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Sebastian´s Pamphlets
http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/
Thoughts, findings, notes and opinions on Web development, Web search and SEO - not always serious and sometimes polemic.
- Added on: Dec 6th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Sebastian
- Listed in: Web Development SEO
- Tags: web standards SEO web development SEM search engines webmaster support
Recent Posts
The most sexy browsers screw your analytics
Now that IE is quite unusable due to the lack of websites that support its non-standard rendering, and the current FireFox version suffers from various maladies, more and more users switch to browsers that are supposed to comply to Web standards, suc...
As if sloppy social media users ain’t bad enough … search engines support traffic theft
Prepare for a dose of techy tin foil hattery. [Skip rant] Again, I’m going to rant about a nightmare that Twitter & Co created with their crappy, thoughtless and shortsighted software designs: URI shorteners (yup, it’s URI, not URL)....
Derek Powazek outed himself big-mouthed and ignorant, and why that’s a pity
With childish attacks on his colleagues, Derek Powazek didn’t do professional Web development –as an industry– a favor. As a matter of fact, Derek Powazek insulted savvy Web developers, Web designers, even search engine staff, as we...
Full disclosure @ FTC
Trying to avoid an $11,000 fine in the Federal Trade Commission’s war on bloggers: When I write about praise search engines, that’s totally paid-for because I’ve received free search results upfront. Copyright © 2009 Sebastian`...
Search engines should make shortened URIs somewhat persistent
URI shorteners are crap. Each and every shortened URI expresses a design flaw. All –or at least most– public URI shorteners will shut down sooner or later, because shortened URIs are hard to monetize. Making use of 3rd party URI shortener...
The “just create compelling and useful content” lie
I’m so sick of the universal answer to all SEO questions. Each and every search engine rep keeps telling me that “creating a great and useful site with compelling content will gain me all the rankings I deserve”. What a pile of bull...
