Razvan Antonescu

Google Sitemap Generator v2 (hehehe already v2 )

Features:

• Full WordPress Plugin Support (just copy it in your plugin directory and activate it)
• Administration UI (Customize setting like change frequency from your WordPress Admin Center)
• Creates a static xml file called sitemap.xml in your blog directory
• Gets automatic rebuilt if you edit/write/publish a post
• EDIT:Includes Homepage, Posts, Static Pages, Categories and Archives

A mix of existing ones

Features:

• include posts, pages and category pages
• be configured as to what is included, the frequency and the priority
• gzip everything automatically
• generate only if necessary: It uses a backup file if there are no recent changes, and otherwise generates a new backup.

No time to test now gtg to Alex. But I bet the the second is the best It includes static pages. Hmmmm Word Press community was pretty fast on this. Guess who’s blogs will score better

A good article points out some good rules to make your fresh directory score better in Google

There are no big discoveries in it but a good roadmap for those who want to start one

On Social Patterns you have a detailed article on Google Sitemap Protocol and a plugin for Word Press

What is Google Sitemap?

Google Sitemap is an account based service that allows you to monitor and submit all your sitemaps

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

Why using it?

• Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
• Fresher search results
• A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes

Edit:

Semiologic has a valid point on how this feature will be use by spammers:

With the new Google Sitemaps feature, you can now serve your spam pages to Google directly, and give them a low priority on top of that to lower their chances of ending up higher than your preferred landing pages. Sweet, isn’t it?

Yeah…very sweet indeed

Search Engine Optimization Companies, Search Engine Marketing Specialists and Webmasters Invited to Rate Google, Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) May 4, 2005 — To identify the best search engine for relevance, RustyBrick today announced the Search Engine Relevancy Challenge at the Search Engine Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo. Search engine optimization companies, search engine marketing specialists and webmasters are invited use RustySearch, a white-labeled search engine, to rate the top search engines.
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Nice SEO Tool (or SEO search engine) spotted by Fantomaster

Features:

• Google Page Rank
• Thumbnail
• Alexa Rank
• Yahoo Rank
• etc

In fact is a tool that combines Google API with different sources of informations about a certain site. Kind of a Swiss Army Knife for Search Engines