Raven SEO Weekly Digest - Issue 20

Yahoo's Microformats Are Released Into the Wild

Yahoo's announcement that it was beginning to index semantic markup language a couple of weeks ago was a huge victory for the bottom-up approach to building the Semantic Web. However, Yahoo! is not only indexing microformats, it has begun to use them on its own websites, including shopping search engine Kelkoo.

Speaking the Language of Robots

Seasoned SEO specialists know that the Googlebot is a good listener - he respects our wishes and doesn't go to parts of our sites that are off limits to him. If you've been having difficulty getting the Googlebot to listen to your requests, then the Google Webmaster tools may have a solution - the new Robots.txt Generator. Very intuitive and simplistic, you can be as detail oriented as you need to be.

20 Types of Pages That Every Blogger Should Consider

Whatever platform you use to drive your blog or website there are certain choices you're given when publishing content - a 'post' or a 'page'. Darren Rowse at ProBlogger highlights 20 pages you may want to consider creating to promote your blog to different groups of people.

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Posted By: Lee Smith-Bryan Posted On: Mar 28, 05:01 PM

Comments

Author: Mark
Posted: Mar 29, 02:44 AM
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The robots.txt generator has nothing special. There are thousands of sites out there doing already that.
Also I don’t understand why I need to wait more than 24 hours for Googlebot to download again the robots.txt file. Makes testing robots.txt changes almost impossible!

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