Google Traffic Based Sitemaps Generator

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced the release of a new Google Sitemaps generator available at http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about the web pages on their sites available for crawling. By submitting Sitemaps to SEs, you are advanced to get better indexing, crawling and coverage in search engines. Google Sitemap Generator is a tool installed on your web server to generate the Sitemaps automatically. Sitemap Generator takes a different approach: it will monitor your web server traffic, and detect updates to your website automatically.

Get more information on http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-google-sitemap-generator-for-your.html

Keyword Question tool by Wordtracker

Well-known Keyword Research tool site, WordTracker releases new tool provides the questions which has been asked by visitors in the search engines.

Below is an example -

Click here to get more information.

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Tips for New Bloggers

If you are a blogger and having a blog on wordpress.com or blogspot.com, then following points could be very useful, whether you have just started with a new blog or you are an old Samurai in the blogging -

• Content – This is the main thing for a blog. Try to post a useful and an interesting post everytime for your visitors.
• Research about topic – I know, blog is totally your place to write anything you like or dislike but a little research before writing is always been good. By spending some time on research about the topic you are going to write, you can get related keywords / phrases which can be included in the write-up. These researched keywords will give you chance to be top rankings in Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN Live Search.
• Social bookmarking – Bookmark your new or old posts in social bookmarking sites like digg.com in the relevant category. It will help you in fast indexing and link popularity.
• Tell your friends – This is an online world now, internet is like a necessity. So, if you have something new in your blog, tell your online friends about your new post and ask them how they feel about the topic.
• Make friends online – Find some related blogs with Google which are relevant to your posts and blog theme. Do some useful comments on their posts and make them friends.

To get more tips, click here  –> Tips for New Bloggers

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Google PageRank Toolbar Update Sept 2008

Hi guys,

Google PageRank toolbar has just got updated again after a PR update of July 2008.

The best example would be this blog which had started on July 9, 2008 and has got PR3, a bit surprising for me. One of my SEO site has always got increased PageRank.

We can see lots of threads and posts about this PR update on all famous SEO / webmaster forums. So, check yours..and best of luck.
Cheers!

iGoogle Artist Themes

Now you can personalized your Google page, iGoogle with themes created by the world’s top artists, designers, and musicians.

And, we can see this message on the Google.com homepage itself suggesting to make your iGoogle more colorful with the Artistic themes. If we click on the link, we can get a web page to choose our favorite theme from the theme collection inlcuding Tommy Hilifiger, Betsey Johnson, Havaianas, Sara Bareilles, Celion Dion, Paul Frank, Gucci, and many more.

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Do you know about Yahoo Buzz

August 18th, 2008, Yahoo! announced the opening of Yahoo! Buzz so that anybody can “buzz up” content from any publisher on the Web.

Actually, this Digg-like social bookmarking site; Yahoo! Buzz was introduced in Feb, 08 but  open to few users only. But yeah! now, Yahoo has opened it to all their users to submit their articles and buzz up any content on the web.

To add Yahoo! Buzz buttons to your own blog posts, articles and web pages, just check http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons, they have a very good collection of widgets and buttons.

You can also learn more about Yahoo! Buzz at http://ycorpblog.com/2008/08/18/see-it-love-it-buzz-it/

So, just go and buzz the content you like…

Cheers!