Re: [Google Maps API v3] Re: Search engine (google in this case) optimisation

2011-04-09 Thread Niklas Rosencrantz
How to increase pagerank is a very interesting question. I generate a sitemap that appears to work and managed to get PageRank 3 then trying to increase PageRank from other activities than a sitemap is a challenge. Niklas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: [Google Maps API v3] Re: Search engine (google in this case) optimisation

2011-04-09 Thread Barry Hunter
Sitemaps are a useful tool to help search engines find their way into your site. But they are not enough alone. The pages need good links and navigation between them. Google's ranking is in part based on the number of links to a page, so a page only in sitemap won't do well. But also google isn't

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Search engine (google in this case) optimisation

2011-04-09 Thread Esa
Barry's idea is brilliant but Sitemap is the officially recommended practice. That is an XML file for crawlers. "Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover" http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184&from=40318&rd=1 G

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Search engine (google in this case) optimisation

2011-04-09 Thread sgiddings
You raise an important point here Barry. However, I am not aiming for accessibility here (at least not at the moment). So, what can I do short of creating a parallel, non map, site containing all my data - which would rather defeat the purpose of what I have done upto now ? On Apr 9, 1:45 am, Bar

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Search engine (google in this case) optimisation

2011-04-08 Thread Esa
A year and half ago there was an announcement that Google will start indexing contents of v2 api map pages via javascript. http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/11/finding-mashups-needle-in-haystack.html Pamela even wrote a FAQ about that http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/web/m