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Insight into MSN Webmaster Portal

pittfall — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:53:59 +0000

Last week MSN announced Webmaster Portal should be available in late fall and offered a chance to apply to test out the beta and provide feedback. I am not aware that the beta has actually started, however, I was sent an email to register for the beta. It was a simple form requesting information about [...]

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Insight into MSN Webmaster Portal

Sitemaps.org Announces Autodiscovery Protocol

pittfall — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:58:54 +0000

In four separate announcements today from Ask, Google, MSN and Yahoo have announced a new robots.txt protocol for a sitemap autodiscovery on Sitemaps.org. Ask.com – The first bit of news is that Ask.com has joined their counterparts in the development of Sitemaps.org. Ask.com is now supporting submission of Sitemaps via http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=SitemapUrl. We are excited about [...]

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Sitemaps.org Announces Autodiscovery Protocol

Be Careful Where You Click

pittfall — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:54:31 +0000

This week, the Yahoo Search Blog announced new additions to SiteExplorer. Among new extras like a badge for your site, Yahoo has added a few useful and one powerful additions: 1. Detailed Authentication Errors 2. Site Authentication Using META Tags 3. Delete URLs The most powerful, by far, is the Delete URLs: “For your authenticated [...]

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Be Careful Where You Click

Sitemaps for Google News

pittfall — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:58:00 +0000

Sitemaps for Google News Along with some interesting news surrounding the Google Sitemaps project earlier this week (announcing the cooperation with Yahoo and MSN), Google has taken Sitemaps to another level: Sitemaps for Google News for news in English. Now, English-language publishers who are currently included in Google News will be able to use their [...]

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Sitemaps for Google News

Engines Unite! Google, Yahoo! and MSN Join Forces – Sitemaps.org

pittfall — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:46:00 +0000

Engines Unite! Google, Yahoo! and MSN Join Forces – Sitemaps.org The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Oh, wait… this is good news! MSN, Yahoo! and Google are now working together to provide a useful tool to everyone and making it easier for users (webmasters) to use. This will create a single form of [...]

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Engines Unite! Google, Yahoo! and MSN Join Forces – Sitemaps.org

Googlebot Activity Reports at your Fingertips

pittfall — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:58:00 +0000

Googlebot Activity Reports at your Fingertips A few days ago Google announced new versatility available in Sitemaps, see previous post. Google is providing three different graphs to help you analyze your sites: Number of pages Googlebot has crawled on your domain or blog Average number of kilobytes downloaded from your domain, or blog, each day [...]

Site Explorer – SEO Tools from Yahoo!

pittfall — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:14:00 +0000

Yahoo’s Site Explorer tool for webmasters. Site Explorer offers valuable insight into what the engine indexes and feedback regarding the performance of websites in their index. As a welcome addition to the Yahoo Search Marketing tools, like the keyword selection tool. Site Explorer is an interface so you may manage multiple sites with a single [...]

Sitemaps Gets Fresh!

pittfall — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:34:00 +0000

Sitemaps Gets Fresh! Google has made adjustments to the query stats in Google Sitemaps. So, how fresh is fresh? How about 3 times fresher: “Previously, we showed data that was averaged over a period of three weeks. Now, we show data that is averaged over a period of one week. This results in fresher stats [...]