Ben Griswold on November 16th, 2006

 With the attention that Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google are getting for agreeing on a standard sitemaps protocol, I figured it was probably time I got one in place which meets standard found on sitemaps.org.  Though I’m sure I would have had a lot of fun using the Google Sitemap Generator Python scripts recommended by Google Webmaster Tools, [...]

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Ben Griswold on October 26th, 2006

I recently wrote about Google not indexing my site. One can find johnnycoder.com through Yahoo! and MSN, but I’d really like for Google users to find me. Well, I thought I found a backdoor into getting indexed yesterday… As you may already be aware, Google now let’s us build Custom Search Engines. The idea is [...]

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Ben Griswold on October 23rd, 2006

Are you indexed by Google? Well, JohnnyCoder.com isn’t. Here’s the thing. The URL was submitted a while ago, but it hasn’t made a lick of difference. But I shouldn’t be surprised since Google is very up-front about how they handle submissions. We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the [...]

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Ben Griswold on October 19th, 2006

Have you had a chance to look at Google Code Search? It truly will help you find function definitions and sample code by giving you one place to search publicly accessible code through the use of regular expressions and language and filename filters, but this is taking a backseat to what Code Search can really [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 4th, 2006

Undoubtedly, you have noticed the obnoxious Google Ads sprinkled about the site. I must explain. 1. Though nearly all legitimate bloggers have sites plastered with Ads, this is not my attempt to conform and become a real blogger overnight. 2. This is not a shameless attempt to make a few pennies each month. Granted, some [...]

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