Clean Code for Google Indexing
You’ll find that during the course of learning about the technology that gives you the blog site platform that powers your site, you will find that you will absorb acronym after confusing acronym.
There is one acronym though that represents the technology in that platform that you’ll want to be familiar with; XML/RSS. What is XML/RSS?. Click that link and you’ll get the full explanation but the point to be made here is that because you have a site coded with XML/RSS, you will have far less problems having Google index your site than your less advanced neighbors. Why? Because Google loves clean code, which is what XML is.
SEW.com explains why:
“Because the Web is so much larger than the index, Google has to make decisions about what to spider and what to index… Google doesn’t spider every page they know about, nor do they add every spidered page to the index…
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How much effort Google decides to put into spidering a site is a secret, but it’s influenced by PageRank. If your site has relatively few pages with high PageRank, they’ll all get into the index no problem, but if you have a large number of pages with low PageRank, you may find that some of them don’t make it into Google’s index.
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All too often when I look at a new site, I am appalled at the sloppy coding. The typical site could be streamlined significantly.
[..] you…need to pay attention to the dirty details of how your pages are put together. If everybody served clean code, Google would be able to index significantly more pages.”
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Not only does Google appreciate clean code, but clean code works with a wider range of browsers, allowing more people to be able to load your site, as well as those who will be accessing your feed via their mobile.
Tags: blog-site-platform, browsers, clean-code, google_index, pagerank, xml, xml_rss