blogrambler.com » blogging http://blogrambler.com Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:43:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 XML Sitemap Autodiscovery http://blogrambler.com/xml-sitemap-autodiscovery/ http://blogrambler.com/xml-sitemap-autodiscovery/#comments Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:10:30 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/xml-sitemap-autodiscovery/ In April 2007, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo announced the support of autodiscovery for the sitemap protocol. Using the Robots.txt file you can add a line to allow the search engines to auto discover your sitemap.

Today, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! together are announcing support of autodiscovery of Sitemaps. The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within their robots.txt file, eliminating the need to submit sitemaps to each search engine separately. Source : ASK.com

It works !

Prior to this announcement I had setup a couple of new blogs. I added the xml sitemap autodiscovery option to the robots.txt file and it appears that it helped get these sites listed in the search engines. Up until this point I had no problems getting indexed accordingly with Google, the other 3 were very inconsistent. I have seen an increase in crawling and traffic from ASK, MS and Yahoo for each site that I have included the autodiscovery tag.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/xml-sitemap-autodiscovery/feed/ 0 RSS well defined http://blogrambler.com/rss-well-defined/ http://blogrambler.com/rss-well-defined/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:40:53 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/rss-well-defined/ Struggling to find the best way to understand or explain RSS?

Alex Iskold has written an excellent post at Read/WriteWeb on the Future of RSS with a brief history and explanation.

Link : The Future of RSS

]]> http://blogrambler.com/rss-well-defined/feed/ 0 Google AJAX Search API http://blogrambler.com/google-ajax-search-api/ http://blogrambler.com/google-ajax-search-api/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:33:00 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/google-ajax-search-api/ I have been following the development of the Google AJAX Search API for some time now. I decided to follow some of the examples and install it here. Each post will contain links to my new Search page. All the elements come straight from examples you can find here and here. Since I am not really a JavaScript or AJAX programmer this has been a learning experience and probably taken me a little longer than it would other bloggers/programmers.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/google-ajax-search-api/feed/ 0 Feedburner http://blogrambler.com/feedburner/ http://blogrambler.com/feedburner/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:21:10 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/feedburner/ I have setup the Feed on Feedburner and added the Chicklet to the sidebar.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/feedburner/feed/ 0 Blogroll http://blogrambler.com/blogroll/ http://blogrambler.com/blogroll/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:13:58 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/blogroll/ The Blogroll has been started using some Blogs that I subscribe to.

This list will certainly grow quickly, especially if I add all the blogs that I read on a daily basis.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/blogroll/feed/ 0 Permalinks http://blogrambler.com/permalinks/ http://blogrambler.com/permalinks/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:11:09 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/permalinks/ The permalinks have been changed so that each page ends in .html

I start with the standard Date and name based permalink, then replace the ending slash with the html extension.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/permalinks/feed/ 0 Post count and Feed http://blogrambler.com/post-count-and-feed/ http://blogrambler.com/post-count-and-feed/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:06:50 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/post-count-and-feed/ I lowered the post count to 5 to pull the page up a little. Long pages can be a little annoying if there is not enough content to keep it flowing down the page.

I also made sure the RSS is set to Full Text and not summary. The Feed is set to 10 posts.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/post-count-and-feed/feed/ 0 Changed the Date format http://blogrambler.com/changed-the-date-format/ http://blogrambler.com/changed-the-date-format/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:03:45 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/changed-the-date-format/ Just another personal preference, I changed the date format to display the day of the week.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/changed-the-date-format/feed/ 0 Google Webmaster Central http://blogrambler.com/google-webmaster-central/ http://blogrambler.com/google-webmaster-central/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:54:31 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/google-webmaster-central/ The sitemap has been added to my Google account.

Now the clock starts to see how long before it is included in the Google Index. Typically this timeframe is about 2 to 3 days.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/google-webmaster-central/feed/ 0 Sitemap http://blogrambler.com/sitemap/ http://blogrambler.com/sitemap/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:51:17 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/sitemap/ Using the GSiteCrawler Google sitemap generator the sitemap has been created and uploaded.

I have been using this product since it’s first release and there just isn’t an easier or more effective way to create a sitemap.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/sitemap/feed/ 0 Robots.txt http://blogrambler.com/robotstxt/ http://blogrambler.com/robotstxt/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:44:01 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/robotstxt/ The Robots.txt file has been setup.

]]> http://blogrambler.com/robotstxt/feed/ 0 Google Analytics http://blogrambler.com/google-analytics/ http://blogrambler.com/google-analytics/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:56:36 +0000 alex http://blogrambler.com/google-analytics/ 2nd step after setting up a blog for me is always plugging in Google Analytics. It works, it’s easy, and that’s what I want from my statistics.

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