Facts About Google

Facts About Google
Google wants to create quality Search Engine results just as badly as you want to acquire high search engine rankings. Lucky for us that Google provides webmasters with plenty of  guidelines and  tips for building a search engine friendly website.

Unfortunately, many webmasters simply aren't listening. Most webmasters seem to be pulling tips and strategies from almost every source but Google itself. However, Google has some of the most beneficial SEO tips to be found online.

Below are just a few of the questions that you can find answered directly by Google directly.

• Does Google index dynamic pages?
  Yes.

Google indexes dynamically generated pages. This includes pages with the following file extensions: .asp, .php, and pages with question marks in their URL's. However, these pages can cause problems for the Googlebot and may be ignored. 

But there is a solution. If you feel that your dynamically generated pages are being ignored by Google, you may want to consider creating static copies of those pages for the Googlebot. Keep in mind, if you choose to do this, be sure to include a robots.txt file that disallows the dynamic pages so that Google doesn't see those pages as duplicate content.

• You can do this by adding the code below to your robots.txt file.
  Disallow: /*?
• Does Google index sites that use ASP?
  Yes.

Google is able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. This includes pdf, asp, jsp, html, shtml, xml, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri, swf, cfm, and php. This is not a complete list, but it gives a good overview. 
 

• Does Google index sites that use Macromedia Flash?
  Yes.

Google indexes pages that use Macromedia Flash. However, Google may have problems indexing Flash pages if the pages are 100% flash. If you are concerned that your Flash content is inhibiting Google's ability to crawl your site, you may want to consider creating HTML copies of those Flash pages. As always, you will need to include a robots.txt file that disallows the Flash pages so that Google does not recognize those pages as duplicate content. 
 

How do I create a Google friendly site?
To help Google find your site and rank your it is the most important thing, it is suggested that you follow their  Webmaster Guidelines of Google.
Here are some of the major SEO guidelines that Google offers to webmasters:

1. Have other relevant sites link to yours.
2. Submit a sitemap (but is not necaserry if you have a good navigation).
3. Submit your site to relevant directories such as the DMOZ and Yahoo. Here is a list of quality paid web directories, where you can submit your site.
4. Make sure each and every page is reachable from at least one static text link on your site, this will give it a good flow.
5. Offer your visitors a site with links that point to the most important parts of your site. If your sitemap is larger than 100 links, you may want to break the sitemap into separate pages, this is also recommended by Google.
6. Keep the links on any given page to a reasonable number (less than 100), I advice you to use only 50 with this tip you will achieve the best results.
7. Check for broken links and correct HTML, the broken links is a very important factor because Google can give you -points for this and deduct it from your PageRank.
8. Create a useful site that is full of information-rich content. Your pages should be written in a way that clearly and accurately describes your content (not copy contant from other websites.
9. Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.
10. Use a text browser such as  Lynx to examine your web site. Most Search Engine spiders see your site in much the same way as Lynx would.
11. Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session Ids or arguments that track their path through the site.
12. Make use of the  robots.txt file which tells crawlers which directories they can or cannot crawl.

I hope this article has helped  you to understand how this whole SEO stuff works. Its not that difficult and if you not have the knowledge you always can contact a SEO company and let them do the work for you.