There’s a useful thread over at Google Webmaster Groups that highlights an issue with default filenames such as index.html and sitemaps. As user edralph888 explains: The URL in our sitemap is in the format: http://www.domain.com/index.html?whatever=value The problem with Googlebot is that even though that is the URL we put in the sitemap, it doesn’t use Continue reading →
John Mueller Answering Webmaster Questions on Twitter
September 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
John Mueller is a well known face in Google’s Webmaster Help Group and works as a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Zürich. He’s also a regular on Twitter under his familiar username JohnMu. Seeing as it’s Friday, he’s allowing people to send him Webmaster questions through the service. I don’t know if this is official Continue reading →
GSiteCrawler Now On Ubuntu
August 15, 2008 By 8 Comments
I went cold-turkey on Windows at the beginning of this year, installing Ubuntu on my work station. It’s been frustrating at times, when you have to learn to do tasks again but you soon adapt. One thing I have missed though are some Windows tools and applications. Most have been replaced, even PhotoShop has a Continue reading →
