Category: Office Hours

July 12, 2010

July 8, 2010 Office Hours by Vanessa Fox

Vanessa finds her way back to Seattle to host this week’s office hours.

She dives in to everything that’s happened in the last month- SEO implications with the new Google sitemaps- which lets you submit sitemaps for images, video, news and more. Since Google is the only search engine doing this, does that mean the alliance is over? And what exactly do sitemaps help with, anyway?

Vanessa talks about text associated with images, microformats for display, and

Articles mentioned:
Google XML Sitemaps now Supports Multiple Types. Is the Sitemaps Alliance over?

HTML “text-indent: -9999px” and holding the line

Sitemaps: one file, many content types

Title and name attributes in HTML anchors

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