Search Engine Optimization

Jun 03

Google Crawling HTML Forms IS Harmful to Your Rankings

Google, Search Engine Optimization 5 Comments »

A couple of months ago Google officially announced it would be "exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages". I imagine more than a few SEO's were baffled by this decision as was I but were probably not too concerned about the decision as Google promised ...

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Feb 04

Duplicate Content Can Penalize

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For some time now I've been telling clients and friends that publishing duplicate content will not cause you to receive a penalty but that Google will only choose one version of a unique piece of content that it believes to be the authority and ...

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Jul 17

Compete.com’s new tool is so good I kinda feel dirty :)

SEO Tools, Search Engine Optimization 1 Comment »

I received a beta account to test Compete.com's competitive analysis tool dubbed "Search Analytics". They should rename it to "Login to Your Competitor's Web Stats" because the "Site Referrals" tool is exactly that. For instance I have a site that competes with YachtWorld.com so I plugged it into ...

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Feb 14

At London SES, Will Party with London SEO

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Last year I was unable to make it to the London SEO party but this year I'm there! If you are in London for SES don't forget to round the corner of the ExCel conference center at 5PM and join us all for some ...

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Feb 04

Better Search Engine Friendly URL’s with Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails, Search Engine Optimization 8 Comments »

In my last post about SEO and RoR I gave really BAD advice on how to accomplish clean URL's that are search engine friendly. Our first RoR project consists of pages that are nearly 100% unspiderable by the search engine bots because its an app that requires login to do anything so I hadn't really sat down and worked out the proper way to do URLs.

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