Here’s a quick tip for getting your images listed in Google Image Search. There’s no need to actually submit your images to Google Search. They will be crawled by Googlebot next time your site is indexed. You can however update your sitemap.xml file to include more data that can then be used to categorize your image as bots cannot read embedded text.
Search engine bots crawl the internet spitting back the results you see when you do a a search online. To get an idea of what the bots see check out the Lynx text based web browser. As you can see from the screenshot below all the bots see are text or text embedded within an image.
The beauty of the smart phone is that with new apps coming out all the time you don’t have to feel like you can’t have the new features everyone else does. When new apps come out you can simply download them and off you go. The following is a list of Droid apps I use all the time. Are these truly must have apps for droid? Download them for yourself and see if you can do with out them. Having these applications will drastically enhance your Android experience, but don’t take my word for it.
I got a Droid about a month ago and I can’t stop downloading apps for it. I’m now one of those annoying guys that has his phone out every ten seconds. It seems they have an app for anything you can think of. Below is a list of some must haves I’ve run across and kept installed.
I’ve been spending some time with the new social networking offering from Google, Google Buzz. All in all I really like it and below are the reasons why.
I posted this question as I’m still not sure if you can even optimize for Google Live Search aside from submitting to social networks. Live Search pulls the most recent updates from social networks across the web and displays them in line with regular Google results. New results are pulled as they happen.
Are you trying to find out what time of day you get the most traffic to your website? Is it Thursdays at lunch time or Saturdays after 4pm? In this quick tutorial I’ll show you how to view your hourly traffic using Google Analytics. I became interested in hourly stats as of recently when I [...]
I recently had to remove some development pages from Google‘s search results pages and I used Google Webmaster Tools to do so. Google Webmaster Tools doesn’t automatically stop GoogleBot from crawling your site, it does however provide options for alerting Google that you no longer want to have a page indexed for whatever reason. 1: [...]