of communication with the search engines. It tells the search engine where to find your pages. It can also tell them what keywords you feel are appropriate to those pages. But as with any communication it is up to the other party to listen and act on what is said. This is primarily the difference between SEO (example: sitemap) and sponsored marketing (example: PPC). One is a business arrangement and the other a form of suggestion. Nothing can be guaranteed with in the world of SEO. It’s simply a way to give your self a better chance than a non-optimized competitor. I hope this makes sense. @ Tricia,

A sitemap can in NO WAY replace a PPC campaign. PPC is a contract between you and a search engine. You pay, they send traffic. It’s a business arrangement. It’s very straight forward. The advantage of a sitemap is more subtle.

A sitemap is a form of communication with the search engines. It tells the search engine where to find your pages. It can also tell them what keywords you feel are appropriate to those pages. But as with any communication it is up to the other party to listen and act on what is said. This is primarily the difference between SEO (example: sitemap) and sponsored marketing (example: PPC). One is a business arrangement and the other a form of suggestion.

Nothing can be guaranteed with in the world of SEO. It’s simply a way to give your self a better chance than a non-optimized competitor.

I hope this makes sense.

]]> By: Tricia http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage#comment-12 Tricia Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:49:57 +0000 http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage#comment-12 I, too, read your article on the advantage of sitemaps. I already do PPC on google, yahoo and kanoodle. If I use a sitemap do I need to continue to pay for the higher rankings? Thanks, Tricia I, too, read your article on the advantage of sitemaps. I already do PPC on google, yahoo and kanoodle. If I use a sitemap do I need to continue to pay for the higher rankings?

Thanks,
Tricia

]]> By: John http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage#comment-11 John Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:39:26 +0000 http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage#comment-11 @ Alan, try... site:newgrip.com @ Alan, try…

site:newgrip.com

]]> By: Alan Trombetta http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage#comment-10 Alan Trombetta Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:22:04 +0000 http://www.johnfitzsimmons.com/search-engine-optimization/my-sitemap-article-the-seo-advantage#comment-10 Hello John, I read your excellent article on Sitemaps. My sitemaps works well and I only know this from the many high rankings I receive on Google. But when I took your advice to find out more, by entering my URL in Google, all I got was a page error? What could be wrong? I tried all of these combinations.... site:newgrip.com/index.html site:www.newgrip.com/index.html site:www.newgrip.com No matter what I tried all I got was an error message. Alan Trombetta owner and product developer www.NewGrip.com Let Grips take the punishment - not your hands or wrists 1-800-213-0450 Pacific Time (Portland, OR) Hello John,

I read your excellent article on Sitemaps.

My sitemaps works well and I only know this from the many high rankings
I receive on Google.

But when I took your advice to find out more, by entering my URL in
Google, all I got was a page error?

What could be wrong?

I tried all of these combinations….

site:newgrip.com/index.html

site:www.newgrip.com/index.html

site:www.newgrip.com

No matter what I tried all I got was an error message.

Alan Trombetta
owner and product developer
www.NewGrip.com
Let Grips take the punishment - not your hands or wrists
1-800-213-0450 Pacific Time (Portland, OR)

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