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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 …
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. One interesting tidbit that can be found on the press release is that they are planning a marketplace of plug-ins. Hopefully this …
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 …
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: Askimet – This is sometihing that I’ve toyed with on BE.Net sites and it seems to be a fairly …
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: Determine what type of traffic you’ve lost. How deep is the decline? Are your comparisons accurate? . Review …
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. Here is what McAfee has to say about this alleged vulnerability: The remote host appears to …
Invites, we don’t need no stinkin’ Invites! 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 …
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: Go to Google Webmaster Tools (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/) and create an account if you don’t …
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 …
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. It appears …
