Recent Posts Tagged With 'duplicate content'

• Why storing URLs with truncated trailing slashes is an utterly idiocy

  Posted on Wednesday February 6th, 2008 at 02:03 in web development, crap, usability, duplicate content, anchor text, .htaccess

  With some Web services URL canonicalization has a downside. What works great for major search engines like Google can fire back when a Web service like Yahoo thinks circumcising URLs is cool. Proper URL canonicalization might, for example, screw your...

• Getting URLs outta Google - the good, the popular, and the definitive way

  Posted on Monday January 14th, 2008 at 15:01 in web development, duplicate content, webmaster central, robots.txt, crawler directives, robots meta tags, x-robots-tag, url removal

  There’s more and more robots.txt talk in the SEOsphere lately. That’s a good thing in my opinion, because the good old robots.txt’s power is underestimated. Unfortunately it’s quite often misused or even abused too, usually be...

• Upgrading from IIS/ASP to Apache/PHP

  Posted on Tuesday December 11th, 2007 at 14:47 in web development, iis, duplicate content, .htaccess, redirects, 404grabber, copy+paste-penalties

  Once you’re sick of IIS/ASP maladies you want to upgrade your Web site to utilize standardized technologies and reliable OpenSource software. On an Apache Web server with PHP your .asp scripts won’t work, and you can’t run MS-Access...