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Thanks Emmanuel Pays, I have discovered 2 years ago a simple and great CMS named CMS Made Simple. A few days ago, I have noticed that the main website has been totaly redesigned : final result seems fresh and nice !

In addition, there are now some new features for this CMS which enable to be very modulate, such as blog, pictures album, forms or glossary implementation…

Even if number of plugins and community are not so big as Wordpress, I advise you to test this CMS, which provides a fast and easy way to create a website and manage its contents.

Website Grader is a Seo Web Tool which analyzes your website according many criterias, to obtain further information about your Search Engine Optimization :

• Google Page Rank : nowadays, this criteria is not so pertinent than 1 or 2 years ago unless sponsored links…
• Webpage structure : Meta data analyzind and analytics tool detection.
• Domain name : some news about your domain name.
• Heading summary : Website Grader analyzes your header and detect h1, h2, h3 attributes…
• Pictures information : the tool detect pictures of your home and see if alt attribute is fill.
• Number of indexed pages with Google : humpf…this is just result of the following command : “site:website_name”.
• Google Crawl date : this tool tells you when Google crawled your website last time. You have this information with Google Webmaster tools too.
• RSS : rss detection and information about Bloglines subscribers.
• Inbound links : how many sites link your website ?
• Technorati ranking : just a number : the Technorati Rank.
• Del.icio.us bookmarks : how many people have bookmarked your website ?
• Readability level : this analyze mesures (I don’t know how) the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content.
• Digg.com submission summary : check if you or someone has submitted articles of your website to Digg.

The Google Analytics Team announced some features for next version of the tool :

• Tracking of site search : “find out what people search for on your site and where these searches lead”.
• Event Tracking capability : “these new reports are designed to help you understand how people use and interact with Ajax, Flash and multimedia on your site without artificially increasing your pageview metrics.”
• Outbound Link Tracking : report on links visitors clicked on your site that direct them to another site.

The first one will be available to everyone and the two others will be limited beta tests.

In addition, Urchin Software is announced too : “Urchin is a software product that you run on your own servers. Its reporting interface is similar to the previous Google Analytics interface.”

You know I really like the World of Search Engine Optimization. It is my main job and I am enjoy to do technological intelligence about SEO. Here are five seo blogs I appreciate to read every day :

Pandia Search Engine : a good blog with a lot of interesting news in SEO and Search Engines.

SEO by the SEA : blog of Bill Slawski, director of Search Marketing at KeyRelevance.

SEOmoz : a good website about SEO. Behind the blog there is a team and they propose often some web tools in SEO. Unfortunately, some of them are not free…

Bruceclay : a very good blog written by an Internet Business Consultant : Bruce Clay.

ComScore : it is not exactly a blog but a press center. It’s not the fifth blog I like the most. However, ComeScore represents a very useful source for Search Mesuring Information.

The Google Webmaster Central Blog has published a news concerning Meta Description, a important element of snippet. Thus, this news explains why it is pertinent to write a good Meta Description on each page of your Website. Here is index of this Google news :

1. Why does Google care about meta descriptions ?
2. What are some good meta description strategies?
3. Differentiate the descriptions for different pages.
4. Include clearly tagged facts in the description.
5. Programmatically generate descriptions.
6. Use quality descriptions.

I have noticed a good example in this article :

Not as desirable:

<META NAME=”Description” CONTENT=”[domain name redacted]
: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7): Books: J. K. Rowling,Mary GrandPré by J. K. Rowling,Mary GrandPré”>

There are a number of reasons this meta description wouldn’t work well as a snippet on our search results page:

• The title of the book is complete duplication of information already in the page title.
• Information within the description itself is duplicated (J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré are each listed twice).
• None of the information in the description is clearly identified; who is Mary GrandPré?
• The missing spacing and overuse of colons makes the description hard to read.

All of this means that the average person viewing a Google results page — who might spend under a second scanning any given snippet — is likely to skip this result. As an alternative, consider the meta description below.

Much nicer:

<META NAME=”Description” CONTENT=”Author: J. K. Rowling, Illustrator: Mary GrandPré, Category: Books, Price: $17.99, Length: 784 pages”>

What’s changed? No duplication, more information, and everything is clearly tagged and separated. No real additional work is required to generate something of this quality: the price and length are the only new data, and they are already displayed on the site.