Bing Webmaster Tools – Announcing Bing Sitemap Plugin (Beta) for Apache/ IIS

This week Bing announced on Bing Webmaster Blog, a new reveal that helps webmaster create two types of XML Sitemap called Bing Sitemap Plugin..

A Bing Sitemap Plugin is available for Apache and ISS servers that help you create Interactive Sitemap of all URLs seen in server traffic and Sitemap dedicated to store URLs that have changed recently….The source for the Beta is available for download on the Microsoft Download Center.

Bing Sitemap Plugin (Beta)

Duane Forrester has to explain “How the Bing Sitemap Plugin Works….

Having both comprehensive and delta Sitemaps provides you with significant benefits, as you will always have a full, up-to-date list of all URLs on your website that search engines can use for deep crawl, as well as a concise Sitemap of URLs that were modified recently, which search engine crawlers can prioritize. This can help in keeping bot traffic bandwidth down. In addition, the Sitemap Plugin automatically adds values to your Sitemap, and generates values to the Sitemap based on how popular your URLs are.

I covered this on Bing Webmaster Central Blog Friday and then posted it on Google+. Checked with reference to the documents mentioned below….!!!

• Bing Webmaster Tools: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/bing-sitemap-plugin-beta-f50bebf5

• Search Engine Land: http://searchengineland.com/new-bing-sitemap-plugin-helps-webmasters-create-xml-sitemap-files-149211

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Maile Ohye Releases Video with Tips on Search Queries in Webmaster Tools

Maile Ohye in February 20,2013,  released a new video clip explaining various functionality of search query data in Google webmaster tool. ..

“If you’re intrigued by the Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools but aren’t sure how to make it actionable, we have a video that we hope will help! … This video explains the vocabulary of Search Queries, such as:

– Impressions
– Average position (only the top-ranking URL for the user’s query is factored in our calculation)
– Click
– CTR…”

Here is an introduction video from over at GoogleWebmasterHelp on YouTube:

I covered this on Official Google Webmaster Central Blog  Thursday and then posted it on Google+. Checked with reference to the documents mentioned below….

• Google Webmaster Help – Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wWB1PS8H7Q
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2013/02/make-most-of-search-queries-in.html

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Why don’t you turn off the PageRank feature in the Google Toolbar?

Matt Cutts is the head of webspam at team at Google.. Bay Area, California. There is a video on YouTube named Why don’t you turn off the PageRank feature in the Google Toolbar?

Here is a Video Stream:

Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters. checked with reference to the documents mentioned below

• Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
• Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

I covered this on SearchEngineLand Friday and then posted it on Google+. There are several sites reporting the update, including Search Engine Land many more.

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Confirmed Toolbar Pagerank Update 4th February 2013

4 Feburary 2013. Confirmed Toolbar page rank update

Last Night, Google has just rolled out an update to their PageRank Algorithm for many sites.

There is conversations about the PageRank update happening at Digital Point Forums and WebmasterWorld. In fact, DigitalPoint has a number of discussions on the subject.

The previous PageRank update was done in 8 November 2012 and generally happens ever few several weeks or so.

4 February 2013. Confirmed Toolbar Pagerank update

I have checked some websites of mine and some of the competitors and this is definitely a pagerank update. Some of mine gone up 1 point from PR 0 to PR 1 some went from PR 1 to PR 0.

But I am still satisfied that most of sites have excellent good Page rank.. . I’m sure next time araghu.wordpress.com will get at least PR 3 or 4.

Consider the following expected dates for PR update. Check your page rank now here!

• 28 February, 2013 – 2 March, 2013 – Arrived
• 3 June, 2013 – 10 July, 2013
• 30 October, 2013 – 2 November, 2013

Here is a historic data of latest Page Rank Updates done by Google: Google PR Updates Dates List.

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