One month ago:
Blog Indexing Fail
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1002
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 59 (6%)
Today’s report:
Posts Indexed:
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1010
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 981 (97%)
Index pages indexed:
Total URLs in Sitemap: 799
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 765 (96%)
Verily I say Google’s sitemap service is extremely effective in getting your site indexed. Now getting it ranked, that’s another [...]
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1002
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 59 (6%) — # 12/3/2008
Eight years and ten days ago I published the first post on this blog (though at the time, and for several years, it was on blogspot). The first post is both on this domain and still up on blogspot. I give Google a lot of credit for keeping what must be thousands of dead blogs [...]
Google Reader has updated tonight with a new trends feature. All a part of Google’s effort to tell you more about yourself. In this case there are no surprises. Over time I expect the % Read figure for Messrs. Marshall & Yglesias will climb thanks to their switching to full text feeds.
Subscription # Read [...]
Anil Dash disects the reasons for Google Answers failing and AskMeFi succeeding. "In the tradition of "good fences make good neighbors", I'd submit that smart cops make for smart communities." — # 12/12/2006
From Google Operating System: "The perfect result should be answer to your question, but it should also give you pointers where you could find other information. The answer should be as detailed as you want." — # 12/5/2006
Lee Odden took a good quick video with Matt Cutts at PubCon. Matt, "This is what [small sites] do if they don't have much guidance. ... And you gotta remember, you gotta make good search results for them too." Well said. — # 11/23/2006
evhead, "All I'm saying is that you often hear about companies that should have sold when they had the opportunity2C but you rarely hear about companies that shouldn't have." — # 11/9/2006
Matt and Rand debate. Are the below icons good for your site or not? Matt says they distract the writer from producing good content. Rand says they can benefit the site by demonstrating that your content is there for the sharing. Rand makes a much more persuasive argument, while including several important caveats.
I’ve been devoting [...]
Open Letter to Cory Doctorow, "But, where we draw the line, and this is important to us, and I think it should be important to you, as a writer, are tools that: Modify the meaning of our writing." /n I've been thinking a lot - meg.hourihan.com — # 10/15/2006
Scoble is right to say that Facebook isn’t worth as much as YouTube.
Don’t miss Ballmer’s question here: “[You’ve got to ask] could Google do whatever it is they’re hoping to buy without paying $1.6 billion?” That’s Microsoft’s engineering culture coming through. Clearly Ballmer believes he can build YouTube for less.
The thing is, YouTube is two [...]
MSFT search has been launched. Becuase of the way I use search engines (mostly for research), it will be some time before I have my own evaluation of MSFT search. Two bloggers did some searches of their own to evaluate the new service. Their experiences are starkly different and highlight, I think, [...]
A story from CNN tonight says that when users type in “go to hell” on Google, they come up with the MSFT home page. I tried it out of curiosity. My number one result is hell.com. I then tried the search phrase with it in quotations. Again, no MSFT. Not [...]
Commentary from UCS Linking to another blog which is something I don’t do all that often, but there are two things I liked on this page:
The first is Eric’s commentary on the Internet lacking good content, and the blogs are one of the only good outlets available at the moment.
The second is [...]