Cli.gs, (Cligs) a URL shortening/forwarding service has been hacked where several users have been reporting their older created forwarders were all going to 1 single location. Below is a screenshot within the Cligs user interface displaying some older saved forwarded URLs in my own Cligs account.
All of which were now going to: (more…)
Upon further review of the new tag rel=canonical, that is used to let search engines know what URL you want indexed for any given page of your site, I can’t find any reason why you wouldn’t want to make it a standard part of every Web page on your site. This tag proactively handles a number of potential duplicate content issues.
*special note about “duplicate content penalties”: Some people feel that it is very important to be clear that a duplicate content “penalty” is not really a penalty. Google is not punishing your site for having a Web page that has the same content as another Web page. But what it is happening is, (more…)
I used to think that this was obvious because I have been doing SEO for too long. *lol* But I found that there are many clients that still do not know the single most important SEO strategy for content:
What I mean is (more…)
What a great Friday. First, it’s a three day weekend, which always makes it a great Friday. Second, I am about to watch the Chargers shock the world on Sunday and defeat the Evil Empire that is the New England Patriots. I predict 27 – 24 Chargers. and Third, I am going to the NAMM show up in Anaheim where I will get a chance to play the best guitars in the world from Gibson, Fender, Martin, Taylor and too many other names to mention. There is nothing else like the NAMM show. Special thanks to my friends at Guitar Trader / Music Power for making it happen for me and the guys in Dive Bomber.
I just got back from San Francisco and I had the opportunity to meet with a couple of our enterprise level clients. It’s always fun to get out of the office and travel a little. It’s also fun to get an opportunity to explain SEO to a receptive audience. One of the challenges that my clients face is managing their marketing URLs. They have a number of vanity domains that are product specific or are part of a marketing campaign. Up until now, the company has used 302 redirects to direct those URLs to the appropriate sub pages on their site. The benefit there is that the Marketing URL, or MUrl for short, is what gets displayed in the organic search results. However, if one really looks at the situation and the difference in the way search engines treat a 302 redirect and a 301 redirect, it becomes apparent that the 302 is not the answer.
The biggest issue with 302 redirects is that they do not (more…)
Signed up for www.Feedburner.com for the SEO blog today, so it should be available there now. For those that don’t know about Feedburner, it allows you to get a much better idea of how many people are using your feed and where they are finding it. I highly recommend it.
The hard part is getting it so that your brand URL redirects through Feedburner so that you can promote your brand URL in the event that someday you ever leave Feedburner. Here are the instructions for that under the Feedburner Mybrand Section. It’s a little hard to find because it’s (more…)
4:45am… baby crying
5:00am… wife’s alarm goes off
6:30am… scrapping ice off my window in San Diego, WTF
7:30am… still hanging out in an hour long traffic jam
It started out pretty rough today I have to admit…lol. So I thought I would lose myself in the SEO world today to take my mind off how tired I am. Here are some of the things I found along the way:
More on sub domains versus folders and how it effects SEO.
The ongoing discussion about the evils of paid links in SEO.
A great article about the problems that CMS systems have with SEO. I’ll blog more on this subject later myself. I have a number of observations to add..lol. That’s why we invented our own CMS system that is SEO friendly 
Well our San Diego Chargers found a way to win in Tennessee this Sunday coming back in classic style that featured a 2:00 minute drill for the tie and an LT run in OT for the win. It doesn’t get any better than that, but it sure does frazzle your nerves…lol. I hope we get another shot at the Patriots in the playoffs 
Speaking of frazzled nerves, I was a little nervous Saturday night before singing for the first time ever at a bar with my band. Playing guitar and singing at the same time is hard enough by yourself, much less at a bar in front of people. But it went pretty well and no one ran out of the room, so from that standpoint, it was a success. For those that don’t know, I play in a band called Dive Bomber ( http://www.heavymusic.com/ ).
I am in the process of writing a three part article series for http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ about how PPC and SEO can work together to produce greater results. I am almost done with the article and I have to say it has really been fun. I am getting an opportunity to share some of the SEO observations that we have had at BusinessOnLine that can really make a difference for some Web sites and I think that’s exciting.
In SEO news, Matt Cutts today tried to add some logic behind the old subdomains versus subfolders debate. Google treats subdomains like (more…)
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