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Google Earth + military technology!

(Geithus) — Thu, 04 dic 2008 00:53:01 UT

Hi there

I was searching the web, and I came over something interesting

[link]

Sesam is a norwegian comapy. They have somehow combined military
techonolgy with photos taken from planes.

I think it's a brilliant idea. And think if Google Earth had bought
the same technology..

Site Architecture

(CraigAtWork) — Wed, 03 dic 2008 20:42:49 UT

Hi, wondered if anyone has an opinion on a thought I've had regarding
my site and URL rewriting:

I have a site with a few folders. its important that the main folder
is there as its really just a sub section of a bigger web solution.

[link]

Re: Sitemap Protocol suggestion

(wreilly) — Wed, 03 dic 2008 11:53:18 UT

Hey John,

Thank you. I had figured this wasn’t the first time this came up; the
idea was hatched from thinking “there’s gotta be a better way”.

It would be complicated to implement and fraught with peril for the
uninformed user, I agree.

Don’t suppose I could persuade you guys to take a look at what I did

Re: Is there a learning module for Google Weblmaster like there is for AdWords?

(JohnMu) — Wed, 03 dic 2008 09:57:48 UT

Hi CedarTree and welcome to the groups!

For the new promote / remove buttons you might want to look at the
help pages for SearchWiki:
[link]

Hope it helps!
John

Re: Sitemap Protocol suggestion

(JohnMu) — Wed, 03 dic 2008 09:53:45 UT

Hi Bill!

That's something we've considered before and pretty much dropped. The
big problem is that it's just too easy to break things completely with
something like that. If you forget URLs in your Sitemap file or if you
forget to update your Sitemap file or even if you forget that you have
a Sitemap file, you could accidentally limit your site's indexing

Re: Open the result in a new window

(JLH) — Wed, 03 dic 2008 03:38:50 UT

I just click that little roller thingy between the left and right
mouse buttons.

Re: Open the result in a new window

(seo101) — Wed, 03 dic 2008 01:32:33 UT

Just check the box that says "Open search results in a new browser
window" under preferences on the Google search page.

Is there a learning module for Google Weblmaster like there is for AdWords?

(CedarTree) — Tue, 02 dic 2008 23:49:32 UT

I loved the AdWords video and text-based training modules. Is there
something like that for the Webmaster Dashboard?

For example, I looked at the site: feature and the results have
Promote and Remove buttons. Where are these buttons explained? I
don't find any answers when I search "site: Promote Remove".

Re: Help if you can?

(Chibcha) — Tue, 02 dic 2008 21:28:40 UT

Hi Harley

Your sitemap comes up okay at the URL . Small point, every page is set
to monthly, which suggests you are going to update them all monthly,
when some may be more often, others not at all. more importantly, the
root [link] is in there but so is:

[link] 0.64 2008-12-02T00:34:43+00:00

Re: blocking Gmail

(MattMan) — Tue, 02 dic 2008 20:45:23 UT

Thanks!

Report Spam via the API

(OllieP) — Tue, 02 dic 2008 19:48:20 UT

I'd really like to see the Webmaster tools API be extended to support
reporting Spam in Googles Index - in particular doorway pages.

Imagine all those home grown spiders fighting the good fight.

searchwiki does't support linux?

(qubic) — Tue, 02 dic 2008 16:26:56 UT

searchwiki does't show on firefox(ubuntu),but show on windows

Re: Help if you can?

(HarleyHaul) — Tue, 02 dic 2008 14:32:15 UT

Hi Chibcha,

I think I just made a site map correctly. Does it look OK? I used a
tool on the web since I am a real idiot without some users friendly
GUI to help. I do not write any type of code! LOL

Re: Using and SEO company

(Sasch) — Tue, 02 dic 2008 14:18:15 UT

I'd agree, but boy have I heard this thing argued from both sides. The
thing is that nobody seems to have any qualms about using multiple
instances of <h2>, yet most people suffer from paranoid fits when
multiple <h1> tags are mentioned. You're right though, that is a neat
little feature at the bottom of the validator, hadn't noticed it