Google today launched a new section to their webmaster tools called ‘Labs‘. This new section currently contains two tools to allow you to further manage and optimise your website. The first is called ‘Fetch as Googlebot’ as allows you to view the information that Googlebot retrieves when it visits ont of the pages on your […]
webmaster tools gets an update…
Google have released a new version of their webmaster tools today, you can get a sneak preview here. It includes not just a new design but also a re-think on all sections of the current webmaster tools, how they are grouped together, how you navigate between them and also the information that they give you. […]
A Mordern Sitemap
All websites have a sitemap, the well built ones anyway, usually they are on their own dedicated page and are simply a plain text listing of all the pages within a site, see my sitemap as a basic example. This is a traditional sitemap, one that you will find on most sites across the internet, […]
new search engine, a rival to google?
A British physicist, Stephen Wolfram, has announced today that he plans to release a new search engine that is so powerful that it has been suggested by a leading expert as “so powerful, it could be as important as Google. The search engine is due to be released in the next two months ( may […]
Sitemap Updates
Ensuring the information a search engine has on your site is of critical importance. We need to ensure that new content is added into the search engines as quickly as possible, web crawlers visit your site at various intervals, some search engines will allow you to set the rate at which they visit your site, […]