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Sitemap play a very important role in the world of SEO, so it is a much has component for your wordpress. But most of us are not really familiar with what is sitemap, how it look like and how to generate it. 

Thank to the Arne Brachhold with the wonderful XML sitemap Generator for wordpress, now you no need to worry how to generate sitemap.

The XML sitemap that generate by this plugin are compliant with the format use by Ask.com, Google, Yahoo and also MSN Search.

Another best part of this plugin is it will help you to generate your sitemap automatically and will submit it to the major search engine such as Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and also MSN Search. You just need to configure how you want your sitemap to include, what to exclude, the location of the sitemap, that’s all.

Click here to go to XML Sitemap Generator home page
Click here to download XML Sitemap Generator for wordpress > 2.1 (recommended)
Click here to download XML Sitemap Generator for wordpress < 2.1 (discontinued)

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Google just announced their new Google Earth version 5.0. The most important added features for version 5.0 is the “Ocean”.

Now the user of Google Earth 5.0 with ocean are allow to dive beneath the water surface and explore the 3D underwater terrain, or browse lots of ocean-related content contributed by researchers.

Not only that, Google Earth 5.0also allow you to discover the historical imagery from around the globe to let you travel back the time to know the earth better.

You may also recording your virtual world travel using the audio, voice and video recording features in Google Earth. You may play back the tour after that or share with your friend.

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Good news for the 4D lover, now you can check all the 4D result and statistics on 4D2U.com. This is Malaysia’s first and most completed 4D results statistics website.

The free and user friendly interface has make 4D2U.com become most popular websites not only in Malaysia, but also other country like Singapore.

You may check your result here after the official result released. Besides that, you may also check the result using the SMS services, just key in the short code as show in the website.

Click here to go to 4D2U.com

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Jandrick from Live Search Webmaster Center has recommend some of the wonderful tips that we may need to take into a consideration in order to optimize our web site for the search engine.

Here are some of his tips for all the webmaster:

• Canonicalization/Normalization. That means exposing URL per piece of content to the engines.

• Add or remove the trailing /
  • http://tech.david-cheong.com/ TO http://tech.david-cheong.com

• Remove the index or default
  • http://tech.david-cheong.com/default.aspx TO http://tech.david-cheong.com
  • http://tech.david-cheong.com/en/us/default.aspx TO http://tech.david-cheong.com/en/us

• Avoid CamelCase — convert your text to lower case
  • http://tech.david-cheong.com/Google/ TO http://tech.david-cheong.com/google

• Remove query string variables or rewrite to readable URLs
  • http://tech.david-cheong.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99&displaylang=en TO http://tech.david-cheong.com/downloads/en/family/ab99

• Remove Port Numbers
  • http://tech.david-cheong.com:8080/ TO http://tech.david-cheong.com

• Avoid exposing secure HTTPS version
  • https://tech.david-cheong.net/en/us/ TO http://tech.david-cheong.com/en/us

There are still a lot of tips given by Jandrick at the Microsoft Webmaster central blog

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Most of the SEO guru will recommend that try to minimize the use of image if you wish to maximize your web site SEO to the search engine. This is because the search engine spider can only read text, but cannot see the images. 

But a picture worth then a thousand word, with the text + image, you may help your reader to understand your topic better. So please remeber that whenever you use any images in your blog or web site, please add your keyword to your images alt-tags. 

With the Alt tags on your images, then only the search engine spider can “SEE” your images. But please remember not to spam your keyword, else you will be ban by the search engine.

What is Alt tag for images?

Alt is the images attributes that use to display text in case of someone that visit your page with the browser that can’t show images, or in case they have image loading turning off so that they can load the page faster. So they will see the empty boxes with your ALT tag as the text in the boxes to show what the image actually is.

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Are you ever think of what if the Google search result are not showing in the boring list format with only the blue color as the link, black color as the short description, and green color as the url for the web site? What if the Google search result will look like if everything is converte to 3-D view?

If you can’t imagine how it look like, then you should have a look on Search Cube. Created and maintenace by  Symmetri, a Web and software developement company and power by Google Ajax Search, Search-cube is actually the visually presentation’s search engine, it display the search result in the 3-D cube interface and it can show previews of up to 96 websites, including videos and images.

Whenever you key in any search keyword, the result result will appear in the 3-D cube that show the preview of up to 36 thumbnails.

To control or navigate the 3-D search result cube, just press the [up], [down], [left], [right] button or drag the cube using [Shit] + mouse. To visit the search result page, just click on the thumbnail on the search rsult cube.

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Wikimapia is a useful web 2.0 portal which their main idea is to “describe the whole planet Earth”. Wikimapia was created by founder Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev inspired by Google Maps and Wikipedia. This is a very good idea for all the Internet user especially for those who are always travel or who have no money to travel around.

For the frequence traveller, you may get your detination path via Wikimapia. In the other hand, for those people like me who have insufficiance fund to travel around the world yet still dreaming of travel, then wikimapia may help you to fulfil your dream.

The best part of Wikimapia is every people in the world may help to place the location, so that other people may meet find and meet the location easily. Besides map the place on the Earth, you may also capture the photo, add the description, title in order to help to describe the world better.

It also provide few useful features such as you may view the location in the Map View, Setellite View, terrain view or hybrid. You may also filter out the place highligh by other poeple while you are enjoining your “world jouney”. 

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Just found out this useful search engine for the student and researchers – RefSeek. It still in the beta version at this point of time.

 
RefSeek is a web search engine design purposely for student and research. Their main motive is to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek cliam that they search more then one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals and newspapers. 

 
In term of the user interface, RefSeek have very simple and clear user interface with only the keyword entering text box at the main page.

 
RefSeek does not claim to offer more results than Google; instead, it’s only indexes articles from scientific publications and excludes any results not related to science, research and academia which is a big plus point when you are searching for specific material.

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Need to search PDF file online? You may try out the PDF search engine. It allow you to search the form, ebook, sheet, catalog online for free.

Just key in the keyword as how you work with other search engine, after you get the result, you may either download the PDF file to your computer or just view the PDF file using the online PDF viewer.

 
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