Friday, June 24, 2005

Use Google Site Maps? Better Read This

If you’re using Google’s new sitemap feature then make darn sure you read all the information.

If you don’t there’s a good chance you won’t do it correctly.

If you’ve used the Google sitemaps, you may know that you can ping their server directly.

A program I use, Gsitemap, will also notify Google that your sitemap is ready.

Until you’re fully competent in using the sitemaps you should let Google know through their system.

Here’s why.

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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Want to Get More Pages In Google - Faster?

Let’s face it, everyone wishes they could more of their pages in Google and faster. Well now you can.
Thank’s to Google’s new Sitemap program, currently in Beta, you can.

If you dont’ know about this program you can learn more at
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

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Friday, May 06, 2005

Never Assume People Know Something

I admit it. I’m guilty. There’s no way I can deny it.

I tell my clients not to assume their customers know something, and yet here I am constantly discovering that no matter how hard I try, I still commit the offense. It happened again today.

I was showing someone the nifty feature on my monitor. I’m amazed at how much it increases my productivity. So here I was showing this feature and something that I think is nothing gets all the questions. As soon as I start, I hear “Wait, how did you move your mouse across the monitors?” I reply, “I just moved it sideways.”

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Use Domain Wildcarding to Shorten Urls

Which domains would you rather see:

http://exercise.example.com or http://www.example.com/exercise.html

http://computers.example.com or http://www.example.com/computers.html

http://health_news.example.com or http://www.example.com/health_news.html

By using domain wildcarding you can shorten your url and make a sub-page look like a main page.

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Saturday, March 26, 2005

How to Use Clickbank's New Ranking for Competitive Intelligence

This is more of a marketing strategy than I usually post here.

I’ve long wanted Clickbank to post a list of their top 100 products. They haven’t done so. I suggested it in email, and they didn’t feel it was something they would implement.

The reason I wanted to know this information is that I wanted to get a feel for what types of products are most popular. After all, if products in Niche A consistently sell 400 copies in a week and products in Niche B only sell 5 - I want to promote Niche A.

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