Would it be a good idea to post a set of FAQs weekly here in this group? I know Sebastian has put together lots of high level information, perhaps we could combine part of that (and perhaps make it a bit simpler, with links to his detailed information and perhaps other links as well) and post it as a weekly posting here. I think that it could solve many of the repetitive postings here (which I sometimes answer a bit "roughly", sorry <shameful>).
What do you think? Or is a weekly posting still not enough for those who do not scroll back a few days? (no, please not daily :-))
Damn ... I'm going to do a pretty similar thing ;)
>From reponse to my stuff, reading forums and this group I came to the
conclusion that we need a place where one can get short pieces of information --summaries-- along with links to detailed stuff. What I want to do is this:
An index of topics with a few related questions plus a very short article and links, e.g.
Title: Sitemaps and domain names Related questions: Why does Google decline so many URLs; Why is www and non-www different; Why can't I see my stats for www.example.com under my example.com sitemap; What is a canonical name; ... Article: A short explanation of the technical difference and a list of all points of failure regarding domain/subdomain mismatches Links: Links to related resources like google.com/.../faq.html#fragment-identifier johannesmueller.com/gs/...#fragment-identifier mysite/article...#fragment-identifier sitemaps-blog/particular-post.html where the link points directly to the related info, not a table of contents or whatever. Contributors: Links to all folks who have contributed to the knowledge base (item)
My project title is "Google Sitemaps Knowledge Base", because there is enough FAQ-stuff out there. I've already started with the scripting. Actually, I wanted to have a prototype before I ask for contributions...
Damn ... I'm going to do a pretty similar thing ;)
>From reponse to my stuff, reading forums and this group I came to the
conclusion that we need a place where one can get short pieces of information --summaries-- along with links to detailed stuff. What I want to do is this:
An index of topics with a few related questions plus a very short article and links, e.g.
Title: Sitemaps and domain names Related questions: Why does Google decline so many URLs; Why is www and non-www different; Why can't I see my stats for www.example.com under my example.com sitemap; What is a canonical name; ... Article: A short explanation of the technical difference and a list of all points of failure regarding domain/subdomain mismatches Links: Links to related resources like google.com/.../faq.html#fragment-identifier johannesmueller.com/gs/...#fragment-identifier mysite/article...#fragment-identifier sitemaps-blog/particular-post.html where the link points directly to the related info, not a table of contents or whatever. Contributors: Links to all folks who have contributed to the knowledge base (item)
My project title is "Google Sitemaps Knowledge Base", because there is enough FAQ-stuff out there. I've already started with the scripting. Actually, I wanted to have a prototype before I ask for contributions...
Of course FAQs would be a wonderful idea. Although... if it can be done such that we can still know how frequent those questions are (a little bit like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle).
I think it is great how topics of large interest in this group are also important things related to, but not exactly, sitemaps, like redirections, page rank, links, robots.txt, etc. The robots.txt file... I hope you do not mind me using this thread to state the obvious: it is a good idea to specify in the robots.txt file URLs out of bounds in such a way as not to give up the pathway for pages meant to stay hidden from public access (like password protected pages etc.) I just saw a spider WebVulnCrawl / WebVulnScan ( IP address 216.179.125.69 ) in my access logs scanning my robots.txt file and all entries in it. Apparently it is a spider that checks vulnerability of web servers to spam redirection. Did anyone hear of this WebVuln crawler? Are there some guidelines of what we can do to improve resistance of our websites to whatever it is that this crawler is scanning for?
> Would it be a good idea to post a set of FAQs weekly here in this > group? I know Sebastian has put together lots of high level > information, perhaps we could combine part of that (and perhaps make it > a bit simpler, with links to his detailed information and perhaps other > links as well) and post it as a weekly posting here. I think that it > could solve many of the repetitive postings here (which I sometimes > answer a bit "roughly", sorry <shameful>).
> What do you think? Or is a weekly posting still not enough for those > who do not scroll back a few days? (no, please not daily :-))
Sebastian, I think your idea is great...any group such as this manages to rehash the same four or five topics over and over again, ineffectively, and that's precisely what a knowledgebase would correct. Its pretty sad that Google hasn't seen fit to do this...it's really their job, but since they apparently don't see it that way, it would be great for you to step up to the plate.
swizzlestick wrote: > Sebastian, I think your idea is great...any group such as this manages > to rehash the same four or five topics over and over again, > ineffectively, and that's precisely what a knowledgebase would correct. > Its pretty sad that Google hasn't seen fit to do this...it's really > their job, but since they apparently don't see it that way, it would be > great for you to step up to the plate.
