webmaster

What is a webmaster?

I would like to know what defines a "webmaster"? What are or should be the skills, function and general responsibilities of a webmaster. And, if you are a webmaster, what do you do, what do you know and what helps you most (knowledge or tool) to do your job. Thanks! ...

How do you notify Google through code that there is a updated sitemap?

On this page of Google help: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html#submitting Google mentions that there is a way to notify them of an updated sitemap using an HTTP request. When you click the link, it takes you to this page: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34592&topi...

Managing a social networking website - what should I do and how?

This isnt actually a programming related query but again - I've set up a free social networking site on a small level. However I need to know what procedures do I need to follow to make sure that in a bad situation I can recover with minimal embarrasment. Everything like what conventions should I follow when I need to : Make updates t...

Google Webmaster error: "We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header."

I have an asp.net website (SQL Server, Windows 2003, IIS 6) and I am using google.com/analytics/ to track visits. It all works fine. Now I would like to use Google Webmaster to get better information about my site but when I try to verify it by uploading a html file I get this error: "We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error...

Flash video player for AVI files (free for commercial use)

Are there any Flash video players, free for commercial use, that are able to playback AVI files? JW Player is out of the question because in the readme it states that use by a corporation is considered commercial use and needs a different license. ...

Is there a firefox plugin to see Google PageRank of a site?

Can someone recommend? ...

Absolute unique visitor gone down Drastically

My Absolute unique visits gone down drastically. My auv few days ago was approx 700 and today its approx 50. Please advice what needs to be done. Further the number of indexed pages were approx 450 and now it is approx 300. I never used any kind of black hat techniques for my website. Please advice what needs to be done to retain the ori...

SEO: do crawlers understand <a href=.. links that never will be used?

Hi, I'm developing a public classified advertisement portal, where users can post their ads (ie selling cars, houses, looking for a job,..) and browse them. I want to make the listings (ie "cars", "recently added", ..) SEO-friendly, so each link to advert detail is in his canonical form, ie: <ul> .. <li> <a href="http://mysite/ad/title...

what is Google web master

Hi can you give any reference, can you suggest any website please give as early as possible. ...

Is it ever a bad idea to publish a sitemap for a blog?

I have a blog, and I have been considering publishing a sitemap for it, which would include the index page, archives page, and an entry for each individual blog post. Is this ever a bad idea? Is it a good (or useful) idea? I'm particularly interested in the <changefreq> element: I edit posts from time to time, and while that's not a comm...

how can i insert a new sitemap with google gdata api? it returns 400 bad request

i try to insert a new sitemap to google using api, but i can't do it successful-_- this is the method var fullDomainUrl = "http://www.example.com/"; var entry = new SitemapsEntry(); entry.Id = new AtomId(fullDomainUrl + "sitemap.xml"); entry.Categories.Add(new AtomCategory("http://schemas.google.com/w...

How to Login Google webmaster tools with XMLHTTP

Hello, I have tried so many times but I couldn't get it worked. I am trying to log in google webmaster tools to get Search Queries List (top 20) I used XMLHTTP and AspTear, but no action :(. It says "my browser isnt cookie supported" But how can I log in google webmaster tools via xMLHTTP cookied enables? xmlhttp has any parameter ...

how many users typically use the "forgotten password" flow?

I was wondering what the "standard" usage rate of the "forgot my password" flow is on other ecommerce/industry websites? Right now not that many people go through the "forgot my password" link on my website, but that's mainly because most people don't have passwords. I'm in the process of installing a new login (which will encourage peop...