Archive for May, 2007

Turn around time using content categorization

Monday, May 14th, 2007

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!

Sitemaps and the urls used to process them

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

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>

Great Read for Software Team leaders and workers

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

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

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