Not sure if this is exactly relavant to this threaed but check out this work-around a site has been using via JavaScript:
document.write(’var s1=\”window.loca\”;var s2=\”tion=\’http://www.some\”;var s3=\”site.com/index.html\’\”;eval(s1+s2+s3);’);

So they include a statement like this in the HEAD:
script language=”JavaScript” src=”docs/browseinf.js” /script

which contains the above JS. The original page is LOADED with keywords in the title, via ALT tags, and any link names to other pages on the site to these “meta redirects” contain actual keywords that users might search with. These guys have been getting away with this for at least 2 years…wget this URL to see what I mean:
http://www.centralcommand.com/

Kydd

I too think google sitemaps is great. I have one suggestion however that I think everyone will agree is pretty helpful.

Could we get the time of the crawling errors that are logged? I sometimes have some load issues on my webserver and would like to know if its related at all. Also server reboots happen at 3am once a week and I would like to know if thats a cause as well for the unreachable errors. I wasnt able to find a spot to email sitemaps directly about this suggestion ..

Keep up the great work!

Happy Holidays!

Oh dear! Looks like Google has become like any other public company, that is, the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.

It’s a realy pity and is likely to be the thin edge of the wedge!

I am guessing he was doing a play on works on that one. Lets grand him that much.

>>>>They’ve got a big first-page article in today’s IT supplement about the Google / AOL buy too, wrongly (in my opinion) reasoning that AOL will be getting better rankings because of it.

Well according to nytimes.com it’s true.

“Finally, around 9 p.m., Richard D. Parsons, chief executive of Time Warner told Eric E. Schmidt, chief executive of Google, that he would accept Google’s recently sweetened offer. Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before.”

Perhaps Matt whats to confirm or deny this report for us. Looks like AOL bought ranking juice for their domain.

I am guessing he was doing a play on works on that one. Lets grand him that much.

>>>>They’ve got a big first-page article in today’s IT supplement about the Google / AOL buy too, wrongly (in my opinion) reasoning that AOL will be getting better rankings because of it.

Well according to [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/technology/16cnd-aol.html?hp&\1\1ex=1134795600&\1\1en=00497831ec792f06&\1\1ei=5094&\1\1partner=homepage]nytimes.com[/url] it’s true.

“Finally, around 9 p.m., Richard D. Parsons, chief executive of Time Warner told Eric E. Schmidt, chief executive of Google, that he would accept Google’s recently sweetened offer. Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before.”

Perhaps Matt whats to confirm or deny this report for us. Looks like AOL bought ranking juice for their domain.

That’s what you get for being lazy and not implementing your own ping service but I’m the DIY type and like to know how everything works.

However, I trust very few 3rd party web sites unless I get referrals from other sites I trust which is why I never even heard of their service - good thing it seems!

Now if Matt could just explain why Yahoo seems to be indexing circles around Google, on a google property (blogger) no less, that would be a nice xmas gift.