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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)....
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...
Debugging robots.txt with Google Webmaster Tools
Although Google’s Webmaster Console is a really neat toolkit, it can mislead the not-that-savvy crowd every once in a while. When you go to “Diagnostics::Crawl Errors::Restricted by robots.txt” and you find URIs that aren’t di...
Getting new stuff crawled in real-time
Thanks to PubSubHubbub we’ve got another method to invite Googlebot. Just add a link to FriendFeed, for example by twittering or bookmarking it. Once the URI hits your FriendFeed account, FriendFeed shares it with Googlebot, and both of them re...
Less is more. Google Chrome is my preferred browser. Here’s why:
Recently I’ve bitched a lot, especially tearing utterly useles microformats that the InterWeb really doesn’t need (rel-nofollow, common tag …). Naturally, those pamplets get noticed as Google search engine bashing. Wait. Of course n...
How to handle a machine-readable pandemic that search engines cannot control
When you’re familiar with my various rants on the ever morphing rel-nofollow microformat infectious link disease, don’t read further. This post is not polemic, ironic, insulting, or otherwise meant to entertain you. I’m just raving ...
Vaporize yourself before Google burns your linking power
I couldn’t care less about PageRank™ sculpting, because a well thought out link architecture does the job with all search engines, not just Google. That’s where Google is right on the money. They own PageRank™, hence they can ...
