GA set up

[honey26]

How to add Google Analytics to my website? Do i need to copy and paste the code onto every page </head>tag or just simply enter the Web ID under configuration section? My website just launched an hour ago, what can i do to increase my page rank? Do I need to register my site with other search engines eg yahoo as I did with google? Pleae help me, thank you.

[Red Devil]

No, in Site / Configuration / Site page (down near the bottom) there is a box where you just enter your Google Analytics number, nothing else.

In your Google Account, have you got Webmaster Tools? If so, upload your Sitemap (xml version - comes as standard with Bluepark). Also, upload your Googlebase feed in the Google Merchant Centre.

Yahoo and other search engines will find you automatically. Google is the big one so make sure you do everything to assist Google in finding you. It will take approx 7-10 days for Google to index your new pages.

If you have an old site, consider redirecting (some of) your old pages to your new ones with 301 redirects. Again, on the Site / Configuration / Site page. See this forum for help on this.

Also, on Site / Configuration / Site there is a 404 error page that you should set to your index.html page which basically catches all 404 errors (page not found) for (old) pages not found if you dont set up any 301 redirects or if you move or delete pages on your new site.

Hope that's enough to start with.

[Dave]

Another good way to get your site / products indexed quickly can be to use twitter. I have heard of people getting their site indexed by Google in a matter of hours from launching by tweeting!

Remember though getting your site listed is only the start and its all about improving your rankings by working on both on and off page seo.

Best of luck with your site.

PS Linking to your site from your signature on here will also help.

[honey26]

upload Sitemap (xml version - comes as standard with Bluepark). how to do this?

[Dave]

As Red says you need to have an account with google webmaster tools first

www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

You can then register your site and tell google about your site and submit your sitemap which will be called sitemap.xml