Google has introduced a new Sitemap Generator for webmasters to help them create better sitemap files. Google had previously introduced one back in 2005, and watched many other people make their own, but this one is different they say. read more

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Submitting sitemaps to Google has been simplified, the company announced this morning. Webmasters will no longer have to specify which type of sitemap they are submitting. Google will determine the filetype for them. Google still prefers webmasters use Google Webmaster Tools for submission, though, but they also accept files listed in the robots.txt file, or submitted via the HTTP ping method. read more

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Google has come up with another nice webmaster tool.read more

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According to Google Webmaster Central Blog, after numerous requests from Webmasters to integrate Webmaster Tools for third-parties, Google has finally released Webmaster Tools API, a tool that integrates API (Application Programming Interface) into Webmaster Tools. read more

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According to Search Engine Watch, Google has changed the way it defines 'Doorway Pages'.read more

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The Google News Team has an interesting blog post about the "truths and myths" of how Google includes and ranks articles.Some of the facts that stand out include "Having an image next to your article improves your ranking MYTH. While having a good image with your article does improve your chance to get your picture shown, it has no impact on the ranking of the article itself."read more

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One sitemap may now support multiple sites on different hosts thanks to a new addition to the Sitemaps protocol. read more

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A couple of days back Google's Susan Moskwa & Trevor Foucher published FAQs about sitemaps, see: Google's FAQs on Sitemaps. The FAQs followed from their experience at SES Chicago 2007. read more

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Susan Moskwa and Trever Voucher from Google's Webmaster Tools Team published a synopsis of the questions they received at Chicago's recent Search Engine Strategies Conference. If you have ever had a question about Google Sitemaps and the effect they may or may not have on your site, this is a helpful read.Get the answers to the following questions:read more

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Google has been a sitemaps backer for some time, and they provided some answers to questions webmasters asked during SES Chicago last month. read more

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A free tool from British-based Microsoft MVP Marc Liron helps webmasters bash out video sitemaps suitable for Google's indexing. read more

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While many are using this time to reminisce about the year that was, here's a simple SEO check list for those of you that are already looking for bigger and better SEO results in 2008. If more free traffic from the search engines is your new year's resolution - then commit to these essentials:1. Stop Stabbing in the Dark - Keyword Intelligence read more

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Google will make use of an extension to the Sitemaps protocol to do a better job of indexing the videos people publish. read more

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Content analysis and Sitemap detail debuted as new features available on Google's Webmaster Central. read more

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Search engines pay attention to some tags, and none to others. Remember when the 'keywords' meta tag mattered? Ah, the good old days. read more

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Webmasters can face a number of issues, and may hope that sitemaps can cure the bulk of them.  So a panel at SES Chicago weighed sitemaps’ pros and cons. read more

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Most SEO’s will advise you to buy an existing site/domain (lots of age benefit), but there are times when you need to start from scratch with a fresh domain. It can sometimes take a couple of weeks to get a new domain indexed by Google (even longer to start ranking!). In order to speed up the process of getting your site indexed quickly, even in 24 hours, follow the steps outlined below: 1) Create 5 pages of content Skip the “under construction” page and write several pages of real content, at least a few paragraphs.read more

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Go Daddy and Google collaborate to offer easy access to Webmaster Tools, informs the Google Webmaster Central Blog. read more

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Yesterday, Yahoo announced that it’s now easier to submit your site to Yahoo Site Explorer: all you have to do is have a valid sitemap.xml file on your site. read more

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The robots.txt analysis tool at Google Webmaster Central received some much-needed updating, and should be more effective for webmasters today. read more

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OK, so while working on a project to build a multi-thousand page series of sitemaps for our properties here at work, I found this resource: http://www.sitemaps.org/ The site is good at one thing,and one thing only - sharing information about sitemaps. Many folks today see them as a sort of Holy Grail. A way to magically improve search rankings, and it’s easy to see why.read more

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At Search Engine Strategies New York it was announced that you can now have your sitemap automatically discovered by configuring it in your Robots.txt file. It is simple and easy to do, you’ll just need to know the URL or web address of your sitemap.read more

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Major search engines Ask, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo jointly announced at SES New York their support of a new feature that makes sitemaps more valuable to webmasters. read more

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Dear Kalena... I have two sites; One www.alpine-property.com is top of Google rankings for all my chosen keywords, it has no frames, daily updated content and lots of inbound links, so not surprising. read more

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A handful (ok, two handfuls) of tactics could separate the lackluster domain from the one that enables its owner to brag about business. read more

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Rand Fishkin recently posted an interesting concept on his SEOmoz.org blog about sitemaps. For those of you keeping score at home, a sitemap is a document (typically xml) that sits on your server and helps search engine spiders crawl and index your site. Sounds great, right? Maybe… maybe not. Rand theorizes these sitemaps may actually be bad for your SEO efforts. read more

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Well, I just finished delivering a presentation for the Madison, Wisconsin Advertising Federation. read more

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If you follow search engine news you know that the major search engines are fighting tooth and nail for market share. read more

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As we reported last week, Google, Yahoo! and MSN have come together to follow an uniform Sitemaps protocol. read more

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Last week, Google announced the end of some of its services, and among them was the ability for users to upload videos to Google Video. They said they would be refocusing their attention on building a more comprehensive video search engine, and why not? They've already got YouTube.read more

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