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I was doing some research recently on generating screenshots of web pages using an ASP.NET page and found a link to a post on DotNetClassic.com that appears to disappeared into the ether…
Thanks to the magic of the WayBackMachine, this code lives on. I haven’t tried it yet but present it for your edification and amusement:
Try explaining rich snippets to some not totally versed in Internet technology and you’ll be lucky if all you get back is a blank stare.
The following infographic does a great job of explaining what they are, and more importantly, what their benefit is to just about anyone with a website.
As of 3.3.1 (and possibly earlier) when you set a WordPress Page (not Post mind you but Page) to Private, it has the undesirable affect of hiding the page from everyone but the creator of the Page.
The preferred way to pull a page off the site temporarily would be to change it’s status back to Draft rather than setting the Visibility to Private.
Ok, time to get serious about this.
FAST!
Just got this great 500 Internal Server Error on YouTube today (linked to from a Tweet from @mattcutts) and laughed so hard I figured I had to share it.
I can’t wait to run into this band of highly trained monkeys some day when next I’m in Mountain View…
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.
Anyone else heard of such behavior recently? Any thoughts on what is going on that is slowing down the indexing of the sitemaps?
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.
It is a little buried, but Google does make it fairy easy to do this Anyone who has access to view the spreadsheet behind the form can go the Tools menu and select Notification Rules.
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? Here they are in numerical order:
Have you found yourself in a situation where you’re experiencing a large drop in traffic from search engines to your website? SitePronews offers up a nine point path to diagnosing this particular problem. In short, they are: