Guimkie » Google http://guimkie.com Tutorials and great Mac software! Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:59:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://guimkie.com http://guimkie.com/favicon.ico Guimkie iMap and the Google Webmaster Tools http://guimkie.com/imap/imap-and-the-google-webmaster-tools/ http://guimkie.com/imap/imap-and-the-google-webmaster-tools/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:36:17 +0000 Max (from Guimkie) http://guimkie.com/?p=203 If you watched the tutorial on how to use iMap, then you’ll probably going to like this.

This is the second part to the tutorial. It explains how to use iMap in conjunction with the Google Webmaster Tools: how to get a Google Webmaster Tools project, how to verify your site and add a sitemap. All this will ultimately help you to show up on Google.

If you haven’t watched the first tutorial just yet, then go ahead and do that first.

So, if you want to see how you can efficiently use iMap with the Google Webmaster Tools, then go ahead and launch the video tutorial:

Launch Tutorial

Get to the Google Webmaster Tools!

If you run into any problems, then do not hesitate to contact me. You can find a contact form on the contact page.

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]]> http://guimkie.com/imap/imap-and-the-google-webmaster-tools/feed/ 4 New GWTA Warnings http://guimkie.com/google/new-gwta-warnings/ http://guimkie.com/google/new-gwta-warnings/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:51:23 +0000 Max (from Guimkie) http://guimkie.com/?p=129 Lately I have been getting quite a collection of emails telling and asking for help about warnings that people are receiving in their Google Webmaster Tools Account (GWTA). The warnings first warning is as follows:

All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority.
All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site and doesn’t impact your site’s performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can’t tell which are more important.

This is an issue that comes up with the priority settings in iMap. It is quite stupid and I will be bringing out an update to solve this as soon as I can.
The second warning goes like this:

All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content.
All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content. Because it is difficult for search engines to crawl and index dynamic content, this may impact your site’s performance in search results. Check your Sitemap to make sure that your site information is correct.

Now, this is something which I cannot control. Dynamic content is basically a normal webpage with some fancy scripts added to it. These scripts grab certain parts of other files and place it into the main page. This causes the actual page to be built up through lots of small and separate script pages. Google doesn’t like that as it only checks the main page, which of course doesn’t fully have the whole content. Bad! This is one of downsides of iWeb which also is the reason why you can’t run sitemap-generators on your site (and get all pages linked).

Though, as the warnings above are just warnings and not errors, they can be ignored for the time being. I will get rid of the first warning by bringing out an update to iMap – but you will just have to live with the second warning. Sorry people! :-|

]]> http://guimkie.com/google/new-gwta-warnings/feed/ 1 Google Down? http://guimkie.com/google/google-down/ http://guimkie.com/google/google-down/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:11:07 +0000 Max (from Guimkie) http://guimkie.com/google/google-down/ Google? Hello? After having typed in the Google search field in Safari for the past hours now, with nothing showing up, I am beginning to worry that Google is doing some upgrading of some kind. No visitors from Google have reached my site in the past hours … and I feel horribly isolated without Google! Sounds weird – but now that I think about it, every question that pops into my mind gets googled. Yahoo is there – but come on; Google is my beloved search engine.

Good luck Google! :-D

PS: Am only I experiencing this problem or others as well? I’ve tried reaching Google on several Macs and they all fail … weird. Now that I look at my site, I see that my ads are gone as well – they are Google Adsense.

]]> http://guimkie.com/google/google-down/feed/ 1 Get On Google With iWeb ‘08 http://guimkie.com/iweb/get-on-google-with-iweb-08/ http://guimkie.com/iweb/get-on-google-with-iweb-08/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:42:55 +0000 Max (from Guimkie) http://guimkie.com/iweb/get-on-google-with-iweb/ The tutorial has been updated and spit into two parts:

The tutorial was aimed to be much simpler and shorter. If you however still wish to look at the look video tutorial, then feel free to do so:

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This Tutorial will show and help you how to get your iWeb-made-site on Google without any difficulties. This tutorial will also show you how to add Meta-Tags to your iWeb site and create a sitemap in a snap.

Now, before you start, let me give you a tip! Watch the whole tutorial through once, and then, only then actually do it while still watching it! That will make sure that you will get it correct in the very first place and thus, will save lot’s of time that you might later waste figuring out which step you missed!

Huddle, huddle and rush, rush will lead you absolutely nowhere!

  1. This video tutorial on how to get on Google, will require you do buy an application called iMap for just €8.99. iMap will also allow you to add sitemaps, add meta-tags, ping Google or even create a Verification File. You will also have to sign up for a Google Webmasters Tools Account.
  2. Now, add your Site to the following search engines, Google and Yahoo.
  3. Ready to watch it?
    Launch Tutorial
    Two things I forgot to mention in the video:
    - If you publish to a folder, you of course have to upload the edited files after iMap has created them!
    - If you use a “Personal Domain,” the only thing you have to type in iMap 2.6 is your domain. You do not have to add your site/folder name at the end.
  4. Well Done! You have now completed all the big parts of this tutorial and there is nothing in the way that could stop you getting on Google! Don’t forget that you have to repeat the process with iMap about everytime you publish your site.
    If you have any problems while doing the tutorial (or more likely; afterwards), then drop me a mail. Please do not post any of your problems in the comments section below! That is only for typing out your anger at me or thanking me…

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