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Excerpt: Any excuse to show a funny video should not be missed and it comes with an SEO point. The power of funny videos cannot be under-estimated as a source of link bait. Take this video of a cat riding around on a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. It is just a cat riding on a vacuum cleaner. It shouldn’t be funny but it is. For Roomba vacuum cleaners this  kind of publicity cannot be bought.  On its own,  it is a mundane product for cleaning your carpet. Stick a cat on top of it and it becomes something that you might watch…

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Excerpt: With the growth in cheap digital video cameras and the low cost of bandwidth, it cannot have escaped the average searcher that video has become a much more popular medium on the internet. The advent of YouTube and many other video sharing websites have  made this a viable method to drive traffic for many website owners. Google is showing video results  as part of their Universal Search and these results usually appear high in the rankings. With the thumbnail image there is also evidence to suggest that these results are more prominent to the searcher[1]. It is not easy, but sometimes a video…

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Excerpt: One of the best ways to tell Google about your website is to submit a sitemap. It is usually one of the things that your SEO service should do to for your site if it has not been done already. Essentially, it is a list of urls that you want to be crawled by Googlebot. The most common type of sitemap is an XML file. However, Google supports  sitemaps for their other services including: XML Sitemap files for web pages – Use these files to submit all of your web pages (this is the preferred format for web pages). While not…