John K Mitchell's Misc Blog

It can be a shock when Google bans a website that you have been sucessful with for several years. The Google Reinclusion request experience anyone article on webmaster world is useful and gives a few pointers as to the way to ask for a reinclusion of the website.

The first response from Google is an automatic reply - don't give up, reply to this keeping the reference in the subject of the email. Then sit back and wait, just like I'm doing now...

The Google Code Jam 2005 is a programming competition for Java, C++, C# and VB programmers. Top prize is $10,000 !

Site for IT and IT Security people : Got Root includes details on firewalls and security scripts

30 day trials of Adobe software, especially useful if you need to convert a digital photo that is in Minolta Raw format - there is a plug in to do this.

An interesting article about using an estate agent on the UK Home Information web site.

Links from good web directories can be some of the best links you can get for your web site. This directory of directories at http://www.directoryarchives.com is where you will find a wide selection of search engine friendly directories. Some of the directories are free to get listed in whilst others may charge a fee.

Houses for sale in Glinton on Glinton.Net.

Google Sitemaps seems to be a good way of feeding all the pages on your website into Google.

I wonder if the other engines will adopt the same format as a standard or whether webmasters will end up haveing multiple copies of site maps. Time will tell I guess.