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Showing posts with label Website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Website. Show all posts
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
MSN Live Search is a Joke...
As a lot of my friends know I geek out about this whole internet thing and recently have been perfecting the search engine optimization for my websites.
One site that I have been working on was actually designed by someone else. I just do the monthly house keeping on it. The owner of the site was concerned about how certain keywords weren't bringing her site up in MSN's Live Search results which is her preferred search tool. **Let me interrupt here and say that I've never used MSN search, I've almost always relied on Google.** Well, after a little hesitation I agreed to see what I can do to fix the problem, after all I bill hourly so what's the problem...
So after a short little search I find a place that you can submit a site to Live Search and of course you would think that would do something... after submitting it and watching the site logs for about a week I saw no hits from the MSNBot crawling the site. So a I did some tidy work to the Keywords and page content to see if that helped any but nothing...
Finally I came across this link at the bottom of the Live Search page that says "For Webmasters" I clicked the link and followed the instructions of setting up a tool that is supposed to help improve your site listing with Live. And you know, after a week or more you would expect that something would happen but nothing did. Which shocked me because of course I was comparing everything to Google and how fast a site gets indexed by them. Well after looking through the links inside the webmaster's tools site I noticed some information that wasn't there before. It indicated that the last crawl to the site was back in November 2007, yes... over two months ago and when it crawled it only indexed one page. This was frustrating, so I submitted the url and a new sitemap and waited a few days, still nothing.
Well after not knowing what else to do I continued searching the internet for help with this thinking that maybe I had done something wrong until today. I found a forum hosted on Microsoft's website specifically regarding MSNBot and the webmaster tool I have been using and the first page of forum topics nearly every single post was someone having the same problem that I have been experiencing. Checking in most of the threads for an answer to to this problem it turns out that NO ONE knows what's wrong with it and there has been no official response from Microsoft about it, at least none that I can find. Go Microsoft, yet another successful waste of corporate money! It's as if there is no real logic to what sites it indexes and what sites it excludes, all I know is that I'm not the only one who can't get them to index this site.
As a result, I emailed my client explaining this situation and notified her that I will no longer optimize for Live Search. I also suggested that she start using a different search tool like Google or Yahoo... which is the whole point of this post today, to tell all you people out there in internet land to STOP USING LIVE SEARCH! It sucks!
Please use Google or even Yahoo but for the love of Peter Paul and some guy named Mike NOT LIVE.
One site that I have been working on was actually designed by someone else. I just do the monthly house keeping on it. The owner of the site was concerned about how certain keywords weren't bringing her site up in MSN's Live Search results which is her preferred search tool. **Let me interrupt here and say that I've never used MSN search, I've almost always relied on Google.** Well, after a little hesitation I agreed to see what I can do to fix the problem, after all I bill hourly so what's the problem...
So after a short little search I find a place that you can submit a site to Live Search and of course you would think that would do something... after submitting it and watching the site logs for about a week I saw no hits from the MSNBot crawling the site. So a I did some tidy work to the Keywords and page content to see if that helped any but nothing...
Finally I came across this link at the bottom of the Live Search page that says "For Webmasters" I clicked the link and followed the instructions of setting up a tool that is supposed to help improve your site listing with Live. And you know, after a week or more you would expect that something would happen but nothing did. Which shocked me because of course I was comparing everything to Google and how fast a site gets indexed by them. Well after looking through the links inside the webmaster's tools site I noticed some information that wasn't there before. It indicated that the last crawl to the site was back in November 2007, yes... over two months ago and when it crawled it only indexed one page. This was frustrating, so I submitted the url and a new sitemap and waited a few days, still nothing.
Well after not knowing what else to do I continued searching the internet for help with this thinking that maybe I had done something wrong until today. I found a forum hosted on Microsoft's website specifically regarding MSNBot and the webmaster tool I have been using and the first page of forum topics nearly every single post was someone having the same problem that I have been experiencing. Checking in most of the threads for an answer to to this problem it turns out that NO ONE knows what's wrong with it and there has been no official response from Microsoft about it, at least none that I can find. Go Microsoft, yet another successful waste of corporate money! It's as if there is no real logic to what sites it indexes and what sites it excludes, all I know is that I'm not the only one who can't get them to index this site.
As a result, I emailed my client explaining this situation and notified her that I will no longer optimize for Live Search. I also suggested that she start using a different search tool like Google or Yahoo... which is the whole point of this post today, to tell all you people out there in internet land to STOP USING LIVE SEARCH! It sucks!
Please use Google or even Yahoo but for the love of Peter Paul and some guy named Mike NOT LIVE.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Long time no post....
Yeah, so I've really been slacking off on keeping up with the new posts... Around Christmas time I started getting busy with various things which kept me distracted most of the month. Then come January I found myself thinking, "I've got time, I should post something." but I never did.
Well, the last few weeks have been out of laziness but before that I had a real excuse. I was actually working. As you might already know in addition to Photography I do design, specifically web design. I ended up with three new projects toward the end of last month that turned out great! Now I tentatively have two more that will happen soon, just waiting on the clients.
Here are a few screen shots of some of the recent ones.... and a couple side projects also.
Well, the last few weeks have been out of laziness but before that I had a real excuse. I was actually working. As you might already know in addition to Photography I do design, specifically web design. I ended up with three new projects toward the end of last month that turned out great! Now I tentatively have two more that will happen soon, just waiting on the clients.
Here are a few screen shots of some of the recent ones.... and a couple side projects also.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
New Web Site Design.
I've been working on a new web site design off and on for about two months now. I've decided that it's ready enough to launch this week. I most likely will launch the new site some time late late Friday night or Saturday morning.
Here is a screen shot preview of the design:
The front page now has a video player that will eventually host interviews and samples of work. For now it's just going to play a video to remind you of Family Portrait Month in October.
Some of the other changes include: better organized menus, a little more content (even more coming soon), and everything is written in PHP which will allow for site growth in the future.
Also a few changes to the proofing system have been made. When users log in they will be taken directly to their photos. The prices list has be organized again, I'm not sure what happened before but some how they got all mixed up, and now less obtrusive watermarks and proofing numbers on the photos themselves.
Change is good, anyone who's been a client with me for more than 6 months knows that I tend to re-design the website about that often.
Here is a screen shot preview of the design:
The front page now has a video player that will eventually host interviews and samples of work. For now it's just going to play a video to remind you of Family Portrait Month in October.
Some of the other changes include: better organized menus, a little more content (even more coming soon), and everything is written in PHP which will allow for site growth in the future.
Also a few changes to the proofing system have been made. When users log in they will be taken directly to their photos. The prices list has be organized again, I'm not sure what happened before but some how they got all mixed up, and now less obtrusive watermarks and proofing numbers on the photos themselves.
Change is good, anyone who's been a client with me for more than 6 months knows that I tend to re-design the website about that often.
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