By : Loren Baker | Source: searchenginejournal.com

Google has renamed Google Sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools and has added the service to their Google Webmaster Central channel which includes Site Status Wizard, Submit Content to Google Base & Book Search, Google Webmaster Blog, Google Webmaster Group, and the Google Webmaster Help Center.

Vanessa Fox posts on the Webmaster Central Blog:

…We’ve renamed “Google Sitemaps” to “Google webmaster tools” to provide tools and information to keep you informed and increase your crawl coverage and visibility on Google. We’ll be blogging here about our webmaster tools, Sitemaps, and other topics related to crawling and indexing sites. And there’s a whole new name and look to our Google Group for this arena too; in particular, we’ve added categories to make information easier to find. As always, we’ll be regularly following the conversations and also posting from time to time.

So do check out Google webmaster central, your one-stop source for information regarding crawling and indexing on Google. You’ll find links to our newly named webmaster tools, this blog, the group, our webmaster help center, and more.

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By:Christopher M. Knight

From: blog-maniac.com

Bloggers blog. That’s what they do. A blog is short for ‘weblog’ and it’s really an online journal that can be updated easily and frequently without any knowledge of HTML code.

Traditionally, article marketing has been used by authors who are promoting their books or information products. Lately, I’ve noticed a growing trend of bloggers using article marketing to grow the traffic to their blog and you should too.

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Source: quickonlinetips.com

If you write a personal blog, chances are you want to restrict access to selected readers or family contacts only. But in the current scenario, your posts cannot stay private as search engines index and track all your posts via your RSS or atom feed.

In an effort to protect the privacy of your personal thoughts, Bloglines has proposed and implemented an RSS and ATOM extension that allows publishers to indicate the distribution restrictions of a feed.

“Setting the access restriction to ‘deny’ will indicate the feed should not be re-distributed. In Bloglines, we’ll use this to prevent the display of the feed information or posts in search results or any other public venue. If other readers and aggregators use the information in the same way, and publishers of feeds, including services that let users create feeds, implement this standard, we could make significant progress toward making feeds truly safe for non-public information.”

You can read the technical details about implementing it. <_access:restriction> element will be used to indicate the re-distribution restrictions for a feed, while the ‘relationship’ attribute is will indicate whether a feed will ‘allow’ or ‘deny’ access.

To deny access, you will need to use.
<_access:restriction relationship="deny" >

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