Archive for May, 2005
Sunday, May 29th, 2005
I've noticed a number of strange things lately using the site: command in Google. It seems that more and more of the pages showing up are pages that are very old, or have been specifically dis-allowed via robots.txt.
I removed a number of pages from a website in December, ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Currently, I see just way too many made for AdSense sites being made. At the current rate, the usable Internet will be gone within one year, replaced by a strain of inferior websites that are all designed with the same purpose in mind: fooling users to click on AdSense ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Another update this weekend. It seems many content webmasters are in upheaval yet again. This follows the patter on the last few Google updates, where sites that never usually move have found themselves sinking into oblivion.
It's very tough to ascertain what happens in updates, just from hearing the ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
This seems to be a big part of what I'm hearing that optimizers are doing these days. Actually, they're using RSS feeds in all sorts of...err, interesting ideas.
The tendency to abuse RSS feeds as "changing content" seems problematic, though. Google's algo has gotten better at finding duplicate content, ...
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Saturday, May 7th, 2005
Interestingly enough, Yahoo drops the trailing slash when traversing directories. This can cause problems because of mod_rewrite. I checked out a number of solutions and so far none of them actually work that great.
In any event, the solution requires appending the trailing slash yourself to ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2005
There have been a lot of arguments laid out in the last few days concerning the release of Google's newest product, an Web Accelerator, aimed at broadband users who want to speed up their connection. They can use a proxying system that Google has set up, which in part ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2005
Surprising enough, it appears that Yahoo has become the new speed champion when it comes to reflecting changes you make on your website. For years, Google had a big advantage when it came to freshness of content, but no more. Google built it's foundation on comprehensiveness of it's ...
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