Difficult as it may be to believe, but by January of 2007, Google is still unable to recognize when URLs that obviously lead to the same page are in fact the same page. So what’s a URL, and what’s the problem here?
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Top Ten Easiest Code Tweaks To Improve Your Site’s Search Engine Performance
A unique, custom title tag on every page in the site
...Keep reading »Boxing the Sandbox
Is there a sandbox or is there not? Is the question purely one of semantics? Let’s see what Googler Matt Cutts actually had to say:
...Keep reading »SEO Hacking for Fun and Profit
Timing is everything. I launched this blog on Jan. 11. On about the 15th, some crazy hacker started hitting SEO-related blogs, using a security vulnerability discovered in the WordPress blog software. Just my luck. The story of my life.
...Keep reading »Choosing a domain name
You’ve decided your business needs a web site. Good, that’s the first step. You have a lot of additional steps to get through before you actually have a web site. One of those steps is selecting a domain name for your site.
...Keep reading »Linkbait: What is it?
Web sites need inbound links to do well in search engines. One-way, unpaid-for links are clearly the types of links the search engines prefer. How does one go about getting such links?
...Keep reading »On-page SEO: What matters, what doesn’t
My quick rundown: Title tag: Yes, this one’s a biggie. All indications are that the title of the page matters a lot to Google and the other SEs. Every page on a web site should have well-written title that accurately summarizes the page’s main focus.
...Keep reading »Google Maps
Yesterday I sniped at Google with my No NoFollow post, but today I’m here to praise Google. The technology that powers Google Maps is so very cool, and the very best thing about it, in my opinion, is that Google lets us use that technology right on our very own web sites!
...Keep reading »META Description Tags
The keywords meta tag seems to get a lot of attention, but the description meta tag (meta content=”This is the description” name=”description” /) is one that actually matters. Not for search engine optimization in the sense of helping a page appear higher in the search results.
...Keep reading »No NoFollow
I just edited the files in my wordpress template to remove all traces of the rel=”nofollow” attribute from links in this blog. All links, including those in comments and signatures, are now your basic bog-standard “follow” links.
...Keep reading »META Keyword Tags and Search Engines
I develop web sites for a living. One of my priorities is building search-engine-friendly sites that follow best practices for making sure that sites are easily spiderable by the search engine bots, and that the key on-page elements are present and used appropriately.
...Keep reading »Missing images
For about the umpteenth time, this morning I responded to a question on a newsgroup by some poor soul who didn’t understand why the images weren’t showing up on his web page. The links were correct. The images were uploaded to the correct directory. But when he viewed his page in his browser, the images […]
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