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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...
Professional Twitter-Stalking
Today Kelvin Newman asked me for a Twitter-tip. Well, I won’t reveal what he’s gathered so far until he publishes his collection, but I thought I could post a TwitterTip myself. I’m on a dead slow Internet connection, so here’...
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&...
