Not indexed by Google? Check your robots.txt file…
Timeouts on robots.txt can be deadly... A couple months ago we took over a consumer health content web site for one of our clients. We had designed the site, but they're a fairly large company with a...
View ArticleKeep Control of Your Feed Subscribers AND Use FeedBurner
One of the things Rick Klau of FeedBurner recommended in his presentation at the SEO Using Blogs & Feeds session at Search Engine Strategies New York was to have your auto discovery tags point to...
View ArticleAsk.com Doesn’t ‘Get’ 301 Permanent Redirects…
Over two years ago now we did a major overhaul of our client's medical illustration site, netterimages.com. It went from a small brochure-ware site to a full-fledged e-commerce site. At the time we did...
View ArticleThree Reasons You SHOULD Use Dates In URLs
There was a post by Aaron Wall the other day on Search Engine Land entitled "Four Reasons To Avoid Using Dates in URLs". I'm a big advocate of dates in URLs in certain circumstances, so let's look at...
View ArticleHow To Migrate From Blogger to WordPress
The other day I covered the difficulties of migrating off blogspot.com, and the sum total was that it's now a pretty horrid process. The Blogger team has tried to put measures in to combat spammers who...
View ArticleUse Apache’s .htaccess To Accomplish Cool And Useful Tasks
One of the reasons why Apache is such a popular web server is because it's almost infinitely expandable and flexible. There are some incredibly powerful things you can do with Apache's config settings,...
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