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More Google tools for webmasters

The Google Sitemaps program introduced last year has been well-received by Webmasters as a way of getting more pages on their sites indexed (and get them indexed faster as they change). Google has just announced a new positioning of the program as part of a larger suite of Webmaster tools.


Google offers a tool to analyze robots.txt files and another tool that analyzes pages to show which search keywords may have the most weight. Many other tools can do these same things (with several free page analysis tools available), but you can bet that Google offering all of these tools under one umbrella will drive plenty of usage.
Google’s offering is part of a larger trend for search engines and search marketing firms to offer free tools to draw attention. In addition, firms are also offering new for-fee tools (especially in the area of keyword research) as search marketing continues to become more important and more competitive.

Mike Moran

Mike Moran is a Converseon, an AI powered consumer intelligence technology and consulting firm. He is also a senior strategist for SoloSegment, a marketing automation software solutions and services firm. Mike also served as a member of the Board of Directors of SEMPO. Mike spent 30 years at IBM, rising to Distinguished Engineer, an executive-level technical position. Mike held various roles in his IBM career, including eight years at IBM’s customer-facing website, ibm.com, most recently as the Manager of ibm.com Web Experience, where he led 65 information architects, web designers, webmasters, programmers, and technical architects around the world. Mike's newest book is Outside-In Marketing with world-renowned author James Mathewson. He is co-author of the best-selling Search Engine Marketing, Inc. (with fellow search marketing expert Bill Hunt), now in its Third Edition. Mike is also the author of the acclaimed internet marketing book, Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules, named one of best business books of 2007 by the Miami Herald. Mike founded and writes for Biznology® and writes regularly for other blogs. In addition to Mike’s broad technical background, he holds an Advanced Certificate in Market Management Practice from the Royal UK Charter Institute of Marketing and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He also teaches at Rutgers Business School. He was a Senior Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research and is now a Senior Fellow of The Conference Board. A Certified Speaking Professional, Mike regularly makes speaking appearances. Mike’s previous appearances include keynote speaking appearances worldwide

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