http://www.automapit.com/news Keep your website healthy Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:51:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We all know that keywords are the focus of any SEO effort. Keywords are searched for by people looking to make purchases online. When your site comes up in Google, they become your customers! This is a simple process to understand, but how do you get your site listed on ... http://www.automapit.com/news/the-wonder-wheel-of-googles-relations-56.html Some comments by Amit Singhal of Google give us an interesting look into how Google calculates the 'importance' of Twitter messages (also called tweets) when determining ranking positions. An article quoting Amit at http://www.technologyreview.com/web/24353/page1 mentions several factors that are very similar to 'normal' search ranking criteria for webpages with a ... http://www.automapit.com/news/real-time-ranking-factors-revealed-46.html A recently published study looked at 500 Million URLs that were seen both by sitemaps and using 'natural discovery' methods. Of this sample of URLs, the study revealed that 77% of the URLs were first seen by Google on a sitemap! http://www2009.eprints.org/100/1/p991.pdf To put this as simple as possible... use sitemaps if ... http://www.automapit.com/news/new-study-proves-sitemaps-are-better-than-no-sitemaps-38.html Your sitemaps will now be delivered in record time with new web crawlers from AutoMapIt. The web crawlers are responsible for gathering information on your website and then turning it into critical information that you need to know about your website. You've researched your keywords, you've managed to obtain some ... http://www.automapit.com/news/crawl-around-the-world-in-14-days-33.html Cross Domain sitemaps are located on one domain, but mapping a different domain. For example, you may decide to place your sitemaps from xyz.com over at abc.com. In the past, this was not allowed and would generate an error. This news means BIG things for AutoMapIt customers since FTP is no ... http://www.automapit.com/news/cross-domain-sitemaps-what-does-it-all-mean-29.html AutoMapIt now uses If-Modified-Since headers with the crawlers. What this means for you is that pages that haven't been updated since the last time this system crawled your website won't need to be loaded again. This saves bandwidth and means faster crawls of your website. Google has used these headers when ... http://www.automapit.com/news/automapit-crawlers-support-last-modified-headers-by-using-if-modified-since-26.html I just read a great blog post about Defensible websites which talks about certain metrics for a websites success. I thought that a lot more people could benefit from this understanding so I figured I'd share it with you! The basic idea is that you try to remove single points of ... http://www.automapit.com/news/defensible-websites-help-ensure-your-success-more-than-seo-alone-23.html Long time subscribers of AutoMapIt have seen a few of the tools that I provide go into the mainstream search engines in one way or another. I like to think of it as a testament to my staying a step or two ahead of the search engines and designing tools ... http://www.automapit.com/news/automapit-scores-another-you-saw-it-here-first-for-dynamic-url-rewriting-22.html 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 ... http://www.automapit.com/news/sarcasm-hits-a-painfully-true-note-21.html AutoMapIt has always been about unparalleled service. I have just added live support chat from Help Center Live to the site that will help out on specific pages that usually require some form of assistance. This is in addition to the email support, a help-desk ticketing system, and the forums ... http://www.automapit.com/news/live-help-support-system-20.html