Some SEO questions
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1. How would I create and upload an xml sitemap?
Do I need to have a sitemap on the actual website that people can click to, or is this just submitted to google?
2. If a domain name is not a keyword domain - for example if it's the name of a company - would it make sense to add a keyword to the url of the homepage - like this:
NameOfCompany dotcom/Keyword
3. I understand that having a homepage that has the text in images is not good for search engines to crawl, but how can this be best dealt with if the text in images - this design - is important to keep?
For example, if the text from the About page is repeated in a section on the homepage, would that improve things for seo?
Or will it be ok to have a homepage like this, perhaps with just a small amount of text, if there is text on other pages and the site is in general optimized?
Are there other ways a homepage like this could be improved, for seo? (Keeping the most of the text as images.)
4. Is there a list of directories somewhere that are good to get listed in for seo purposes?
5. For backlinks to be effective, do they need to be from sites that rank high for the keywords that are important for my site?
Or will sites in related industries but not the same industry also be useful for backlinks?
Or will sites with a high page rank that are in totally different industries also be good for seo?
6. When posting on blogs and forums, I guess it makes sense to create good anchor text, but some sites strip out links, leaving just the text... with these sites, if I add in my domain name, is this still seen by Google? Is it still useful?
for example, if I leave the following text as anchor text, and the link itself is stripped out:
Get Great Widgets at Domain dot com
...is that still going to have some positive impact with Google?
or would it be better if I put:
Get Great Widgets at http : // Domain dot com
(that text not actually being a link, because the blog owner has decided to not enable links)
?
7. What's the best way to check what the incoming links are to specific websites?
Is backlinkwatch dotcom the right tool for this?
9. Is there a tool to see how a site ranks for particular keywords?
10. Is there a tool that can effectively analyze a site and indicate seo things that can be improved?
thanks
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