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Handle your (UGC) feeds with care!
When you run a website that deals with user generated content (UGC), this pamphlet is for you. #bad_news Otherwise you might enjoy it. #malicious_joy Jump station Background Risk Potential Defense Tactics Discuss Not that the recent –and on...
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...
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 ...
Avoid catch-22 situations - don’t try to store more than the current screen values
Enough is enough. Folks following me at Twitter may have noticed that suffering from an unchangeable, seriously painful all-red-in-red Twitter color scheme over weeks and weeks results in a somewhat grumpy mood of yours truly. I’ve learned that...
Dump your self-banning CMS
When it comes to cluelessness [silliness, idiocy, stupidity … you name it], you can’t beat CMS developers. You really can’t. There’s literally no way to kill search engine traffic that the average content management system (CM...
Save bandwidth costs: Dynamic pages can support If-Modified-Since too
When search engine crawlers burn way too much of your bandwidth, this post is for you. Crawlers sent out by major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live Search) support conditional GETs, that means they don’t fetch your pages if those didn&...
Why storing URLs with truncated trailing slashes is an utterly idiocy
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...
Get a grip on the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP)
Thanks to the very nice folks over at SEOmoz I was able to prevent this site from becoming a kind of REP/robots.txt blog. Please consider reading this REP round up: Robots Exclusion Protocol 101 My REP 101 links to the various standards (robots...
Getting URLs outta Google - the good, the popular, and the definitive way
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...
My plea to Google - Please sanitize your REP revamps
Standardization of REP tags as robots.txt directives This draft is kinda request for comments for search engine staff and uber search geeks interested in the progress of Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) standardization (actually, every search engine m...
Upgrading from IIS/ASP to Apache/PHP
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...
Advantages of a smart robots.txt file
A loyal reader of my pamphlets asked me: I foresee many new capabilities with robots.txt in the future due to this [Google’s robots.txt experiments]. However, how the hell can a webmaster hide their robots.txt from the public while serving it u...
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...
Q&A: An undocumented robots.txt crawler directive from Google
Blogging should be fun every now and then. Today I don’t tell you anything new about Google’s secret experiments with the robots exclusion protocol. I ask you instead, because I’m sure you know your stuff. Unfortunately, the Q&...
Act out your sophisticated affiliate link paranoia
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,...
