Magento is a great e-commerce CMS, with tons of incredible possibilities.
URL Rewriting allows a dynamic website to have clean and relevant URL addresses.
In the next article, we'll see what is URL rewriting for, and how to put it in function on your local apache server.
Website Ranking is a step that becomes more and more important during the creation processus of a website.
Here is a list, ordered by importance, of factors that can influence your ranking. You must not forget anything from this list.
Google Analytics is a free service of Google, which allows you to learn a lot of important information about visitors of your website. If you don't know it yet, you must get into it as soon as possible!
A Google Sitemap is a very important element for ranking of your website : it is used to tell Google which pages it must include in his engine. It also helps your new pages to be ranked quicker, and to be sure that all your relevant content is indexed.
A Sitemap, it's basically a map of your website (I hope you already guessed it); a tree of pages in which the level of importance of certain pages over some other pages is cleary visible.
The PageRank is a rate of popularity of your website in Google. The PageRank has no (or almost no) influence on your ranking, but your ranking has an influence on your PageRank.
