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According to a post on Google's Webmaster Central blog, Google is now discovering web sites by automatically scanning RSS and Atom feeds. This new process will help Google more quickly identify web pages and will allow users to find new content in search results as soon as it goes live. While not exactly "real-time," using (Read More)
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Google is now giving webmasters the ability to prompt users for automatic translations of their pages. With the new website translator gadget, site owners can paste a short snippet of code into their websites and instantly increase their reach to up to 51 languages.The gadget will automatically detect a user's preferred lan (Read More)
Submitted by Genuwine4532:
The term Index, which not only applies to Google but any search engine, such as Yahoo and Bing, is the search engine listings. To be “indexed” means that your site appears somewhere in the index of search engines.The sites home page maybe indexed, and usually other content pages of the website, referred to as “inner pages” (Read More)
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Google announced today support for enhanced markup for video search. This will allow webmasters to include important information, such as titles and descriptions, in machine-readable HTML along with the JavaScript or Flash videos themselves. In a blog post, video search project manager Michael Cohen wrote, "We wanted to off (Read More)
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Twenty-one entrepreneurial teams have been selected to participate in Seedcamp Week 2009, a London-based, startup-focused event now in its third year. Seedcamp also selectively funds (and subsequently accelerates) around 5 startups each year; to date, 14 teams have received funding.Read on for a full list of the finalist st (Read More)
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As a follow up to my post on the best resources for getting inspired for website content ideas here are 16 ideas for creating useful, original and great content that will help your visitors and provide the content that search engines crave.Remember that the more content you add to your site the more pages of your site will (Read More)
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After seeing how hard it is to combat the goliath that is Google when it comes to search, you almost have to wonder about anyone launching an alternative search engine these days. Are they crazy? Overly ambitious? Probably a little of both. The latest attempt to snag a little search market share comes from Lavva, a company (Read More)
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Let's face it: If cropping was all you needed to do, you'd just use MS Paint.Photoshop, Adobe's industry standard for image editing, costs a whopping, unforgivable $600; and because there's no affordable and equivalent option for non-pro users, we're willing to wager Photoshop places high in the rankings for the most illega (Read More)
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We've all seen a great deal lately of two trends: Personal website creation made simple (here's our favorite four resources of the moment) and social media aggregation services that pool all a user's streams and networking information.Today, TinyChat creator Dan Blake along with cohorts Oliver Turbis and Joshua Gigg have an (Read More)
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Sometimes, even HTML is just too hard.In this postmodern world, we're all professionally fragmented jacks of all trades, and few of us have the patience (read: OCD) for learning enough CSS and Flash to allow us to keep up with the Jonses in terms of functional, sexy web design. Here are some cheat sheets, the Cliff Notes of (Read More)
Submitted by Genuwine4532:
One of the most important factors in learning how to make a website is to ensure that you make a great first impression, develop trust and make a website for your online visitors that has the correct on-site optimization for visitors.Many little on-site actions, as well as big ones, that will give users a sense of stability (Read More)
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Thousands of intelligent students seize up during standardized test season. They're the ones in the back of the gymnasium, frantically writing to the last minute and choking under the pressure of an egg timer. I am this student. Perhaps test anxiety doesn't come from the actual questions sitting in front of us, but rather t (Read More)
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Longtime forum moderator Mark O'Sullivan's Vanilla, an open-source, standards-compliant, fully extensible discussion forum CMS, is a favorite of many designers and webmasters alike.One reviewer said it best: "Forget how 'normal' forums are done - Vanilla strips it back to what's important: the conversations. Not the smileys (Read More)
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We've added a few good events to our schedule this week. So, pull up your calendars and block off days for the ones that match your interests. This events guide is a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans.Know of an event taking place that sho (Read More)
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Are you itching to get out of the office and network with your peers? Why not head out to one of the venues listed in our roundup of upcoming social Web events. The events guide is a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans.Know of an event taki (Read More)