Recently Google updated their Webmaster Tools account with more data and a revamped Interface. Personally I find the new interface to be much easier to use.

The biggest addition is a web site feed subscriber stats section. You can see the subscriber stats from the Statistics tab.

The all new subscriber stats give you details about how many people subscribe to your web site feeds, such as RSS and atom feeds, through Google services. Although this won’t give you the total number of subscribers since not everyone is using Google tools to subscribe to your feeds, it does provide a nice overview and a gauge at how popular your feed actually is.

If you are unsure what a feed actually is, or you are interested in learning how to get more subscribers to your feeds through Google, there is a Google help page describing how to set up and track site feeds

If you don’t yet have a Google Webmaster Tools account, or have your XML sitemap up, do so now with RAGE Google Sitemap Automator. XML Sitemaps help you get your web site indexed faster and more thoroughly, giving you much more control on how search engines find and index your web site.

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!

In version 1.5 of RAGE Google Sitemap Automator there is a small problem which will display a bug report message on launch if you create FTP bookmarks without entering a default path. This has been fixed for the next free update which is due out very soon.

If you would like to try the latest beta version, just sign up at the URL below.

TryBeta

Well we’ve finally done it. We have released our first Universal Application.

Although it did take us a while it doesn’t mean that this is what you can expect from all of our other applications. We already have RAGE ButtonDesign and RAGE Macintosh Explorer running natively on Intel Macs here. We just don’t want to release an update only offering native Intel compatibility.

In fact you can sign up to our beta program at the URL below and start testing it for yourself. Just create your login and you can begin testing;

http://www.trybeta.com/home/

We hope to get an update to RAGE Macintosh Explorer out before the holiday season. Not only will it be a Universal Binary, but we have also added some nice new features and fixed some annoying bugs.

Great news today from the top search engine giants. According to TechCrunch Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have announced an agreement on the sitemaps protocol created by Google.

It’s great to hear that these three competitors have worked together for the benefit of Internet users. This will greatly enhance the ability of web developers to let all major search engines know which of their web site’s pages are important and how often they are updated. I hope this leads to more relevant results from these search engines based on the information provided by web site owners.

It is also likely the sitemap protocol will be expanded to add more features and give more control to web site owners over what kind of information the search engines store about each web site.

What does this mean for RAGE Google Sitemap Automator users? Your sitemaps will now be recognized by Yahoo and Microsoft in addition to Google. Further, any search engine can decide to support sitemaps which means your sitemap has just become that much more important for your search engine ranking strategy.

If you have already created your sitemap in RAGE Google Sitemap Automator you do not have to change a thing. Your sitemaps will already be compatible with Yahoo and Microsoft’s search engine.

We will be adding features to make it much easier to submit your sitemaps to Yahoo and Microsoft. We will also obviously adjust the name once these features are added to better reflect the programs new features.

More information on the changes can be found at sitemaps.org.

We will be posting more details as they become available. A significant update to RAGE Google Sitemap Automator will be released very soon. We have added some great new features that will make creating and uploading your sitemaps much easier. We are just fine tuning its performance for Intel computers.

A new version of RAGE Google Sitemap Automator is out. Its got a new parsing engine which can find more links on your page such as those in image maps, frames and meta redirect pages. If you were getting errors saying that no web pages could be found, this update should help a lot.

It also allows you to prevent certain pages from being scanned for links such as images. Images can still be added but they will not be downloaded or scanned for links.

Check it out here;

http://www.ragesw.com/products/googlesitemap.html

About a week ago the Google Sitemap team posted a long interview on their blog which discusses the future of sitemaps. It also talks about some features and common problems. You can check it out here;

Google Sitemap Team Interview

Its been a long few months since the first release of RAGE Google Sitemap Automator. We just released version 1.1 and its a whole lot faster as previously mentioned. If you have an older version, or downloaded one of the betas, you’ve got to update to the final 1.1 release.

It fixes a lot of issues, even since the last beta was sent out. So if you don’t already have it you can download it here;

http://www.ragesw.com/products/googlesitemap.html

The update is free for registered users. Otherwise you can download the demo and try it out on your site.

We have a lot of new features planned for future versions. If you have any requests, just post it on the RAGE Discussions forum or send us an email.

 

 

Finally, the crash has been fixed and was due to an underlying memory leak in the database used to store the web pages that were scanned.

We have upgraded to a new database and reworked alot of the code. There will have to be a few more modifications to the underlying DB engine until everything is working smoothly again. I think another round of beta testing is going to be required because of how much was changed.

The new database is supposed to be faster and more stable. We’ll see how it holds out.

Otherwise, the update is looking a lot better. It should be available really soon if no more larger issues come up.

Its been a few months since the initial release of RAGE Google Sitemap Automator. We have an internal beta that has been in testing for a long time now. Its working much faster than version 1.0 and has the ability to open old site files and modify the filters.

The problem is, there’s a crash that occurs after about 1500 unique web pages get scanned. This crash is present in the current version but happens much quicker (maybe around 700 unique web pages).

This is the last problem that is preventing RAGE Google Sitemap Automator 1.1 from being released. So if you have encountered this crash, we are working on a fix. Hopefully a new version will be available really soon. If you want to try the beta version just send an email.