Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Tien Soon's Tech Blog] Tell Google about Your Site Updates and Get Listed Quickly: Yes, don’t get surprised that you can now hint the Google’s crawler about your new site, as well as content updates and changes.
[Just when you thought politics couldn’t possibly get more juvenile ::Surf The Mind] Google Sitemap - Verrrry interesting: The documentation says that a sitemap won’t guarantee Google will link all your pages, and they say it won’t speed up the process, but I have sitemapped a new site I made last weekend which hasn’t yet been indexed by Google just to see. The site I made the weekend before is similar in size and structure, and has approximately 90 of its 500 pages indexed after nearly two weeks. If Google’s index picks up more of my new site’s pages than that in its first swing past, I’ll consider it strong evidence that a sitemap does the indexing process some good.
[Code Genie] Google updates papers and webmaster guidelines: link to yours. Submit a sitemap as part of our Google Sitemaps (Beta) project. Google Sitemaps uses...Have lots of time on your hands and want to learn more about how Google works? Read these Publications related to Google technology As alluded to in the recent Webmaster World "Questions
[Darren Barefoot - Vancouver Technologist, Writer, Raconteur, Miscellanist] Google Sitemaps: I’m obviously not going to build that XML file manually (with one node for each page). Google does provide a Sitemap Generator, but it’s Python code meant to be run on my web server. My Python skills are nil, so that route isn’t viable for me either. I expect that there’s a good many ‘webmasters’ (as in, people who design and run websites) who don’t know Python from perl.
[ - Search Engine Journal] Google Using Registrar Data to Locate New Sites: A thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named Google indexing parked domains from Registrar feed, shows a specific example of Google indexing and ranking a parked domain. In that thread members discuss possible methods that Google could have located the domain name. The notion of Google finding the page with the toolbar does not seem likely.
[Webpronews.com] Google Launches AdSense Blog: In order to keep members abreast of upcoming changes and introductions, Google launched a blog called Inside AdWords. The blog is run by the Inside AdWords team, which consists of Andrew, Blake, Vivian, and Jon.
[Webpronews.com] Google URL Points To Blog Search: I recently wrote on a discovery by several bloggers that the Google bot was requesting non-existant files from root directories lately. Many think this indicates that Google has plans to launch their own blog search engine.
[Webpronews.com] Blogs Are Great For Google SEO: By placing keywords in the post title, a powerful search engine ranking boost can be achieved. The posts are often, but not always, archived by post title making good titles very important. With many blog hosts using the titles as part of individual page URLs, some added benefit is also achieved. Be careful to place the keywords early in the title as the URL will often abbreviate the post title.
[Searchenginegenie.com] SEO BLOG: Is sitemap necessary for a site? Search engine ...: Not all search engine crawlers crawl a site deeper and deeper, Some crawlers like yahoo slurp tend to go into a site only to a certain extent, For crawlers like slurp pages shouldnt be buried deeper, A sitemap will combat this problem, When a site map is used pages will come closer to top level and this help yahoo's crawler slurp to reach inner pages too,
[Hamesh.blogspot.com] the Duke of URL: Never having done this before, I have no idea how this will effect my search engine listings and rankings. Prior to the move (completed on August 4, 2004), www.belchfire.net had over 150,000 backlinks on the major search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo, AllTheWeb, etc.). I've redirected the top pages and sections using 301 http response codes, (i.e. http://www.belchfire.net/xpthemes.html redirects to http://themes.belchfire.net/index.php?act=Downloads and sends a 301 'Moved Permanently' response to the client), but until Google and other sites update at the end of the month, I'm holding my breath that I don't lose all the links and listings I've worked so hard to maintain over the last three years.
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