Recent Posts Tagged With 'redirects'

• Search engines should make shortened URIs somewhat persistent

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 12:29 in google, SEO, yahoo, msn, crap, twitter, social web, redirects, risky linkage, uri shortening

  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

  Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 12:32 in google, SEO, webmaster central, robots.txt, redirects, crawler directives

  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...

• 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...

• Act out your sophisticated affiliate link paranoia

  Posted on Tuesday November 13th, 2007 at 01:09 in web development, e-commerce, nofollow, cloaking, robots.txt, redirects, paid links, search quality, crawler directives, x-robots-tag, risky linkage

  My recent posts on managing affiliate links and nofollow cloaking paid links led to so many reactions from my readers that I thought explaining possible protection levels could make sense. Google’s request to condomize affiliate links is a bit,...