Philip Nicosia

Before in a previous post I mentioned I couldn’t find a way to submit a reinclusion request to Google. In order to do this you had to have a Google Sitemaps account and I couldn’t find the link to do this.

Well today I logged into my Google Sitemaps account and found where the link is. In the top right hand corner there is a drop down menu that says + Tools and clicking this there is a link to submit a reinclusion request now. I may have missed this before or it was missed by Google and they have now added it back in I don’t know.

The good news of course is that now you can submit a reinclusion request without any problems although the link is kind of hidden a bit. At least it is there.

Last night I thought that Glyn may have been thrown out of the Big Brother House as his punishment for climbing onto the roof the other day.

Luckily for him Big Brother chose to disallow him from the housemates choosing who from next door they wanted to come back. I doubt it would have made any difference to their decision and last night Nikki returned and was reunited with Pete.

I’m glad Glyn wasn’t thrown out but I don’t think he will win. My guess is that it will be between Nikki and Pete.

After Glyn’s moment of madness climbing on the roof of the Big Brother house in an attempt to get to see the house mates next door Big Brother told him that he would learn what his punishment would be on Friday. Coincidently that is eviction day and I hope they don’t throw out. 

I like Glyn in the house. Although he is the most intelligent person there he often comes across as the dumbest with his child like naivety. I hope he makes it to the end.

Not so much a gadget but more a work of art and a great piece of engineering.

The Geochron Kilburg clock allows you to see what time it is anywhere in the world at a glance.

The clock features a moving map which shows areas of day and night making a complete cycle every 24 hours and gradually changes shape with the seasons.

I managed to pick this one up on Ebay at a considerable saving on the retail price (for a clock they are expensive) and it has been worth every penny. It now hangs on the wall above my desk so if ever I need to know if someone is likely to be awake across the world I can just glance up and see instantly what time it is.

It’s great for planning holidays as well locating where a country is without having to get the atlas out.

Maybe just a glitch or possibly intentional due to demand they can’t cope with but today I noticed you can’t file a reinclusion request to Google. If you look at Google’s webmaster support page it says”

If your site has violated our webmaster guidelines, and you’ve made changes to it so that it meets our guidelines, you can request reinclusion and we’ll evaluate your site.To request reinclusion, log in to Google Sitemaps, choose the “Request reinclusion” link, and follow the steps outlined there.”

Now here is where the problem is. I can’t find a “request reinclusion” link. Does that mean that I don’t need to or is it something that has been missed. It used to be there as I have seen it in the past but this morning when I looked it’s gone.

It’s also interesting to see that you now need to have a Google webmasters account in order to submit a reinclusion request. Is this another way of pushing webmasters to use sitemaps?

Of course you don’t need to submit sitemaps when you do have a Google Sitemaps account and there are other benefits too like their robots.txt checker, reporting of errors on your site, choosing your preferred domain with or without www, etc so it is still worthwhile.

Its just a shame you can’t submit a reinclusion request to Google at the moment.