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So today, I’m going to give you guys a bit of a search engine optimization tip. It might get a bit geeky around here:)

Some of us may heavily rely on search engine traffic and some of us might actually care lees about it. But, whether you actually care about the search engine traffic that you get or not, one SEO factor that you probably should give a damn would be Google Page Rank.

Why?

I’ve heard this questions countless times on walkthroughs, blog posts and forums. Conventional SEO(Search Engine Optimization) tell us that it is really a fake PageRank that is being displayed in the Google Toolbar. I don’t think anyone had come up with hard evidence to prove or deny this, but a lot of conspiracy theorists(including me) support this claim. It it likely that Google develops it’s own ranking of a page, that is not disclosed, through it’s algorithms. A rank other than the one displayed in the Google toolbar.

I’m sorry if the the headline freaked you out:) But really, have you looked at your site through the search engine’s eyes? Yeah, in case you didn’t figure that one out, by spider, i meant - the search engine spider. Yes, you can call it a bot too.

Anyway, the method used by search engines like Google to index your blog/site is to send out a virtual bot/spider to your blog/site. It comes and crawls all over your site content, making it’s way through the links.

Well, it was easy. I threatened Google that I would actually surpass Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo! and I offered $87 bn. Exactly 27 minutes later, they e-mailed my secretariat, and offered me a private bot that would index my personal blog after 1/1000 th of a second after publishing. Pretty nifty ha?

Now, for those of you who actually thought of believing that, you might want to consider backing up one of those “Ron Paul will win by a landslide” polls. No offense! I like Ronnie.

Are you making use of the FREE Toolset that Google is giving away for everyone? If not, it’s high time that you did. It can significantly improve the whole process of your blog’s/web’s integration with the search engine that is responsible for most of the search engine traffic in the world – Google! It’s feature include;

• Extensive use of sitemaps
  

  Now you can directly upload your XML sitemap on Google. Once uploaded, Google checks the sitemap out and indexes the links.