Posts from ‘October, 2007’

I just discovered Google’s Webmaster Tools, which is a nice addition to Google Analytics: add your site (or sites), and Google will give you insight in how it sees your pages:

• See when Googlebot last indexed your home page, and how many pages per day it crawls.
• Analyse your robots.txt, add a sitemap to help Google index your content.
• Find out in what queries pages from your site were returned (and in what position), and which links people clicked on.
• Check out how the PageRank of your pages is performing.
• Learn about all the trouble Googlebot had with your content: HTTP errors, links not found, URLs timing out or unreachable, restrictions by your robot.txt.

An interesting toolbox for webmasters, to help you optimise your site, and get an idea of how you’re performing.

Last Friday, Adam Hyde pressed the big green “go” button for flossmanuals.net: a place to read, write, and remix free manuals for free software. The Netherlands Media Art Institute provided the place and time as part of the opening of the Video Vortex exhibition (they call it their response to Web 2.0). Part of the exhibition is a workshop space for projects, available for a week, and flossmanuals.net is the first one there. Adam also announced a good Board of Advisors that’s just established, and a grant from the Digital Pioneers fund.

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