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Create Video Sitemaps to help Google Index your Videos

Creating Video sitemaps is the best way to help Google index your videos. You can include the URL of the pages where videos are uploaded, title for your videos, keywords, thmubnail images and other essential information. A blog post by Nelson Lee, Product Manager Video Search shows that the video Sitemap also allows you to define the expiry time for each video. This will be helpful for Google to remove the content from it's index when the video expires.

For more information, Visit Google Webmaster Central Blog

Google includes Site speed in search ranking algorithms

Google included site speed as a target for search ranking. An official blogpost on Using site speed in web search ranking posted by Amit Singhal & Matt Cutts had the following list of free tools that can be used to evaluate the speed of your website.

• Page Speed, an open source Firefox/Firebug add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement.
• YSlow, a free tool from Yahoo! that suggests ways to improve website speed.
• WebPagetest shows a waterfall view of your pages' load performance plus an optimization checklist.
• In Webmaster Tools, Labs > Site Performance shows the speed of your website as experienced by users around the world.
• Many other tools on code.google.com/speed.

You can now add Images to your Google Sitemaps

Use Sitemaps extension to provide Google with image information. Here is an example from Google Webmaster Central blog.





< xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">

<>

<>http://example.com/sample.html

<>

<>http://example.com/image.jpg

< /image:image>

< /url>

< /urlset>

StatusNet - Microblogging platform

One of my Ecademy contact Lucas Wyrsch invited me to read his blog post on StatusNet a microblogging platform.

Read through the highlights from his blogpost.

StatusNet is a network of microblogging sites that uses opensource software to run a microblogging service. If you are looking for a way to handle your twitter account then visit StatusNet.

StatusNet allows you to

• schedule recurring tweets
• send broadcast DMs to all your followers
• synchronize your friends and followers lists and more

http://status.net is in private beta phase. You can reserve the name you name right away.

Here is the link to the comprehensive list of sites - http://status.net/wiki/ListOfServers

Adding to that SocialOomph integrates with all the StatusNet sites and all the future StatusNet sites.

Blogger Tip: How to Show Date and Time in Title Bar

Source: Blogger Tips And Tricks - http://www.bloggertipandtrick.net/

How to Show Date and Time in Title Bar

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