Google’s XML Sitemaps

Posted on June 24, 2005 - Filed Under RSS Industry News, Website Traffic | 9 Comments

I’ve been getting quite a few emails from subscribers lately asking about Google’s new sitemap technology.
People are asking me because I’m an RSS fanatic and most RSS is written in XML, as are Google’s sitemaps.
To be honest with you here (and I’m soliciting responses from anyone who is in the know) I haven’t experimented at [...]

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Your Blog’s Ping - Can You Hear It?

Posted on June 3, 2005 - Filed Under RSS Industry News, Using RSS Feeds | 4 Comments

The earlier info about pinging every blog post created quite a flurry of emails and comments.
Made me wonder…perhaps not everyone knows this stuff already.
So let’s talk about it some…
There are many blog services and software and there’s no way I can cover them all, but I will talk about the top three - Google’s blogger [...]

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Pingomatic Pings plus Other Pinger-Things

Posted on June 3, 2005 - Filed Under Marketing Help | 5 Comments

This is a continuation of a previous post about ping engines.
Ping (aka notify) the ping engines every time you post a new article or item on your blog to get the search engines to your site more often.
Now most bloggers use pingomatic.com as a fast ‘notify’ engine. Pingomatic is a lot like the ‘corner store’, [...]

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