Google’s sitemaps console has added another new and much sought after feature, backlinks! It appears as a new tab at the top of the sitemaps page (next to statistics) and shows a breakdown of the number back links for your site by page. If you click the link next to it you get a list of said links. Neat huh?
You can also find who’s linking to a specific page on your site with a nifty little search tool, handy if you have a huge site with hundreds or thousands of pages. All in all a much welcome update form the Google Sitemaps team.
Category Archives: SEO
The best way to mark up images for SEO?
The members of the Cre8asite forums are currently debating the best way to name images for SEO purposes with some interesting theories surfacing. From personal experience I noticed that one of my clients’ sites started to rank higher for British international motor show (and other shows) once I labelled their images with the names of the shows in their alt elements. If the images were also called “british-motorshow-honda-1.jpg” for example I’m sure they’d rank higher too. Something I’ll incorporate into the new version of the site I think…