The last few days I have been working on creating a database covering common questions I have received about Google Webmaster Tools, XML Sitemaps, HTML Sitemaps and the A1 Sitemap Generator program itself of course The FAQ covers almost everything including how to diagnose and solve crawling errors, handle websites on unstable webservers, scan large [...]

I make and Sell Software for Living. As a developer and publisher of software, I have for a few years now been using Google Adwords to run campaigns for my software. While the complexity of creating and optimizing successful campaigns with Google Adwords increases the more time you spend with it, I have always had a [...]

Getting Indexed and Ranked in Search Engines You know how to optimize pages for search engines and build links to your website. What is next? Well, a question you need to ask yourself is if you are distributing internal link juice properly. Are you sure the internal link structure of your website has an optimal flow [...]

Sometimes I get asked about priority values in XML sitemaps created by A1 Sitemap Generator. You can choose one of the following ways to handle priority values: Have XML sitemap priority values calculated based on all internal links within the website. There is a setting to prevent “extreme values” to be used, e.g. 0.0. This is [...]

The new release of our sitemap generator tool has gone through months of development with special focus on increasing website crawler performance. However, that is not all Lots of feedback (thank you) has helped me to improve program user interface, add new options and fix various issues across entire sitemap generator program including in [...]

For those of you creating XML sitemaps using A1 Sitemap Generator there are some excellent news. I have been hard at work in engineering the website scanner engine with a special focus on improving the already fast crawler while also have it consume much less memory. I am happy to report I succeeded at both Overall [...]

With the new release of A1 Website Analyzer it has become easier to understand the internal linking structure of websites. Our website analysis program can help you see detailed information about all pages in a website, useful if you are trying to understand how page rank and link algorithms distribute across the site. After scanning, you [...]

A bit of an unusual post by me, but I want to share my experiences regarding this topic. About 7 years ago I had problems with my eyes that had grown so big I was unable to work in front of a computer screen more than 10 minutes at a time. My eyes would simply explode [...]

Earlier today I wrote an article with a comparison of website sitemaps. The sitemap types explained include: Text file sitemaps. HTML and XHTML sitemaps. RSS sitemaps - RSS feed sitemaps are often used by blogs. ROR sitemaps - really RSS feed sitemaps with some custom extensions. XML sitemaps - also called Google Sitemaps and XML Sitemaps Protocol. In my comparison of [...]

I have recently written an article about crawling of websites which explains and shows how to solve many common crawling problems. Things covered include: Having multiple domains with mirrored and/or distributed content. Consistent usage of www (or not) in front of domain names. Usage of Javascript for navigation. Broken links and redirects. And many other things, about 10 in total, that [...]