Archive for August, 2005
Saturday, August 13th, 2005
Get Google To Spider Your Site in Hours
Saw this interesting post on Michael Mayhew’s Internet Marketing Blog Get Every Page of Your Site listed on GOOGLE by Tommorrow! Using Google’s NEW Personalized Homepage.
Here’s the summary:
First, do a search on Google for your domain using this format: allinurl: www.yourdomain.com This will show how many of your web pages are “currently” listed on Google.
Log into your Google account (you’ll need to get one if you don’t have one) and go to www.google.com/ig to create and use your personalized homepage.
Look in the upper left hand corner. You’ll see a small blue box with a link titled “Add Content”. Click it. Scroll to the bottom of the column to the section titled “Create a Section”, then click there. Type or paste your Blog’s Feed address in the box provided and hit go. That’s it. You’ll see your 3 latests posts displayed on your home page.
The day after you have entered your Blog’s feed address. Do your allinurl search again and you should notice a massive difference in the amount of pages you have listed.
So it appears you can now use the same trick to get attention on both Google and Yahoo.
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Saturday, August 13th, 2005
Site Redesign
I’ve been busy redesigning the site which is why I’ve been quiet recently. It’s the first change in appearance since 1999, and long overdue. Although back then the site looked pretty modern, perhaps even advanced, it’s been looking rather dated for some time now.
I also took the opportunity to move away from tables for layout. Waiting for widespread CSS support to allow this is one of the reasons I put the redesign off for so long.
If you’re still doing your websites the “old” way and using tables to position elements on the page, all you really need to do to switch to CSS positioning is replace each table with a
tag and unique ID.
Here’s a simplified example to give you an idea:
<.div id="main_table_replacement">
<.div id="content_table_replacement">
CONTENT HERE
<./div>
<.div id="navigation_table_replacement">
NAVIGATION HERE
<./div>
<./div>
Then in your CSS file you will define the size and appearance of each section, e.g.
#main_table_replacement {
background: #FFFFFF
width: 800px;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 10px;
text-align: left;
font-family: Arial, serif;
font-size: 1em;
}
