There has been speculation about the efficacy of putting news content into RSS feeds for some time. As early as 2005 Charlene Li, then at Forrester Research, said if you do nothing else, put your press releases in RSS feeds....
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This morning, Google has launched Google Dashboard , a “privacy dashboard” intended to help users see what information Google holds about them across its various services. Google is able to track a huge proportion of its...
Until recently, Google used inbound links and sitemaps to discover new content on your site and index them. The problem was, if your site has no sitemap or inbound links, your content will not be discovered by Google. Of...
Google announced a new feature last week that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages. Using feeds for discovery allows Google to index new pages more quickly than traditional crawling methods. According to...
Just in time for Halloween, Google has given us a chance to put together a very timely and pithy headline (although I have to give credit where credit is due – hat tip to Andy). There is no consensus on this aspect but it is...