The importance of sitemaps

While it has become second nature to webmasters and designers to include sitemaps in their site files, many amateur site builders or site owners who lack a useful webmaster don’t necessarily know how important a sitemap is. XML Sitemaps are a protocol allowing site owners to inform the search engines about the pages on their [...]

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Google releases new search index

Google today announced the release of their new search index, called Caffeine. This is not an update to their existing system but rather a completely new system. The biggest change with Caffeine is that Google no longer separates the indexing of the web from the updating of search engine results. The previous Google index would [...]

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Google provides more information regarding site speed as ranking factor

Today Google announced that they have addded site speed as a part of their ranking algorithm. This has been expected for quite some time and Google states that they are concerned with site speed as an indicator of improved user experience on the web. “Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, [...]

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WordPress Widgets

A great article on Smashing Magazine today concerning WordPress Widgets http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/14/5-useful-and-creative-ways-to-use-wordpress-widgets/ More and more people are using WordPress both for blogging and handling their entire website.  This article provides some great resources on using widgets.

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