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Nofollow still means don’t follow, and how to instruct Google to crawl nofollow’ed links nevertheless
What was meant as a quick test of rel-nofollow once again (inspired by Michelle’s post stating that nofollow’ed comment author links result in rankings), turned out to some interesting observations: Google uses sneaky JavaScript links (t...
The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks
A while ago I’ve staged a public SEO contest, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Password protected site areas should be safe from indexing, because legit search engine crawlers do not submit...
Comment rating and filtering with SezWho
I’ve added SezWho to the comment area. SezWho enables rating and filtering of comments, and shows you even comments an author has left on other blogs. Neat. Currently there are no ratings, so the existing comments are all rated 2.5 (quite goo...
Do search engines index references to password protected smut?
Recently Matt Cutts said that Google doesn’t index password protected content. I wasn’t sure whether or not that goes for all search engines. I thought that they might index at least references to protected URLs, like they all do with oth...
Validate your robots.txt - Googlebot becomes smarter
Last week I reported that Google experiments with new crawler directives for use in robots.txt. Today Google has confirmed that Googlebot understands experimental REP syntax like Noindex:. That means that forgotten –and, until recently, ignored...
