http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/ Recently updated or added information from Smart-IT-Consulting.com en-us Copyright (C) 2004,2005 by smart-it-consulting.com Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:04:54 -0400 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:28:31 -0400 IT DataDirect brings high performance data connectivity to SSIS packages accessing Oracle, DB2, and Sybase. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=172&page=141 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=172&page=141 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:28:31 -0400 Upd: 2007-06-05 08:28:31 The world's largest particle physics laboratory uses SonicMQ to monitor and control complex technical infrastructure. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=172&page=139 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=172&page=139 Wed, 30 May 2007 02:57:57 -0400 Upd: 2007-05-30 02:57:57 Market-leading Apama(R) SaaS Platform delivers competitive edge to sell-side firms to attract buy-side clients in capital markets. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=172&page=140 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=172&page=140 Wed, 23 May 2007 03:26:25 -0400 Upd: 2007-05-23 03:26:25 How to make cluttered page areas like blocks with ads unsearchable. The class name robots-nocontent can be applied to everything not related to the page's main content. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=140&page=138 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=140&page=138 Thu, 03 May 2007 06:42:23 -0400 Upd: 2007-05-03 06:42:23 Text link brokers do a good job by connecting related Web sites and handling their traffic deals. It looks like a win-win situation, but there are pitfalls with regard to search engines, who try to devaluate all non-editorial links because their ranking algorithms aren't perfect. Commercial link trades aren't evil, but risky without link condom. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=137 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=137 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:37:32 -0500 Upd: 2006-02-21 09:37:32 Suchmaschinen Marktführer Google setzt seine Etiquette rigoros durch: Suchmaschinen-Spam wird nicht länger toleriert. Wer sich nicht an die Regeln hält, fliegt aus dem Suchindex, gnadenlos. Seit Januar 2006 wird zurückgeschossen: Bisher übliche Suchmaschinen-Optimierungs-Techniken, die gegen die seit Jahren veröffentlichten Regeln verstossen, werden mit Besucherentzug (Deindexierung) abgestraft. Die Spam Clinic kann deutschen Internetunternehmern helfen, verlorenes Terrain zurückzugewinnen, oder den Liebesentzug der führenden Suchmaschine abzuwenden, bevor der Schaden eintritt. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=170&page=136 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=170&page=136 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:55:17 -0500 Upd: 2006-02-07 08:55:17 Google's sitemap program provides detailed crawler reports which make it easy to fix issues like broken links, conflicts with robots.txt exclusions etc. etc. in no time. There is even a great robots.txt validator. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=133&page=101 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=133&page=101 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:42:03 -0500 Upd: 2006-02-06 16:42:03 Google's Sitemaps Team, interviewed in January 2006, provides great insights and information about the Sitemaps program, crawling and indexing in general, handling of vanished pages (404 vs. 410) and the URL removal tool, and valuable assistance on many frequently asked questions. Matt Cutts chimed in and stated '...It's definitely a good idea to join Sitemaps so that you can be on the ground floor and watch as Sitemaps improves'. This interview is a must-read for Webmasters. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=135 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=135 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:09:16 -0500 Upd: 2006-02-01 10:09:16 What is a link worth with regard to search engine rankings, and what kind of links should you hunt for if you're not the WSJ? http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=134 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=134 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:56:05 -0500 Upd: 2006-01-31 08:56:05 Should I include all URLs in my sitemap, even feeds, images, videos and other Web objects without META data? Will a Google Sitemap help to get framed pages indexed? Should I submit thin pages via Google Sitemaps or would this hurt? http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=130 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=130 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:54:45 -0500 Upd: 2006-01-26 11:54:45 Shoving Frames are evil and Fixed navigation is user friendly under one brilliant hat. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=76 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=76 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Upd: 2006-01-20 00:00:00 I have a site hosted under two domains, example.com and example.net, can I have a Google Sitemap on both servers, or should I consolidate the site's various addresses? I want to consolidate several brands with Web sites hosted on separate domains and sub-domains on my main site, now I need a checklist. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=129 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=129 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:00:03 -0500 Upd: 2006-01-12 07:00:03 The free Python Google sitemap generator can be used to create Google Sitemaps in XML format by walking the file system on the web server and scanning access logs. It requires Python version 2.2 (or compatible newer versions) installed on your server. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=128 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=128 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:00:01 -0500 Upd: 2006-01-11 09:00:01 Declined submissions and error messages like URL not under Sitemap path are often caused by an incorrect usage of multiple server names. Why are example.com and www.example.com different, when both serve the same content? How to avoid confusion? http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=127 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=127 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:07:06 -0500 Upd: 2006-01-03 00:07:06 Googlebot downloads my XML sitemap frequently, but didn't crawl and index all pages of my Web site yet. What can I do to improve my search engine visibility? http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=126 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=126 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:33:30 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-19 12:33:30 My Google Sitemap submission was accepted but I can't find (all) my Web pages with a site:example.com search. Why doesn't Google index my Web site (completely)? http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=125 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=125 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:19:48 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-19 07:19:48 By default, XML-based sitemaps are not human readable - the browser just renders a big bunch of XML code and pure data. To make your sitemap look like a normal HTML webpage, you just have to add one line to your Google Sitemaps file, that's all. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=124 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=124 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:04:35 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-16 08:04:35 Although Google dominates search, I'd like to get the most out of my efforts to create and maintain a Google Sitemap. Are there other search engines which accept mass URL submissions via XML sitemaps? Yes. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=123 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=123 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:59:55 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-15 09:59:55 I've moved my site to a new domain. Can I submit a Sitemap to tell Google to index the new site rather than the old site? What else should I do to ensure a smoothly move? http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=122 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=122 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:10:07 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-15 09:10:07 How blog networks, (free) hosting services, and communities where each user publishes on a different sub-domain, can provide a centralized Google Sitemap service. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=121 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=121 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:15:44 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-14 17:15:44 Browse the index or use the site search to find the topic related to your Google Sitemaps question. If the short answer isn't enough, follow the links to more detailed information. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=120 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=120 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:23:21 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-14 16:23:21 This article outlines a search engine marketing strategy for consultants, tax advisors, lawyers, audit firms, engineers and similar service enterprises. It tells the reader how to drive highly targeted organic search engine traffic to a consultant's Web site. Asking why most consulting firms lack search engine visibility leads to a simple conclusion: they hide themselves on the Web, and actively prevent search engines from ranking their Web sites in top spots on the search result pages. Once this mentality gets recognized, its unwanted consequences can be eliminated with ease. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=119 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=119 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:57:50 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-13 10:57:50 Yahoo's site explorer is a great tool for folks keen on linkage data. Here is a quick rundown on its Web interface and the API. [12/06/2005: Y!SE was updated and greatly improved] http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=104 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=104 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:00:04 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-12 15:00:04 Breaking up the anatomy of the Google Sitemaps submission process leads to a time table, and answers a lot of related questions. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=118 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=118 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:37:21 -0500 Upd: 2005-12-05 09:37:21 The bad news of the search year 2005 is, that link development becomes a very expensive and labor intensive task, and requires outstanding knowledge and experience. The good news is, that post Jagger a handful of trusted inbound links do count more than a gazillion of artificially traded links in the past. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=117 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=117 Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:08:01 -0500 Upd: 2005-11-24 11:08:01 No, Google Sitemaps are are just (mass) URL submissions. If you feel comfortable using Google's add-url form to submit your URLs, you can submit an XML sitemap too. In any case you should care what you're submitting. Junk submissions from your site may have impact on search engine placements of clean pages. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=115 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=115 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:19:56 -0500 Upd: 2005-11-21 01:19:56 If your particular question wasn't answered, submit it here. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=116 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=116 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:47:35 -0500 Upd: 2005-11-14 17:47:35 Depends. Before you look for a tool, work out a sitemap strategy suitable for your Web site. Choosing a tool sets the procedure to create and maintain the sitemaps in stone, thus make a good decision in the first place. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=113 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=113 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:38:36 -0500 Upd: 2005-11-10 09:38:36 No, Google Sitemaps enhance a site's crawlability, which is a good thing as part of a long-term SEO strategy, but even perfectly crawlable sites can get 'sandboxed'. To escape Google's probation period (a.k.a. 'sandbox') you must tweak other factors. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=112 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=112 Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:55:09 -0500 Upd: 2005-11-02 10:55:09 The time to index counted from the Google Sitemaps submission may range from a few hours to never. For Web sites in pretty good shape Google's time to index usually doesn't exceed two days. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=111 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=111 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:39:14 -0500 Upd: 2005-11-01 10:39:14 No, Google Sitemaps is a robots inclusion protocol lacking any syntax for deletions. Remove deleted URLs in the XML file, and ensure your server responds 404 or 410 to Googlebot. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=110 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=110 Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:40:32 -0400 Upd: 2005-10-29 14:40:32 The official answer is no, PageRank adjustments are unrelated to Google Sitemaps. The inofficial answer is depends, in some cases Google Sitemap submissions can have impact on PageRank calculations. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=109 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=109 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:50:42 -0400 Upd: 2005-10-28 12:50:42 What Google Sitemaps is all about: Aimed crawling makes Google's search results fresh, and Webmasters happy. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=108 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=163&page=108 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:47:27 -0400 Upd: 2005-10-28 11:47:27 Preventing search engine crawlers from fetching particular files and directories http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=140&page=46 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=140&page=46 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:00:00 -0400 Upd: 2005-10-28 10:00:00 Should I provide meaningful URLs? Absolutely, if your information architecture and its technical implementation allow the use of keyword rich hyphened URLs. But bear in mind that URLs are 'unchangeable', thus first consider to develop a suitable information architecture and a flexible Web site structure. You'll learn that folders and URLs are the last thing to think of. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=107 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=107 Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:26:43 -0400 Upd: 2005-10-19 10:26:43 Search engines produce way too much collateral damage in their war on index spam. Especially eCommerce sites suffer from harsh duplicate content filtering. Here is a concept which may help to force SE filters to act as they are supposed to work: in the interest of both the search engine user and the site owner. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=106 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=106 Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:08:36 -0400 Upd: 2005-10-04 19:08:36 What looks like a GoogleBug may just be a sign of a few more GoogleBots applying well known dupe filters to a larger data set. Or why unique content does not equal unique information. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=105 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=105 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:32:32 -0400 Upd: 2005-10-03 10:32:32 Check in here for new features and bugfixes. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=154&page=85 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=154&page=85 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:22:47 -0400 Upd: 2005-09-27 11:22:47 A few simple steps to your dynamic site maps. Plainly explained with samples. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=154&page=83 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=154&page=83 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:08:23 -0400 Upd: 2005-09-27 10:08:23 Simple Sitemaps is a free tool generating dynamic Google XML Sitemaps and HTML Site Maps as well as a RSS site feed from one set of page data. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=154&page=80 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=154&page=80 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:46:09 -0400 Upd: 2005-09-27 08:46:09 Cloaking at all is not penalized by search engines. Search engines consider intentions. Search engines even encourage Webmasters to cloak for improved spider-friendliness. Here is a tiny guide to search engine friendly cloaking. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=103 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=103 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:17:08 -0400 Upd: 2005-09-16 08:17:08 Laying out navigational links to lead users straight to the content they're searching for allows some fair search engine optimizing techniques. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=102 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=102 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:02:04 -0400 Upd: 2005-09-06 17:02:04 Learn more about the backgrounds of natural linkage. Linking is all about traffic, so try to build stable traffic streams by creating outstanding authority sites which will become popular by word of mouth. The search engines will follow their users' votes intuitionally. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=100 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=100 Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:38:41 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-30 08:38:41 License agreement (choose free or paid) and download link. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=154&page=82 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=154&page=82 Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:48:15 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-28 08:48:15 A popular Web site selling links (in ads) can possibly devalue its optimization with regard to search engine rankings. Google applies no-follow-logic to sites selling (unrelated) ads, that means links from those sites do not pass PageRank, reputation, and topic relevancy via anchor text. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=99 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=99 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:55:10 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-26 13:55:10 About the universal node's primary URI, anchor text and tooltip, and tips on identifying and using alternate anchors, titles, descriptions etc. in various inbound and outbound links. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=98 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=98 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:13:59 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-22 16:13:59 Discussion of poor and geeky structures which confuse the user, and introduction of universal nodes and topical connectors, which solve a lot of weaknesses when it comes to topical interlinking of related pages. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=97 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=97 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:30:18 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-22 06:30:18 Web sites without an underlying database and many smaller sites can't work with the dynamic approach to fully automate the Google SiteMaps channel outlined here, so here you go ... http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=133&page=41 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=133&page=41 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:00:00 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-22 04:00:00 Counting outgoing traffic per link works fine without a redirect script, which causes all kind of troubles. Here is a ready to use solution. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=96 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=96 Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:53:30 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-20 15:53:30 A syntax compendium of the LINK element, used in HEAD to define relationships, assign stylesheets, enhance navigation etc. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=92 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=155&page=92 Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:12:54 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-18 10:12:54 Common navigation links on dynamic pages can produce (partial) duplicated content (identical body text served from different URLs). To prevent search engine algos from filtering or even penalizing these URLs, eliminate the overlapping content. http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=91 http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&page=91 Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:35:49 -0400 Upd: 2005-08-15 08:35:49