http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/ Intrapromote Looks Under the Hood of Search Engine Optimization en Copyright 2010 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:22:08 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Erik Dafforn Is Google indexing its own Toolbar pages against its own wishes, or am I missing something? http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/11/google_indexes.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/11/google_indexes.html Crawling and Indexing Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:22:08 -0500 Erik Dafforn Just because you're not creating tracking versions of your content doesn't mean other people aren't. Here's how to handle it. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/11/social_media_ur.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/11/social_media_ur.html Crawling and Indexing Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:33:01 -0500 John Lustina Mark the time, SEO Friends; Google is listening to our Social World. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/dafforn_first_t.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/dafforn_first_t.html Organic SEO Wed, 27 May 2009 20:19:42 -0500 John Lustina As is normally the case with a non-temporary 302--THE problem with a non-temporary 302 you might conclude--I don't know whether to link to http://www.google.com/profiles/John.Lustina or http://www.google.com/profiles/116187582762783426547 when I am referring to it. Yet still it climbs. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_profile.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_profile.html Organic SEO Mon, 18 May 2009 22:07:46 -0500 John Lustina Why a 302 temporary redirect? Why not just keep Profile URLs numerical rather than vain if they are not going to implement a proper 301? Isn't that what they would have us counsel our clients in a similar scenario? http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_profiles.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_profiles.html Organic SEO Mon, 04 May 2009 21:10:22 -0500 John Lustina Although unveiled in the innocuous position last--always, mind you--of the first page for your name, it seems more likely ever-prescient Google has a larger share in mind than the 10th result on a page. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/04/bonfire_of_the.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/04/bonfire_of_the.html Social Media Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:23:47 -0500 Erik Dafforn Google appears to have an error in its robots.txt help pages. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/error_in_google.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/error_in_google.html Crawling and Indexing Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:30:03 -0500 Erik Dafforn Crawling and indexing are different processes but related. Here is a brief description of each along with a look at some related timelines. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/the_difference_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/the_difference_1.html Crawling and Indexing Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:04:56 -0500 Erik Dafforn Google has announced that it's much more able to crawl Flash files, extracting text and links. This is a quick summary and also lists some potential things to watch out for. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/google_to_index.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/google_to_index.html Crawling and Indexing Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:18:19 -0500 Erik Dafforn Here's a summary of a Google Webmaster Tools post that collects current information about the many ways that you can utilize Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) on your site, either by robots.txt, meta tags, or x-robots-tags for non-HTML files. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/a_guide_to_robo.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/a_guide_to_robo.html Crawling and Indexing Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:07:16 -0500 Doug Ausbury On this Friday before the long Memorial Day weekend, I thought I would share something very smart that a client recently said to me and group of his colleagues. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/urls_matter.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/urls_matter.html Crawling and Indexing Fri, 23 May 2008 14:01:12 -0500 Erik Dafforn Sometimes Google sitemaps have real errors, sometimes they just look like they do, and sometimes they do, but they're not that serious. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/04/real_and_imagin.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/04/real_and_imagin.html Crawling and Indexing Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:52:14 -0500 Erik Dafforn Google is no longer showing robots-excluded URLs in its Sitelinks -- at least for us. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/04/update_on_googl.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/04/update_on_googl.html Crawling and Indexing Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:12:48 -0500 Erik Dafforn By eliminating its paid online subscription model and allowing spiders to access content, the New York Times has more than made up for its loss of subscription revenue, according to Google. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/03/nyt_traffic_dou.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/03/nyt_traffic_dou.html Old Media Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:51:46 -0500 Erik Dafforn It's easy to harp on duplicate content as if it's a few code lines or checkboxes from being repaired. But sometimes it's very, very difficult to offer the user a good experience and still stay within SEO best practices. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/01/duplicate_conte.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/01/duplicate_conte.html Crawling and Indexing Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:35:54 -0500