BluDomain and difficulty getting indexed by Google

One of the photography forums I spend a lot of time on has a web site board where I tend to camp out. A good percentage of the photographers are using Flash template sites like BluDomain, FlashPalette, or PortfolioSitez which are nice, relatively inexpensive, and fairly easy to setup.
BluDomain goes a step farther [...]

Adsense notifier 0.9.6 released

A couple of months ago I noticed that the Adsense notifier down in my status bar was showing all zeros. At the same time Google started using Ajax in the Adsense pages to show reports, and I assumed the two were related. Since the last time there was a problem with the Adsense [...]

Using Google Alerts to keep track of what’s said about you

I wrote about Google Alerts a few months ago to get new topic ideas for your blog or forum. There is another use for Alerts - to keep track of what’s being said about you, your site, or your company.
By entering your name, site name, or company name you can get email alerts any [...]

More information on Sitemaps from Google

I noticed a few days ago that Google Webmaster Tools is listing more information on sitemaps. Up until now they’ve listed how many pages are in your sitemap but now there is a much better metric - how many of those pages are actually indexed.

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Content Analysis added to Google Webmaster Tools

The Webmaster Tools at Google have a new feature - content analysis. It lists potential problems that were found while Google was indexing your site.
It lists potential problems as issues with the title tag, duplicate meta description, short meta description, long meta description, and something called “non indexable content issues”. The only problem that showed [...]