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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.

Its been a while since my last post on this blog. We have had some significant updates including updates to RAGE Google Sitemap Automator and an entirely new product, RAGE ButtonDesign.

We have been working really hard on creating Universal Binaries of all of our software. We now have RAGE Google Sitemap Automator and RAGE Macintosh Explorer working as Universal Binaries. We still have a few minor issues we are working on but you can expect all of our products to be Universal Binary applications soon.

Thank you for your patients while we work out these issues. You can be rest assured that we will be continually making improvements to our products to make sure they run on the latest versions of Mac OS X.

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

We’ve got some really great product updates coming out real soon. We also have a new product which is almost ready for release.

Without saying to much, the new product is for web developers, and as far as I can tell, the only one of its kind that does what it does…whatever that may be…

After a long wait, a new, free update to RAGE Macintosh Explorer is now available. As previously mentioned, this new update brings a new file list view and improved folder updating when files are copied, moved or renamed within the Finder.

It also fixes a few issues with version 4.3.5. You can download it here.

There is a 14 launch, fully functional trial. If you are a registered 4.x user you can download this version for free.

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.

 

 

The last version of RAGE Macintosh Explorer came out more than 6 months ago. We’ve been working really hard on cleaning up the code and adding some requested features. The next version is coming really soon, its being tested by our beta testers right now.

We’ve added much better folder updating when you make a change to a folder in the Finder or from within RAGE Macintosh Explorer. Lots of bugs have been fixed and a new file view has been added.

Check back soon, it is very close to being released.

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.