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Sarcasm hits a painfully true note

Monday, August 20th, 2007

With all of the stats and numbers and reports (oh my!), it\’s sometimes hard to notice the lighter side of things. I just read a blog entry on another site that I thought would help with a ring of truth among webmasters. It\’s about a new trend in making money for websites. I can back [...]

Page Not Found… or was it?

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Recently I was helping a client of mine with her website and noticed some strange things happening as AutoMapIt spidered her site(details excluded to protect the innocent). Many pages were coming up as \’OK\’ while the text on them read something like \”Page not found, please return to the index page and try again\”. Although [...]

Google Sitemaps Do Not Hurt Your Ranking

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

I don\’t think that it is the use of Google sitemaps that hurts sites so badly. Many of the sites that I\’ve seen talking about being reduced are in the mega-numbers… ok, more than 100 pages and usually MUCH more.

10 Steps to a Spider Friendly Website

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

The 10 steps below will ensure that search engine spiders are able to crawl your site when they get there with little effort. The search engines\’ job is to index as many pages as possible from the web and you can ensure their favor by helping them to index your site efficiently and effectively.

Tweak Page – Google Sitemap Settings

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

AutoMapIt has added a manual tweak page for you to adjust individual pages in your sitemap. This page allows you to adjust the priority level of your pages, how often you change those pages, and whether you want individual pages to be included or not. The \’Priority\’ of your page is included on your Google [...]