Be Crawler Friendly
While sitemaps haven’t always been in the webmaster’s toolkit, they are a logical addition that has been widely embraced by the industry since their introduction in 2005. Having a sitemap makes your site more “crawler-friendly” as it allows search engine spiders to use their limited resources more efficiently. Since sitemaps are open source, they are [...]
The Beauty of Short
A common complaint is that Twitter is dysfunctional due to the tiny 140 character limit. It’s the text equivalent of a sound bite. But that is Twitter’s charm and a key feature. True, it’s short and there’s not much substance. It’s hard to be expansive in 140 characters. But, taken together, as a whole, the [...]
Don’t be the sitemap who cried wolf
As a webmaster I like to keep Google and other search engines informed of additions and changes to my site, using an XML sitemap. This way, they can focus on crawling new and revised pages, and ignore the bulk of my site which doesn’t normally change. At the same time, I don’t want to alert [...]
