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Google sitemaps turned on a new feature today. Now you have the ability to not only look at what people search for and click on to get to your site, but you can now see what average position that phrase or keyword comes up at!
This makes things much easier for Search Engine Optimization.
If you have not signed up for Google Sitemaps, signup here
Google has launched their own What You See Is What You Get(WYSIWYG) webpage editor.It’s easy to use and works well on both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Opera is not currently supported.
This new tool is especially useful to those who do not know HTML. The service allows to upload files including HTML documents.
The goal of this project is to give users the tools they need to create static pages rather than ones that are frequently updated like blogger.
If Google’s Page Editor becomes sucessful then the next step by Google might be to offer domain registration and DNS services so people can hook up a domain to their brand new webpage.
I just read that Google has updated the pagerank (PR). If you want to check your future pagerank go to seochat. You can also find other SEO tools there like link popularity,meta tag generator,domain typos,etc.
Also check this out.
Google launched Gmail for your domain. It let’s your domain members to have email accounts powered by Google’s Gmail.
Gmail for your domain is currently available as a limited beta. The students of San Jose City College are among the first beta users.
You can give each of your website members a 2GB storage email account, which is as great as Gmail. The email address is based on your domain such as yourname@yourdomain.com.
Google has announced about a Personalized Home for Mobiles. The homepage displays everything from your Gmail inbox to news headlines,weather, stock quotes, and feeds.
The interface is optimized for small screens, says Abhijit Kalamkar, one of Google’s Software Engineer, on his post.
You can read the whole post here
Google Desktop 2 is one of my favorite Google products. Google Desktop indexes my Gmail messages which helps me when I want to read my mail when I am offline.
Google Talk if installed will integrate with Google Desktop and inform me whenever I receive a mail in real time.
Web Clips is a panel in GD2 which is very useful when you want to be informed about the latest updates in your favorite blogs.
Other GD2 panels which interest me are Scratch Pad, News and What’s Hot.
Ofcourse there are other panels like Photos, Quick View, Stocks and Weather.
I just installed Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress 2.0 . It’s really awesome, you can get Googlebot to visit your site in under 60 seconds!
At first though I got an error while creating sitemap.xml, the error was because the script needed write access to my blog directory.
After a lot of searching I found how to do it. This is how I did it step by step:
Now go to Google Sitemap and add your sitemap. Verify your site to see detailed statistics and errors for it.
If you still cannot get the sitemap generator to work then go here for a free step by step Google Sitemaps Video Tutorial.
Expect Google to get into anything that has to do with the Internet! And if the Internet gets onto the Mobile, Google would follow suit and develop applications for your cell phone.
Google has announced that it is expanding its services to the BlackBerry platform. Available immediately, Google Local for mobile can be downloaded for free, and will provide BlackBerry users with maps and satellite imagery as well as the ability to receive driving directions and locate addresses.
Due this spring, Google Talk will also be provided for free, and will enable BlackBerry users to chat and keep up with their contacts via the Google Talk instant messaging system. Google Talk requires a free Gmail e-mail account.
Of course both applications require that you have a data service subscription on your BlackBerry device, for which most providers charge.
Google Earth came out of its Beta tag for Windows version and along with that Google also launched version for Mac OS X.
Following is part of the annoucement made on Google’s official blog:
We feel like proud parents around here. Our eldest, Google Earth for the PC, is officially leaving beta status today, and we couldn’t be more pleased. For those of you who downloaded early, upgrade to the latest and discover Google Earth all over again.
And we have a brand new member of the family — Google Earth for Macintosh. We’re happy to finally have some good news for the, ahem, vocal Mac enthusiasts we’ve been hearing from. Let’s just say that we have gotten more than a few “requests” for a Mac version of Google Earth.
You can read the whole post here
Google earth for PC and Mac can be downloaded from here
Also more info on Google Earth can be found here
