Sunday, July 31, 2005

RSS feeds on Google Personalized Home

The Google Personalized home pages now allow you to add custom content, like blog RSS feeds.

Click "Add Content" in the upper left hand corner then click "Create a Section" in the lower left.

Put the RSS feed in the form field and click, "Go."

Want to try it out? Put this feed url in the form - http://googleholism.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Tips to help the Google help your site

Here's a page of "Google Ranking Factors".

The two things that I'd add are these:
1 - the distinction between "good" search engine optimization and "spam" is that "good" optimization techniques produce a page that is valuable to readers and then help the Google spider to find it. Bad techniques attempt to trick the spider into thinking the page is more valuable than it really is.

2 - The most important good techniques in the list really come down to producing a page with good content that people will want to link to for its own sake. Build good original content and build an incoming link base at a natural pace over time without any of the reciprocal link scams.

Hat tip to the Problogger.

Monday, July 25, 2005

Make your own Google

Darren at ProBlogger.net points to this nifty tool that lets you make your own mini-Google.

Google Logo Maker

Try it fast, it may not be around long.