April 26 Site Maps and Other Changes.
In the earlier Postings dated April 2006, I talked about how I planned to use this Blog to keep people up to date on changes to my web sites and to "ramble' about what went into making them work.
I got some feedback that not everyone who subscribed wanted the details about the site -- some of the subscribers just wanted to know when I posted new pictures and especially new cards on Cards From Ogden Point.
In order to satisfy that interest I created a second Blog with its own Email notification service from FeedBlitz.
The Update Blog is called Cards From Ogden Point Updates.
It can be seen by clicking the link and it includes the information about my new Spring Feature Cards that I posted there yesterday.
In continuation from the efforts to bring more visitors to the site that I talked about in the earlier postings, I changed the Titles and descriptions on every card page to make the cards more distinctive and I redid the indexing and crawling instruction code to make the whole site more search engine friendly.
I read articles about how to make and submit Site Maps to Google an Yahoo so that their "robots" would find and catalog more of my pages. I tried a few free site map creation tools that worked well on the smaller sites like
www.hug.ogdenpoint.ca or http://www.ronmclean.bc.ca or www.ogdenpoint.ca.
Some worked on slightly larger sites like: www.backup.ogdenpoint.ca (The Backup Site For Cards From Ogden Point.)
However they balked at the huge www.cardsfrom.ogdenpoint.ca -- Cards From Ogden Point site and especially http://www.photoserver.ogdenpoint.ca -- The PhotoServer.
(which includes Cards From Ogden Point.)
I found one that handled the whole proces quite well -- for regular HTML (Web Page) site maps -- for the Text Site Maps Yahoo wants -- and especially well for the XML Site Maps that Google wants. The site is called AuditMyPc.com and the site map creation page can be seen by clicking their logo:
The Cards From Ogden Point Site Map has 4008 HTML pages listed and the tool found 7494 other types of files -- mostly jpeg's - the pictures used for the cards and the thumbnail pictures used on the index pages.
The PhotoServer Site Map lists 4627 HTML pages and 19,143 "others."
The site map creation tool "crawls" through the site from the internet connection -- just like the "Googlebot" would so if the Site Map Tool found the pages, everyone on the Internet can find them.
It probably goes without saying that it took more than one try to get it to that point. It took a lot of work -- all of which should show up as more visitors find better and easier navigation.
I got some feedback that not everyone who subscribed wanted the details about the site -- some of the subscribers just wanted to know when I posted new pictures and especially new cards on Cards From Ogden Point.
In order to satisfy that interest I created a second Blog with its own Email notification service from FeedBlitz.
The Update Blog is called Cards From Ogden Point Updates.
It can be seen by clicking the link and it includes the information about my new Spring Feature Cards that I posted there yesterday.
In continuation from the efforts to bring more visitors to the site that I talked about in the earlier postings, I changed the Titles and descriptions on every card page to make the cards more distinctive and I redid the indexing and crawling instruction code to make the whole site more search engine friendly.
I read articles about how to make and submit Site Maps to Google an Yahoo so that their "robots" would find and catalog more of my pages. I tried a few free site map creation tools that worked well on the smaller sites like
www.hug.ogdenpoint.ca or http://www.ronmclean.bc.ca or www.ogdenpoint.ca.
Some worked on slightly larger sites like: www.backup.ogdenpoint.ca (The Backup Site For Cards From Ogden Point.)
However they balked at the huge www.cardsfrom.ogdenpoint.ca -- Cards From Ogden Point site and especially http://www.photoserver.ogdenpoint.ca -- The PhotoServer.
(which includes Cards From Ogden Point.)
I found one that handled the whole proces quite well -- for regular HTML (Web Page) site maps -- for the Text Site Maps Yahoo wants -- and especially well for the XML Site Maps that Google wants. The site is called AuditMyPc.com and the site map creation page can be seen by clicking their logo:
The Cards From Ogden Point Site Map has 4008 HTML pages listed and the tool found 7494 other types of files -- mostly jpeg's - the pictures used for the cards and the thumbnail pictures used on the index pages.
The PhotoServer Site Map lists 4627 HTML pages and 19,143 "others."
The site map creation tool "crawls" through the site from the internet connection -- just like the "Googlebot" would so if the Site Map Tool found the pages, everyone on the Internet can find them.
It probably goes without saying that it took more than one try to get it to that point. It took a lot of work -- all of which should show up as more visitors find better and easier navigation.
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