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Sitemaps Autodiscovery
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Comprehensiveness and freshness are key initiatives for every search engine, and with autodiscovery of sitemaps, everyone wins:
· Webmasters save time with the ability to universally submit their content to the search engines and benefit from reduced unnecessary traffic by the crawlers
· The search engines get information with regards to pages to index as well as metadata with clues about which pages are newly updated and which pages are identified as the most important
· Searchers benefit from improved search experience with better comprehensiveness and freshness
In addition, Ask.com is now supporting submission of Sitemaps via http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=SitemapUrl.
Of course, neither autodiscovery nor manual submission guarantee pages will be added to the index. The pages must meet our quality criteria for inclusion in the index. And use of these submission methods does not influence ranking.
I will be talking about today’s announcement (along with my counterparts at Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!) during the SiteMaps and Site Submission session at SES in New York later this morning. If you aren’t able to join us, more information is available at http://www.sitemaps.org and http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#22.
We are excited about our participation with the Sitemaps via robots.txt protocol and look forward to our collaboration with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and others in furthering important initiatives that make search easier for webmasters and more powerful for users.
Source: http://blog.ask.com/2007/04/sitemaps_autodi.html
Generated on May 3, 2007.
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A Search Engine Friendly PN
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google index released that shows googles capability of spidering an entire PN site. The googlebot picked up pages, not normally crawled, from glossaries, photo galleries, links etc.
At issue is the fact that while these pages are now indexed in google, their relevance in searches is minimized because of the lack of ability to add titles, and in the case of other search engines that use keywords, metatags for keywords for the pages produced by these different modules.
I quicky applied title hacks for my own recently index pages from the modules, however, it's a case of one title has to fit all. For example, my Nature Photography section now has 850 pages spidered but all the titles are the same because of the limitations of the hack (i.e., you can only put one title tag in the index.php file).
Over a seven month course of using PN, I have shied away from using sections, FAQs, reviews and other modules because google did not pick up on them and they did not have title and meta tags.
On the other hand, I concentrated on using the news/articles module because of the use of article.php, which provided both shorter urls (that the google bot would crawl )and title tags which provided a better opportunity for search engine optimization and placement.
I'm interested in hearing the thoughts of other PN members related to their needs and hopes regarding the upcoming (search engine friendly) reshaping of the content management portion of PN that is scheduled for the .8 release.
Can there be a standard way to add title and meta tags to the module system?
Generated on April 7, 2002.
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Why Postnuke should use Bugzilla.
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tracking database. I can immediately think of multiple reasons on how Bugzilla can immediately contribute to better PN development:
1) Users can track bugs better - Let's say I have a bug, #103 "PN doesn't bake cakes." With bugzilla I can subscribe to this bug, get an email everytime someone adds input to it, get an email when it moves from unresolved, to open, then to close, and so on. I can follow the bug through its life cycle. I know SF does this, but its comment system is not very robust IMO. It looks like a long changelog instead of a discussion that can be followed easily, with bugs and developers automagically linked.
2) Users can vote for favorite bugs, to give developers a better idea of what the users need.
3) Dependency - I can look at bug #103 and see that its dependant on bugs #102 and #101, so I can track those as well. This beats "Anyone know when PN will bake cakes?" on #postnuke every 20 minutes ... :)
4) Most Frequent Bugs - I can pull up a list of the "top ten bugs" that plague PN, and track them. Same with most recent duplicate bugs. New developers can look at the list and see the places where the current developers could use help.
5) Keywords - Imagine if you could just query every bug with [users] and have all user.php related bugs come up.
6) Milestone Tracking - I select .7.1, and see which bugs are scheduled to be finished by that date. Then I can roughly tell when a new release is near.
This is a short list at the top of my head. I'm sure sourceforge has some of its functionality, if not all, but bugzilla is commonplace in the open source world (mozilla, red hat, ximian, gnome) and once you learn it its hard NOT to use it. This also gives us non-coders a chance to learn the structure of PN and let us help the developers triage bugs.
Some of the other mozilla webtools might also be a good idea. If you look at this page, you'll see all the CVS commits by the mozilla project in the past 24 hours ... all the code is cross referenced and broken down by developer. AWESOME!
I think a system like this for PN would have tremendous benefits, and since PN has seen such growth in the past month, IMO now is the time to get bugzilla off the ground, especially considering sourceforge's uncertain future. As with most PN users, I have no technical skill in setting something like this up, but I will cheer from the sideline. :)
As I crawl into my flameproof suit, please add comments, I'm anxious to see what other users and especially developers think.
Generated on November 15, 2001.
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evilorder.net PN'd on OS X
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currently working on a Module interface for adding/modifying Order Members, which if I can get it modulized enough, I'll release it.
Thanks again for such a great system, my PHP knowledge has grown by leaps and bounds since shifting the site over!
~bloo
evilorder.net
PS: Quick question: My site keeps showing crawl googlebots on it under Who's Online, what's up with that
Generated on November 11, 2001.
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Crawling Chaos has been nuked.
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Generated on September 3, 2001.