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Ogdenian Web Designer Newsletter 2
Ogden McGahanJuly 2nd, 2008
In this newsletter:
Webpage Spam Detector
Keyword Density Checker
Analyze robots.txt file
An email program address book tip
MSN Live Webmaster Tools
Search Engines Virus Scanning Search Results
Advertise your business for free
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released
RSS Feed Validator
Time Warner Cable Caps on Bandwidth
Flash files can now be indexed
Webpage Spam Detector: http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/ analyzes a webpage, searching for characteristics that a search engine could consider as spam. Spamming the search engines could get a page to be 1000+ in the search results. Check to see if you went a little over the top with your web page optimization.
Keyword Density Checker: http://tool.motoricerca.info/keyword-density.phtml This keyword density tool is an analyzer that calculates the keyword density for a web page, analyzing single keywords and key phrases of two or three terms. A great tool for determining if a web page is keyword dense enough to be found in a search.
Analyze robots.txt file: http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml This tool identifies many common errors in the robots.txt file.
An email program address book tip: if all your email addresses are kept in something like an Outlook or Outlook Express address file. I Always put an entry in my email address book that uses the symbol ” as the first name and has no email address associated to it (naming it thus makes it the first entry). I also put an entry in my address book that is fictitious (naming it thus makes it the second entry)
Address book entry #1:
Address book entry #1:
Name: “
Email Address: none
Address book entry #2:
Address book entry #2:
Name: 0000015017344702
E-mail Address: 00000@00000.com ( some email address that doesn’t exist )
That way if my computer gets compromised with a virus, trojan or worm that tries to send to all my email addresses it will get stuck on the very first or second address. This safeguards all in my address book from getting malicious code sent to them from my computer. It is a small thing to do to protect those you know.
MSN Live Webmaster Tools has finally been made available. Now sitemaps can be added to an MSN Live account: http://webmaster.live.com/ Sitemaps are usually xml files that search engines scan to see what pages of a site to index. They almost guarantee a site’s pages to be indexed into the search results. I also use a robot.txt file to tell the search engines where my sitemap is located. Sitemaps also can be customized. There are some good online sitemap makers, here is one: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Search Engines Virus Scanning Search Results:Seems McAfee teamed up with Yahoo and started to scan search results for adware, email-spam-ware, spyware, trojans, viruses and much more. The results page clearly notifies you if there is a potentially dangerous site link in the results. I hope the rest of the search engines follow suit soon.
Advertise your business for free at http://www.oodle.com/ They pass over 25 millions “click-throughs” a month.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released. I have been running the new service pack since April 30th, 2008. My system does seem to run much better. Microsoft will continue to service XP updates till 2014…with all the negative feedback I keep getting in regards to the Microsoft Vista operating system. I must make a note here that Microsoft is coming out with Microsoft Windows 7 (which will be a new variation of Vista) next year or early in 2010.
Feed Validatorfor Atom and RSS (Ogdenian Blog Feed) A wonderful free tool for making sure your blog is using a valid RSS feed.
Time Warner Cable is now testing caps on bandwidth usage for account holders in Texas. Basically, you have to purchase additional bandwidth for a internet (and Phone) connection if you go over a certain bandwidth in a month. They also got caught falsely claiming that they use fiber optics in their connections. Why is it that every time AOL get’s involved in something it goes down the tubes. My Time Warner Cable service is riddled with problems during all warm weather months of the year, low bandwidth availability being on top of the list. It seems twice a day my bandwidth drops below the DSL or the old phone modem level. Hence, why I am not surprised at this latest development. I just wish that they would improve their service instead of trying to make more money out of a dying service.
Adobe Flash files can now be indexed in Google and Yahoo search engines. The reinstatement of indexing swf files is a great boon for flash designers like my self. Though, I remember a few years ago when flash files got indexed for the text and links they contained and the search engine results where only marginally better and not truly competitive to html sites with flash embellishments. I will have to see if Adobe changes the behavior of the flash player so that everything within it gets indexed in a much-better-than-before way. I can only hope.
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