Archive for September, 2007

Giant Squid status on Squidoo

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

We are proud to have a presence on Squidoo. Members of the Daybreak Web Designs team have published over 100 lenses!

Recently our account has been awarded Giant Squid status on Squidoo. This is another asset that the Daybreak Web Designs team has attained to help provide the best service possible for its customers.

Many of the lenses associated with us serve to boost traffic to our client’s sites and projects that we own. Lenses also generate income and we are proud to donate a portion of that income to worthy causes.

Special recognition goes out to the talented assistants that work for Daybreak Web Designs. Many of these artists and technicians donate countless hours of community service, both here on Squidoo and in the local community.

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Worldwide Charter and Guide Directory

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

For September, we are pleased to announce another in a series of projects by Daybreak Web Designs. The site is entitled “Worldwide Charter and Guide Directory” and is located at www.charter-guide.info.

The project allows business owners such as fishing charters, fishing guides, hunting guides, lodges, nature tour operators, sailing charters and others in the outdoor adventure niche with a variety of tools.

The Worldwide Charter and Guide Directory is the next in a series of outdoor-related websites from Daybreak Web Designs. Being part of a family of related sites is one of the strengths of the site, as human traffic can be directed to the project, offering business owners assurance of their information reaching potential customers. Related sites from Daybreak Web Designs include Maryland – Virginia Saltwater Fishing, www.fresh-seafood.net, www.commercial-fishing.org, www.chincoteague-island.net, www.tidewater-virginia.net and www.virginia-beach-va.net.

For details, see the full press release.

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More on Squidoo

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

A peer’s blog often focuses on the uses of Squidoo, both in SEO and as a source of income.

He was kind enough to publish our thoughts on the subject of Squidoo and how it’s used by the web design community.

View Chuck Huckaby’s Work at Home Business Opportunities blog entry here:

http://work-at-home.business-opportunities.biz/2007/09/10/squidoo-fans-tell-how-its-helping-them-make-money/

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Using Site Maps as a Search Engine Optimization Tool

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

A simple sitemap is an important tool to insure that every page of your site gets indexed.

A sitemap can be a manually coded page that lists all the pages of the site, or can be created via special tools such as www.xml-sitemaps.com

Once sitemaps are created and installed, their locations should be spelled out in a robots.txt file.

Here is information on creation of a robots.txt file which will assist search engine robots in indexing your site:

Each site should include a robots.txt which specifies sitemap locations.

To specify the location of sitemaps, just put a line like this anywhere in your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
or
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.html

Replace the Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/ with the actual full URL. For example, if www.yoursite.com has a sitemap file called sitemap.xml in top level, the reference would be like this:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

If you have more than one sitemaps you can either create a special “sitemaps index” file that links to all of them, then put a link to the sitemaps index file in your robots.txt file.

An simpler process is to simply list more than one sitemaps in the robots.txt file.

Example:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.html

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