Sitemaps are used to tell the search engines about pages on your website that may not otherwise be discovered by the search engines. Generally there are two types of Sitemaps – a HTML Sitemap or a XML Sitemap. Both types will contain a list of the URL’s that lead to pages within your website.
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What I’m about to confess is going to sound awfully girly -

- But one of my favorite quotes comes from an episode of “Sex and the City.”

Specifically, it’s the episode where Carrie has relationship woes with her boyfriend du jour. I know, I know, that happened in every episode! But this episode was unique because Carrie’s computer crashed. Towards the end – once her computer was fixed and her relationship was back on track – she said, “The best we can do is breathe and reboot.”
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In case you missed it, according to data from Comscore, Bing has become the second most popular search engine in the world, surpassing perennial bridesmaid Yahoo, which falls to #3.

Bing, which launched June 3, 2009, amid much fanfare, and a 8.4 percent search engine market share, now accounts for 15.1 percent of searches, compared to 14.5 percent for Yahoo.
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A website’s title tags are very important for several reasons:

1) The title tag shows up in search results as the blue link, and a good one helps the site get more clicks and visitors from search results.

2) Title tags are a crucial SEO element that can help the website show up higher when people search for the words in it.

3) Title tags show up when web pages are shared on social media sites like Facebook. This is important because social media mentions are now a ranking factor in Google search results.
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I’ve been involved in sales and marketing for over twenty years – half my adúlt life. And sometimes I still get confused when I browse the Internet and visit websites searching for information, or to make a purchase. I’m absolutely amazed at how complicated some marketers make doing business on the internet.
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