I would like to take the time to talk about Google Site Maps. This amazingly useful tool provided by Google gives web folk such as myself a way to make my site more “Google friendly”.

With the ability to see where your site ranks with Google, webmasters are given the opportunity to strategicly plan and optimize there website and take control over their keyword campaign. At the very least, you can make sure Google has access to crawl your site. The Google Webmasters Tool help page provides a great overview of the available features.

I spend a lot of time browsing through and analyzing newspaper web sites. There are a few sites that I visit daily and I would like to share them with my readers:

* The Globe And Mail
* The Washington Post
* Times Online

The Globe’s site is my absolute favorite newspaper website. It provides a nice blend of clean design, semantic mark-up and unobtrusive ad positioning. I would love to hear about your favorite newspaper sites so please leave a comment.