Been in touch with a couple of friends that have converted over to Google Sites from their old websites and we’ve added them to Google Webmaster Tools (so we can generate a sitemap) and submitted that sitemap back to Google Webmaster Tools.

In the past this has always been a pretty quick route to get sites indexed (or in these cases re-indexed) by Google. That being said, it appears that Google is dragging their heels. Both Advantage Insurance Group and Lake Forest Acupuncture both have been having Google download and read the sitemaps for the last two weeks and (as recently again as yesterday) and they still stand at 0% found in the Google Index. [More]

Wow, just when you think certainly areas of your life are pretty stable… Vortx, a leading integrator of AspDotNetStorefront software in Ashland, OR, announced yesterday that they had acquired the Ohio-based ecommerce company. [More]

The forms built into Google Docs are handy devices. We’ve talked before about how easy it is to create a form and have the resultant data stored in a Google Docs spreadsheet for later use but many people are looking for more immediate gratification. Follow this quick and dirty tip to set this up so Google alerts you right away! [More]

Martin Sejas just posted an article on SiteProNews about “The Top 10 WordPress Plugins You Can’t Do WIthout” and not being a Wordpress kinda guy, what do you guys think? [More]

One of our clients uses McAfee Secure to monitor their website for vulnerabilities and just recently the Contact Us page on their ASPDotNetStorefront site has started being flagged as having a high severity when it comes to security vulnerabilities. [More]

Well, Google Voice has FINALLY launched to the general public! No longer will my friends and family be begging me for invites to this great program. And you won’t either ‘cause if you jump over to http://voice.google.com/ right now, you’ll be able to sign in with your Google Account and get your very own One Number To Rule Them All! [More]

If you've followed the directions that we posted in our previous posting on Sitemaps for Google Sites and you find that the sitemap is empty (not missing but actually empty) then you'll need to follow these steps to get your sitemap completed: [More]

So you’ve got a Google Sites website and you want to submit a sitemap to your Google (and other site engines) but how do you do it? Sure, with static sites you can go ahead and use a 3rd party system that will crawl the site and create an xml file for you but if you do that, how do place that file into your Google Sites site?
Well, you could upload it to a file cabinet page but Google comes to the rescue, as you can imagine, in that there is an automated sitemap that stays sync’ed with your website that you can submit to tools but it can kind of confusing to find it.
Read the full story to unravel this mess. [More]

If you are using AspDotNetStorefront, as well as possibly many other web applications, you may have noticed lately a number of errors showing up in your Google Webmaster Tools account. The error status indicates “Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn’t properly declare the namespace.” or simply “Incorrect namespace” in the urlset tag. We've got the solution for you! [More]

A while ago, I wrote about how to decide which of the various versions of AspDotNetStorefront were right for your application. I think the guidelines in that article still hold true but now that there are more versions of the software available, it should be updated. Thankfully, the fine folks at AspDotNetStorefront have already done so in their blog. Here are some of the updated deciders: [More]