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There appears to be a Google PageRank update going on at the moment. This blog went from a PR2 to a PR4 - a pretty good jump for one update. Some of my other domains have remained constant, with no pagerank change.

Recently, I added Google Sitemaps to my web developer blog. There’s a nice plugin for Wordpress that will automate the sitemap creation for you. Then all you have to do is register your domain with your Google Sitemaps account, and create a file that validates you own the domain on your server - ie: google_0234080jljsdf.html, and their bot will visit it immediately.

Once nice thing is that you can instantly get indexed, control how often your pages are updated, and you also get some nice statistics about phrases used to search for your site. Saves having to dig through your access.log looking for Google referals.

There’s a new microformats cheat sheet on the loose…

For those new to microformats, take a look at microformats.org, as it explains how you can tag and label things you link to using the “rel” attribute, among others. Some examples include XFN, and hResume, along with hCard - a business card for the web.

There’s a new payment service on the block from India, called Wallet365. One of the differences I see between the other players are that the sender is charged a transaction fee, instead of the merchant/receiver. It is currently 10 rs per transaction…

Discuss it more in the making money forum (registration required).