Archive for August, 2007

Build Sitemaps for Websites Automatically with GSiteCrawler

 When I build sitemaps for websites, I like to use the program GSiteCrawler from GSiteCrawler.com.  It sends a bot through your website and then helps you build both a Google and Yahoo! friendly sitemap.

The program cruises through the building of a sitemap or even a robots.txt file for your site.

It will even connect to your site via ftp and upload the file automatically if you want to do that or you can upload the sitemap manually.

You can also create an html Sitemap file and complete many other functions as well.

Check out the Features :: GSiteCrawler

Note. I do not recommend this product for a WordPress blog.  For that, I’d recommend a plugin.

PeekYou.com Still Seeking The Right Target

As a search engine junkie, I love to search for information that is imperative to my marketing projects.

My associate recently was given the mission to organize her family
reunion.    She went to different search engines to find any
information relating to her kinfolk.  She struggled through the normal search for people through MySpace and Facebook profiles, and genealogy sites.  It just wasn’t efficient.

I remembered the beta version of search engine Peekyou had just been released.

Decided to assist her in trying it out.  (fyi-  Peekyou.com is categorized as a specialized search engine with something like a phonebook database.)

As the search for her kinfolk went on, she found the Peekyou search engine
to be fun, easy and efficient.   But it has some minor miles to go in finding
information on people.  We ran a series of tests and found all of
those who were interested in putting their lives on-line.   Peekyou.com
has over 50 Million Profiles in  their Beta system (including my own, which I did not enter, but did update).

After a hr of test drive, I believe Peekyou holds great promises of being a player in this niche of finding people.  With some more additions of detailed profiles,  it will be taken seriously as a search engine of people. 

I give it a 3.9 stars out of 5 stars.

Explore the Sky with Google Earth’s New free online Tool!

Check out this quick video to see how you can use Google Earth’s new and improved version to see the sky from a specific point on Earth.

Just input your geographic location and then look up to the sky and start zooming and scrolling your way around the Universe.

To use Google Earth, you need to donwload the free Google Pack (below) direct from Google. Don’t worry its a free and easy install

The Google Pack also includes these other free programs(You can add or drop any of these programs from your own download):