We exhibited at Macworld 2008 in San Francisco for the first time this year, and had an amazing time doing it.

We started on Sunday with a presentation on search engine optimization at Xsilva’s Daycamp in front of around 60 Lightspeed resellers. We demoed some of our software and how it can help with search engine rankings and bringing in new website traffic.

The show went very well for us, with a lot of existing and new customers checking out our products. We released updates to RAGE Domainer and RAGE SERank with lots of great new features.

The feedback we received for our software was great! Customers were really blown away with some of the features they didn’t know were available to them. People really liked seeing the statistics in RAGE Domainer and got a few surprises when they entered in their website.

All in all I think it was an amazing show. We received a tremendous amount of feedback, made some great connections and got some very favorable media coverage. We doubled our booth size for next year (we are going 10 by 20) and can’t wait to do it again!

We would like to invite you to come meet the RAGE Software team at MacWorld Expo 2008 in San Francisco. We will be exhibiting in booth S-2727 and the entire RAGE team will be there.

Now is your chance to give us your feedback in person. We will be providing free search engine rank reports and custom web site consulting. Just come by our booth with your web site and questions ready.

We will also be demoing new software updates and showing off what we have planned for 2008 and beyond.

We have been provided with a limited number of free Exhibit Hall passes. Join the MacWorld Expo community pages then join our RAGE Software group and I will personally send you a free Exhibit Hall pass. If you sign up, just post a message on my account that you would like the pass or send an email through our support department so I know you need one.

If you miss out on the above offer IDG has also provided us with $10 off the registration fee for an Exhibit Hall pass.

Judging from last year, MacWorld 2008 will be a tremendous success with new products, parties and mingling with other Mac users. We truly look forward to meeting with you and hearing how you have used our software. More details on the event can be found at: http://www.ragesw.com/ragesw-at-macworld-2008/

If you have any questions before the show, feel free to send an email to support.

This morning we finally released RAGE SERank 1.0, an all new application for Mac web site owners to track and manage their search engine rankings. With RAGE SERank you simply add the keywords you want to rank highly for and select from the over 40 search engines to check your search engine rankings.

RAGE SERank will automatically check your rankings and provide a detailed report of where your web site ranks in each search engine for all of the keywords you have entered. RAGE SERank can also be used to check the search engine rankings of your competitors to easily see what keywords they are targeting and ranking highly for. RAGE SERank will keep track of your rankings over time so you can graph changes or go back to any previous rank check.

With the professional version of RAGE SERank you can create customized PDF rank reports that you can use for personal use, or send to your clients or colleagues. The professional version also allows an unlimited number of web sites to be checked.

Download a free trial version of RAGE SERank or order your full standard or professional license.

A few days ago MSN’s Webmaster Tools officially came out of beta. Like Google’s Webmaster Tools, MSN’s tools let you quickly submit your sitemap.xml file that you have created with RAGE Google Sitemap Automator. Once submitted you are provided with search engine feedback including;

• How many of your web pages are indexed in MSN’s search
• The date MSN’s search spiders last crawled your web site
• Which, if any, of your web pages could not be properly indexed
• Your web site’s most popular incoming links

Although you won’t find as many resources and tools that are provided by Google’s Webmaster Tools, you will get some interesting information about how your web site is performing in MSN’s search.

If you already have your sitemap.xml file published on your web site, all you have to do is create your free Windows Live account and follow the simple steps to submitting your sitemap.xml file. The next update to RAGE Google Sitemap Automator will feature an all new way to ensure that your sitemap.xml files are recognized by all major search engines including MSN.

RAGE Domainer 1.1 has just been released. This free update for registered users adds the following new features and enhancements;

[NEW] Full support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
[NEW] Support for additional top-level domains (.in,.cn,.cz,.se)
[NEW] Now remembers list column sizes
[NEW] Clicking AlexaRank loads Alexa.com’s web site
[FIX] Importing CSV domain lists
[FIX] Correctly assigns owner details

RAGE Domainer is the only web developer’s tools for Mac OS X that lets users easily track and manage their domain names while getting an overview of a domain’s popularity and value.

RAGE Domainer 1.1 can be downloaded from the Domainer download page.

RAGE Domainer can be purchased for just $39.95 from RAGE Software’s secure online store.

We had the great opportunity to talk SEO and web site marketing with MacVoices.com Podcast. Chuck of MacVoices spoke with us about;

1. Using popular web development tools including RAGE WebDesign, iWeb and Rapidweaver and how to optimize your web site for search engines.
2. Most effective techniques for achieving higher search engine rankings
3. How to avoid hurting your search engine rankings
4. Awesome new software soon to be released by RAGE Software
5. How you can meet the RAGE team at MacWorld 2008 in San Francisco

Check out the full Podcast at the MacVoices web site.

If you have any further questions, be sure to post them to the RAGE Software discussion forum. We can help you with any web site marketing or search engine question you may have.

We were extremely pleased to find RAGE Domainer chosen as a Staff Pick on Apple’s Mac OS X download pages. It joins RAGE Google Sitemap Automator and RAGE MapDesign on Apple’s Staff Pick list.

Check it out here: Domainer on Apple’s Staff Pick List.

We are extremely happy to finally release version 1.0 of Domainer, a new application for web site owners, marketers and investors to track and manage their domain names.

Domainer is the first, and as of this writing, the only tool for the Mac that gives an overview of a web site’s popularity using Google PageRank, AlexaRank, incoming back links and social tags. With Domainer, you can quickly, and easily, see all important domain details in one easy to use application.

Use RAGE Domainer to manage your domains, track and beat the success of your competitors, and find profitable web sites to buy and sell.

A free download of Domainer can be found here. Domainer is available for purchase immediately through the RAGE Software secure online store for just $39.95 USD.

We look forward to hearing your feedback. Come discuss your thoughts, feature suggestions and any questions you may have for Domainer on the RAGE Discussion forum.

So we’ve been working really hard all summer on some great new updates AND some awesome new products. First and foremost, we have an update on the way for RAGE WebDesign, which I mentioned earlier and RAGE Google Sitemap Automator.

To give you some clues on what’s new, we are going to have to redo all the screen shots on for both products!

Aside from that, we have been working on two amazing new apps. These applications are one of a kind on the Mac. There are no other tools that can do what they do!

So keep checking back and make sure you get our newsletter so you’ll know what’s coming up. If you run a web site, you’ll love these products!

We’ve just released RAGE MapDesign 1.0 today. RAGE MapDesign lets you create image maps that response to user actions such as when users click their mouse down or when their mouse hovers over a certain part of an image. It uses only standards based CSS and HTML so you can be certain that it will work with virtually all major web browsers.

RAGE MapDesign is very easy to use since it is fully WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). You don’t have to know CSS or HTML.

We have included some sample maps and media that you can easily create on the RAGE MapDesign product page. We put a lot of effort into making it as easy to use and possible and giving it a beautiful Mac interface. We look forward to hearing what you think and how you use it.

Last week we also released 15 beautifully designed, CSS and HTML templates. If you have not already seen them, be sure to check them out. Prices range from $14.95 USD to $24.95 USD for a pack of 5.

We’ve got some great products coming and some amazing updates due out this summer. Stay tuned, July will be a big month!