Interesting post from Rand Fishkin (seomoz.org) :   http://www.seomoz.org/blog/diagrams-for-solving-crawl-priority-indexation-issues

1. If you’re launching a new site, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit 2. Have a GREAT product. All of the marketing/advertising in the world will do you NO good if your product is sub par. 3. Is your product groundbreaking? Will you leave individuals with no choice but to talk about your product or service? 4. Use keywords in your image alt tags. 5. Make sure to include appropriate keywords in your title tag, search engines show more prominence or importance to keywords here. [More]

Google Sitemaps allows the webmaster to help Google index their pages optimally. The GSiteCrawler will help you generate the best Google Sitemap file for your website. The GSiteCrawler uses different ways to find all   the pages in your website and can generate all sorts of files, statistics and more. The sitemaps file format has lately been also adapted by Yahoo! - even MSN/Live.com is pledging it’s support.   http://www.gsitecrawler.com/

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