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Entries Tagged as 'Search Engines'

Google Analytics Upgraded

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Google Analytics has been upgraded with new features.  And YES for free.  The infamous urchin.js  has had a makeover and new eCommerce features have been added.   But even better is the new graphing features.

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Tags: Search Engines · Web Development · Websites

Submitting your site to Search Engines Part 2 Sitemap Submission Revisited

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

As a follow-up to my article on submitting your Sitemap. A few weeks ago Live from Microsoft released it’s webmaster tools.  They provide similar tools to Google Webmaster tools and  Site Explorer from Yahoo. You’ll need a Live Account (I still have mine from my hotmail days) and it’s free to use.

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Tags: Search Engines · Tools and Utilities · Websites

Don’t Trip on the web, Stumble Upon it!

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I have a series of website I visit EVERY day. Woot, Some news sites, a feed aggregator, stats, security logs etc. and I catch myself sinking into a rut of sites. While some I visit do refer me to a new site I usually just skim over. That’s where StumbleUpon comes [...]

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Tags: Search Engines · Websites

robots.txt SciFi book OR Helpful website tool?

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Often when going though web error logs of clients I find that they are usually missing a robots.txt file. Most people don’t see it and it’s one of those things that falls through the cracks in the excitement of building a website.
There are hundreds of ways to build a robots.txt file but for the [...]

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Tags: Search Engines · Web Development

Submitting your site to Search Engines Part 2 Sitemap Submission

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Following on the tails of how to create a sitemap file. Now that you have your site map all ready how do you let search engines know about it? There are a really two ways. One is ‘Passive Submission’ the other ‘Active Submission’.

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Submitting your site to Search Engines Part 1 Sitemap Creation

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Besides word of mouth, paid advertising and linking a way to get a LOT of traffic to your site is through search engines. But it is not really clear at times HOW to submit your site let alone submit it on YOUR terms.

Years ago you used to simply get a link on a page [...]

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