Quicklinks: Sitemaps, “Click Here”, Gack Ink and Win A Zune

Posted on Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Google’s webmaster central reports that it is now even easier to tell them where your sitemap is.
All you have to do now is add the following line into your robots.txt file:
Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
Easy as that!
Gack Ink, the bring your own blog network, announced the latest blogs to join.
Welcome to Denise Kincy Grier’s Writing Journey, Home Office Women, Live Life - Organics and Your Health, The Pleasure of Being a Woman, Middle Zone Musings, Grow Your Writing Business and Work at Home Revolution.
Dawud Miracle demonstrates exactly why you should never use “click here” as your link text.
Apart from destroying certain SEO properties of a link and failing no less than two (that I can think off from the top of my head) points in the WCAG 1.0, it makes a post look ridiculous. Thanks Dawud for making it painfully obvious that you should consider your anchor text every time you link.
Win a Microsoft Zune
John Chow, who’s blog helps you make money on the internet, is giving away a 30GB Microsoft Zune. All you have to do is link to it, like this! It’s worth a go!

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  1. 1April 12th, 2007 at 4:19 am

    Yvonne Russell Says:

    Hi Phil

    Thanks for the welcome to Gack Ink. I look forward to visiting more often, and to getting to know the Gack Ink bloggers.

    All the best

    Yvonne Russell
    Grow Your Writing Business


  2. 2April 12th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    Dawud Miracle Says:

    Phil. Thanks for including my link. The ‘click here’ syndrome needs to stop, I think. It doesn’t do justice to today’s web user. So let’s keep spreading the word to stop the use of click here.


  3. 3April 13th, 2007 at 12:16 am

    Phil Says:

    Yvonne: Congratulations again for being a part of the network. It will be great to get to know you and everyone else too.

    Dawud: I thought you made your point brilliantly and, where your emphasis was on the SEO/link love side of things, I really wanted to add to the point with the accessibility issue you raised too. If only we could get rid of “click here” forever!


  4. 4May 1st, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    Bob Says:

    Hi, I saw that you entered John Chow’s contest for a Zune.
    Would you be interested in winning a free DS Lite?


  5. 5May 2nd, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    Phil Says:

    Hi Bob,

    Thanks for dropping in! Free stuff is always good, I might slip your link into a post sometime soon. Thanks for letting me know.


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