Archive for May, 2008

Banning A Referrer

Friday, May 9th, 2008

If you're tired of getting spammed from a single referrer, rejoice. There's no need to take it, and implementing a ban for a referrer is as easy as pie. That is, if you're using mod_rewrite. If you are using mod_rewrite, then you simply add a rule to ...

Google Crawl Rate Drops

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Google is crawling the internet at a much slower rate than they used to, based on observations of data in Google Webmaster Central. It's not on all sites, but I can notice a considerable decline on many. Google hasn't made any commentary on the subject so far, but ...

PR Sculpting

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The idea of PR Sculpting has been in the "news" in SEO circles for awhile now. It's not a complicated subject, so it's understandable why people would go for it. The basic concept is you "sculpt" your PR through the careful use of "nofollow" tags. Of course, ...

Finding Technical Answers In Google

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Google does a great job, for the most part, with many classes of search queries. But one class they don't seem to fair well with is technical queries. I'm not sure it's really their fault either, because they truly can't understand the context of most documents they index. ...