&t North Country Consulting: September 2007

Saturday, September 29, 2007

The Mashups book is out, and the downloadable files are online (in the Downloads & Updates section at the lower right).

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Friday, September 21, 2007

How To Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups is now at the printer. It should be available by the beginning of October. Amazon is now taking orders (scroll down for the link at the right of this page).

And the next one is on its way. Special Edition Using FileMaker 9 is in final production and will be available in November. There's also an Amazon link at the right of this page where you can order it.

Sample code for the Mashups book will be posted here as soon as it is published. To make certain you know when it is posted, join the mailing list (also at the right).

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Sunday, September 9, 2007

Search engines such as Google and Yahoo! crawl the Web indexing the pages that they find so that you can quickly find the information you want. Webmasters help the search engines by providing information about what is duplicative information that shouldn't be indexed; they also can help the search engines by pointing them to dynamic Web pages that may not be otherwise located.

As Declan McCullagh documented on CNet last week (see following post), search engines were directed away from certain National Intelligence and White House Web pages. The pages were available through direct access, but they didn't show up on search engines.

On the Roundtable, we certainly can't figure out why this happened. But when Jesse Feiler joins Joe and the group on Monday, September 10 at 11 AM, we can certainly talk about how Webmasters help (and sometimes hinder) search engines. The lessons can be valuable to anyone with a Web site.

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In recent articles on CNet, Declan McCullagh has examined some interesting adventures with government Web sites. The Web site of National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell temporarily disappeared from search engines as described in this January 7 article. An earlier story that day documented similar adventures at the White House Web site.

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Google Webmaster Help Center

Search engines like Google want to provide the best results to their users. Here you'll find the main page that Google provides for Webmasters with tips and tools.

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Yahoo! support for Webmasters

Useful information and many links to help you optimize your site and work well with Yahoo! search. This is the main page.

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