We are very excited to announce the first beta of MailShoot, a powerful newsletter and subscription management software. MailShoot will let you instantly create an online subscription form for your website, no programming skills necessary, where your visitors can subscribe to your newsletter. It even works with iWeb websites hosted on MobileMe.
From there, you can quickly and easily keep your visitors up to date with periodic email updates keeping them coming back to your website.
We have released the first beta version on Trybeta. Users who submit valuable feedback will get a free license when the final version is released. Just sign up as a beta tester to Trybeta below;
Domainer 1.9.6 has just been released with important fixes for importing domains from CSV files and syncing domain expiration dates with iCal.
Domainer is the fully featured domain management tool for Mac OS X. Providing the ability to track and manage domain details and important SEO stats for an unlimited number of websites.
Domainer comes with a free trial and costs just $39.95 USD for the full version.
We are extremely proud to introduce WebDesign 3.0, a major update to our web authoring and html editing software for Mac OS X. In development for a few years now, WebDesign 3.0 includes many new features including a redesigned user interface, over 20 professionally designed website templates, live side-by-side website previews and much more.
This release of WebDesign is the biggest yet. We focused all of our attention on making it easy for beginners to design their first website while giving power users the features they need to create and edit their existing sites. By providing website templates, users now have a starting point to base their websites off of so they can get their site up as quickly as possible. The live side-by-side web page previews show you exactly what your website will look like as you build it.
We wanted to create a tool that provided a great transition between a web builder like iWeb or RapidWeaver to an HTML editor that didn’t require you to be a coding expert. All the essential tools are now available to you to create that professional, fast loading website.
Check out the free, fully featured trial version and get your website up and running today.
One of the things that many webmaster don’t realize is how vulnerable their website becomes when they start using social networking scripts such as forums and blogs to help build communities around their website. Although it is a very good idea to integrate these scripts on your site, when doing so you can potentially give your visitors access to sensitive parts of your website that they would normally not have
Since many blogs and forums are open source, malicious users have full access to the source code and can find vulnerabilities or take advantage of how a system works in order to gain access to protected pages on your site, spam your site, or use your site to help get your visitors to their site.
New versions of your installed blogs, forums and other software
Spammy or abused user-generated content
Abused forum pages or egregious amounts of comment spam
Suspected hacking
This is very important to keep track of because if your site has been hacked Google will either remove your website completely from their search index or warn users every time they click your site in their search results. This can dramatically affect your reputation and prevent users from visiting your site.
A Google Webmaster Tools account is free to set up. You should submit your XML Sitemap file in order to get your website listed in Google and help Google’s crawler access the important pages on your website.
WebCrusher 1.7 has just been released and brings a number of new features and enhancements. Firstly this update will optimize iWeb built sites much faster than before because it can intelligently determine which files are modified and which aren’t (since iWeb always updates all pages when you export a site, this is actually not an easy thing to do).
It also improves publishing speed when uploading to your FTP or MobileMe server. In addition it fixes problems with PNG files not being optimized which makes it a recommended update for all users. This update is free for all registered users.
Late last year Google announced that the speed of a website will play a factor in how it ranks in their search results. They have started an initiative to speed up the web and offer many tips and tricks for speeding up a website’s load time. Fortunately WebCrusher can do many of the recommended speed optimizations for you automatically.
If you have created your XML Sitemap file and submitted it Google Webmaster Tools, you will also see the new Page Speed tests Google has implemented for your site. You should login to your Google Webmaster Tools account and see how your website performs relative to other sites in your industry.
Now its not only important to have your website load quickly for your visitors, but it’s also important for your search engine rankings too.
A question that often comes up is why a website is not yet in search engines, or if it has been added to search engines, why isn’t it showing up for the keywords I want it to. These questions can be answered by looking at the data provided by Google Webmaster Tools. By creating an XML Sitemap file and submitting it to Google Webmaster Tools, you can quickly and easily learn the answers to this questions.
Some of the questions covered by the article include;
Why hasn’t Google indexed my website yet?
Does my site appear relevant to Google for my targeted terms or niche?
Why am I not getting clicks from Google?
Has my website been hacked?
Does my website load fast compared to other websites?
Pay special attention to the last question, how fast your website loads. This will become an important search engine ranking factor in early 2010. This has been confirmed by manysources already, that is why Google provides a site speed analysis test in their Google Webmaster Tools.
Of course, you can already be ahead of the game with WebCrusher, which will instantly speed up your website so it loads as fast as possible in all web browsers.
Your meta description tag is a short description used to describe each page on your website. Although most major search engines do not use it to determine where your website ranks in their search results, they do use it in their search results to give searchers an idea of what your page is all about.
A good meta description tag can entice searchers to visit your website, over some of the other listed results. Basically it’s used to quickly grab the attention of a searcher so that they click your link in the search results.
For years, if you left out a meta description tag, or your meta description tag did not properly describe your page, Google would attempt to find more relevant snippets in your webpage content. of course, this caused a problem because now you have no control over what’s displayed in Google’s search results. Leaving it up to a computer (Google’s indexing software), means you never know whether or not it will entice people to click your link, or even if it would make sense.
Recently, Google has started doing the same thing with Title tags. Title tags are what you see at the very top of your web browser when you visit a webpage. They are probably the most important on-page optimization you can make on each of your webpages. If you leave your title tag out, or if you do not have a title tag that accurately describes your webpage, Google will attempt to change it to something more relevant. Of course, this causes the same issue with the meta description tag.
A good title tag has the following characteristics;
It accurately describes what is one the corresponding webpage
It is between 60 and 120 characters long
It includes 2-3 keywords or keyword phrases that you want to rank well for
It’s different for every one of your pages
You can watch Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team, talk about this change below.
With a free Google Webmaster Tools account and XML Sitemap, Google will give you advice and feedback on all your title and meta tags. Just check your Google Webmaster Tools account and click the Diagnostics tab and then the HTML Suggestions tab on the left hand side.
For iWeb users, make sure you use iWeb SEO Tool to add unique title tags and meta tags to each of your pages to properly follow Google’s guidelines.
We are happy to announce an all new update to WebCrusher, the most powerful website optimizer for Mac OS X.
WebCrusher 1.6 will now only optimize modified files since the last optimization making the entire optimization faster much faster than before. It also adds improved support for MobileMe servers, allowing for much faster publishing.
Version 1.6 also improves stability on Snow Leopard and is a free update for registered users.
Check out the all new update and make sure your visitors aren’t waiting too long for your website to load.
Google recently updated Google Webmaster Tools with an all new keyword tool. Just like before, you get a list of your most prevalent keywords on your site except now you get additional information like the significants of the keywords and where the top 10 pages that the keyword can be found on.
Just click the Keywords link under “Your web site on the web” in your Google Webmaster Tools account. You will see a list of keywords just as before, except now a new significance column is also displayed. Click any of your keywords to see how many times they occur on your entire site and the top ten pages they occur on.
One great use of this feature is to help find out if your website has been hacked, and if so, where the affected pages are.
Usually when a spammer hacks your website they will load your site up with random keywords related to what they are trying to sell. Then they will link to the hacked pages from other pages on other websites they have hacked. With this new keyword tool you can not only discover whether or not your site has been hacked (loaded with spam keywords), but you can now see exactly which pages have been affected.
The above method is used commonly on sites with community driven resources such as forums, blogs, or other social networking scripts. Always make sure this has not happened with your site with this new Keywords Tool. If it has, this is something you need to fix ASAP because it may get your banned from Google and other search engines.
Check out this new addition to Google Webmaster Tools account. Make sure you have created your XML Sitemap file and submitted to your Webmaster Tools account.
We’re happy to announce a major update to WebDesign, our flagship web site design and html editor for Mac OS X. WebDesign 3.0 includes many new features including live, side by side webpage previews, built in website templates, a completely rewritten FTP client that supports secure FTP and much more.
You will notice an interface facelift as well with this new update which makes it extremely easy to insert common HTML elements such as links, images, tables, style changes and more.
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