Leese Internet Technology

Unbelievable! I used adlab.microsoft.com to test the content categorization of a new client. Yesterday, Sunday, the site hadn’t yet experienced a full upgrade of incorporating raw content into the pages and was strictly flash based and their website didn’t have any recognizable content categorization. By today, Monday morning, I had submitted new sitemaps to all the major search engines and incorporated all that raw content (div hidden) and they are now ranked 23% in their content category of choice. Amazing. For more information on how to get these results for your website …contact us!

There is evidence that even though they are a pain the in neck, sitemaps are a valuable tool. In fact, I just used the sitemap on moreover.com to find out the url for submitting a sitemap.

And in order that this blog be used as a reference for both myself and others, here is a list of locations for submitting sitemaps to Yahoo!, Google, MoreOver.com and Ask.com:

• http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=<URL_HERE>
• http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=<URL_HERE>
• https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites
• http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
• http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=<URL_HERE>

If you lead a software team or work on a team, you need to read this article

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html