How to Use Site Maps

As always SEO Book is one of the best resources for Search engine Optimization.  Check out the article on Sitemaps, the Do’s and Don’t’s at SEOBook Blog SEO Book Sitemaps XML

Microsoft Choice of Browsers

Microsoft has come up with a setries of Browser options to go with Windows 7 OS, this a great turnaround.  Amongst the choices are IE, Opera, Safari, Mozilla, and Google Chrome.

Browser Options

Here are some articles about it Microsoft Browser options and Microsoft Browse Choices

Web Browsers for Dinosaurs

Both of these pictures are Dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs

Internet Expoler Dinosaur

IE 6 Dinosaur

I have heard and even met some people lately who are back in the stone age with their browsers, really they are web browsers for dinosaurs and as you know, the big old fossils are long gone.  Unbeknown to some people, the web jhas also moved on and using old Browsers just don’t work with all the new web applications.

The major ossil in question is the Microsoft IE6 browser, it needs to be upgraded as soon as or really you will not be able to visit a lot of sites.

Here is an article Browser Battle

Moziila

Byron Bay Web Design

I have added an additional page for Byron Bay Web Designers at this Blog / site here is the link Web Design Byron and will be updating it in the near future.  Any web designers who are currently working to professional standards and are members of Bling at Ning  will be considered

India Software Developers and Traffic Specialists

Every now and then I’m reminded how clever the Indian Community is at SEO and Web traffic.  I have been to India a number of times and I think it’s important to let other people that have never been to India know how clever they are at the other traffic,  I mean Traffic as in get in a mobile machine and risk your life on the streets.

Hear is a brilliant Youtube video that shows the brilliance of Indian Drivers

SEO = Search Engine Optimization 

Tony Hogan

SEO Book Copy and Site Testing

Here is a link to a sensible article at the SEO Book blog about site testing. It’s sensible, organized and highly worth a read if you are interested in being successful with Web Development Site Testing. It is relating to writing good Copy

SEO Book

Google Webmaster Tools Video

I am surprised only 3,700 people or so have seen this video, it was published in January 2009.  Google Webmaster Tools Video

It’s recommended by Matt Cutts, check out Matt’s Blog

Google Deep Search Crawl Information Document

Here is a link to a very interesting document on Google Deep Search  by Jayant Madhavan 

Chameleon Google

 

Tony Hogan – SEO Search Engine Strategist

I have been carefully doing some monitoring of my Acoustic Guitar Web sites at The Acoustic Guitarist and The Acoustic Guitar Player for quite some time.  I am very interested in SEO, Search Engine Optimisation for Google, amd I often read the Google Blog and the Google Webmasters Blog.  I noticed a major ripple about 24 hours ago regarding the way that the search engine was gathering information and displaying  the searches to users.  Originally when I had mentioned it, people had not recognised any changes, but now the word is spreading that there has been a shift in the way it is spidering information, and the way that the Web Bots Spider it.  I consider if you are going to be involved in Web Development or the building of web sites that you develop some simple startegies to test changes.

Tony Hogan Acoustic Guitar Blogger and Web Strategist

Blingat Ning Northern Rivers Web Designers

Well, well.. it took eighteen days for Google Search engines spiders to crawl us, it’s a brand new Social Network started by Tony Hogan and a team of budding web designers to bring together the skills of people and business in the local community of the Northern Rivers.   Range from the Gold Coast, think Surfers Paradise, Jupiters Casino down to Coolangatta, jump over the boarder to Fingal Kingsclif, Cabarita, Salt Pepper, Casuarina, Pottsville, Mt Warning and Murwillumbah.  This region covers a very broad area, both environmentally and business / skill wise.

As I was saying, Google spidered and cached us = included us in its search engine after two weeks of crazy optimising things which most people don’t realise are possible… but to prove a point and play digital rubics cube, I did it anyway.   While most other developers are still thinking 2001 and dinosaur technology we are thinking 2011, I haven’t said 2012 because of the issues relating to the Mayan calender.

This model network will grow into one of the great success stories of Social Networking.

Tony Hogan – Worlds Best Guitar Blogger and Web Strategist

Bling @ Ning Social Network

Search Results for Acoustic Guitar Blogs

Are you awake to GOOGLE Blog Search BETA?

I just searched the Google Blog Search and typed in “Acoustic Guitar”

And at the very top above the results, this is what came up
Related Blogs: Acoustic Guitar Player –  Worlds Best Guitar Blogs   

And then in the same box I searched “Acoustic Guitar Blog” this is what came up Related Blogs:Acoustic Guitarist Blog – Guitar Lesson Blog

I also got a listing for http://electricguitarist.net

This is of great interest me because I know that the results are very different from the main Google Search Engine and optimisation of Blogs in this database will not be the same as when working with normal Google Search.

Also of Note, the Google Cache has not updated some WordPress Blogs at WordPress.com since 18th Feb

Google Cache Help

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New Search Engine Cuil

  

Cuil Search Engine

 

I wonder how many people are aware of the new search engine called Cuil. Cuil is supposedly larger than Google, that is a very interesting statistic. For information on submitting to Cuil go here to this link Cuil

Here is the link to Cuil Search Engine Cuil

For Frequenty Asked Questions go here to Cuil FAQ 

CUIL PHILOSOPHY: The Internet is getting bigger and more disorganized every day. Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.

NOTE: I would be watching Cuil with great interest.  AOL search engine and others use Google as a backend, but I’ve noticed that Cuil indexes and displays its responses very differently to Google and does not give importance to the same things as Google.

I am currently testing how it works, what it lkes and what what it doesn’t rate.  Already I see a massive difference.  

Internet Explorer Users check out Add Cuil Serach Provider

Fire Fox Users check out Add Cuil Search Firefox

Here is a more indepth article about Cuil when it was launched last July CUIL Article