Review of Google Sitemaps

Google Sitemaps are the services launched by Google ,mainly to optimize Googlebot Website crawling. It will help webmaster to get their new stuff crawled by Googlebot faster than before.

Google SiteMaps now opens the cannel for everybody, offering a method to exchange information on new and modified content in a timely manner. Both sides can benefit: Google saves a whole of a lot of machine time and bandwidth costs, site owners get their new content earlier on Google’s SERPs and reduce their server load by Googlebot no longer spidering archived content too frequently.

Any site owner can participate in the Google Sitemaps program – from those with a single page to companies with millions of ever-changing pages. You may be especially interested in using Google Sitemaps if you want Google to crawl more of the pages on your site and if you want to be able to tell Google when content on your site changes.

Use of the Google Sitemaps program is absolutely free. This collaborative crawling system will allow crawlers to optimize the usefulness of Google’s index for users by improving its coverage and freshness.

Google helps on content or page removal from google reader or a blog posting from blog search

Remove a blog from Blog Search
Only blogs with site feeds will be included in Blog Search. If you’d like to prevent your feed from being crawled, make use of a robots.txt file or meta tags (NOINDEX or NOFOLLOW), . Please note that if you have a feed that was previously included, the old posts will remain in the index even though new ones will not be added.

Remove a RSS or Atom feed
When users add your feed to their Google homepage or Google Reader, Google’s Feedfetcher attempts to obtain the content of the feed in order to display it. Since Feedfetcher requests come from explicit action by human users, Feedfetcher has been designed to ignore robots.txt guidelines. It’s not possible for Google to restrict access to a publicly available feed. If your feed is provided by a blog hosting service, you should work with them to restrict access to your feed.

Spammer finds himself banned from google,

A blog comment spammer who used automated blog comment submission program got himself banned from google, It seems the comment spammer who used the software was not aware that this technique can get himself banned,

Now its difficult for him to get reinclusion into google,

Beware of Blog Submission Software they will get your site banned,

Read what that spammer said in webmasterworld.com

“I was within the first 5 results in Google but nowhere in Yahoo. So, for the first time, I decided to use an automated link-building method.
It posted about 3,000 blog comments for me. And then, to my horror, I found that GOOGLE HAD BANNED MY SITE!
Apparently Google no longer condones automated comment posting on blogs that have enabled it.
So STAY AWAY FROM unless you want to suffer the same fate I did! “

Google’s new product google base,

google has introduced new product named google base, It was live only for a short while, it was then taken down probably for a later launch, We predict it will be an other great product from google,

This is what google says about google predict,

Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free. Examples of items you can find in Google Base:• Description of your party planning service• Articles on current events from your website• Listing of your used car for sale• Database of protein structures

This what google says about their new product in official google blog,

You may have seen stories today reporting on a new product that we’re testing, and speculating about our plans. Here’s what’s really going on. We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which we hope will complement existing methods such as our web crawl and Google Sitemaps. We think it’s an exciting product, and we’ll let you know when there’s more news.

SEO blog team,

Google Toolbar Pagerank Dies – Page rank display in google toolbar dies

We speculated long time back why google’s toolbar was not updated frequently http://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-blog/2004/09/toolbar-pagerank-is-dead-googles-page.html , Now it seems google will abandon toolbar pagerank all together very soon,

For the past 2 days google’s toolbar pagerank was greyed out, Usually grey pagerank display means the toolbar cannot fetch pagerank for that particular site from google server,

This is the case around the world, So is this the death of toolbar pagerank???, Lets wait for a few more days to know for sure,

We at Search Engine Genie dont care if google abandons toolbar pagerank, We dont measure a sites quality based on the pagerank of that site, Also we dont measure links based on pagerank,

SEO Blog Team,

Google’s new feature gives answer to your questions, –

Google blog says,

Just the facts, fast
Have you ever needed a piece of info right now? Today we’re excited to introduce Google Q&A. We’ve pulled together facts from all over the Web to help give you the fastest possible access to the quick bits of information you need every day; just type a query into the search box, and you’ll get back the answer at the top of your search results. Q&A knows about a lot of areas: celebrities, countries of the world, the planets, the elements, electronics, movies, and anything else we’ve thought of so far (including enabling you to get answers on your mobile device). Try it out, and keep checking back. This is only the beginning.

Google Q and A gives great accurate answers, try some queries like Capital India

who discovered car

Google Adds Satellite Imagery to maps.google.com

Google now adds a cool feature the satellite image with their google maps,

Please check it out here, http://maps.google.com

Google acquires urchin web analytics software – Google Agrees To Acquire Urchin

press release on Urchin site,

Google Agrees To Acquire Urchin
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 28, 2005 – Google Inc. today announced it has agreed to acquire Urchin Software Corporation, a San Diego, California based web analytics company.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Urchin is a web site analytics solution used by web site owners and marketers to better understand their users’ experiences, optimize content and track marketing performance. Urchin tools are available as a hosted service, a software product and through large web hosting providers. These products are used by thousands of popular sites on the Internet.
Google plans to make these tools available to web site owners and marketers to better enable them to increase their advertising return on investment and make their web sites more effective.
“We want to provide web site owners and marketers with the information they need to optimize their users’ experience and generate a higher return-on-investment from their advertising spending,” said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president of product management, Google. “This technology will be a valuable addition to Google’s suite of advertising and publishing products.”
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions. Google anticipates that the acquisition will close before the end of April.

http://www.urchin.com/company/news/03282005.html

Google guy responds to Attack on google for potential cloaking of some pages of their site

Many forums and blogs blame Google’s is keyword stuffing, cloaking their title etc in their support, that page was fixed and removed from google index now, Googleguy immediately responded explaining what has happened behind the screen,

Hey everyone, I’m sorry that it took me a while to post about this. I
wanted to make sure I completely understood what was going on first.
Those
pages were primarily intended for the Google Search Appliances that do site
search on individual help center pages. For example, http://adwords.google.com/support has a search box, and that
search is powered by a Google Search Appliance. In order to help the Google
Search Appliance find answers to questions, the user support system checked for
the user agent of “Googlebot” (the Google Search Appliance uses “Googlebot” as a
user agent), and if it found it, it added additional information from the user
support database into the title.
The issue is that in addition to being
accessed via the internal site-search at each help center, these pages can be
accessed by static links via the web. When the web-crawl Googlebot visits, the
user support system thinks that it’s the Google Search Appliance (the code only
checks for “Googlebot”) and adds these additional keywords.
That’s the
background, so let me talk about what we’re doing. To be consistent with our
guidelines, we’re removing these pages from our index. I think the pages are
already gone from most of our data centers–a search like
[site:google.com/support] didn’t return any of these pages when I checked. Once
the pages are fully changed, people will have to follow the same procedure that
anyone else would (email webmaster at google.com with the subject “Reinclusion
request” to explain the situation).

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/1621206

Google desktop search API now open for developers for developing unique tools,

Google recently introduced API feature for desktop search, this enables users to do unique applications for desktop search,

http://desktop.google.com/developer.html

Read the developer guide for more information on how to work with the API,

http://desktop.google.com/developerguide.html