William Slawski recently analyzed a Google patent application and discusses the implications for mobile site indexing.
Definitely worth checking out.
Category: Search Engine Optimization
SEO, Search Engine Optimization
2007 Prediction
I’m not going to make a long list. As such, I will be 100% right or completely wrong.
My prediction? Matt Cutts will leave Google sometime during 2007.
I can’t quite fully put my finger on why if asked, but it’s a feeling I’ve had lately.
Note to self: Get Matt’s personal contact info in the near future.
My friend Neil Patel
Neil Patel responded to Andy Beal’s call out to learn about “5 things you don’t know”. I’ll add something you don’t know about Neil Patel. Since I think we are up to #6, I get to do #7!!!
7) Neil drank while underage at a Google party in Chicago in 2005 that he wasn’t even invited to! (you got to love the resourcefulness)
OK, I know a few other things, but I’m not telling!
Increasing Your Blog Traffic
Stephan Spencer wrote this nice post a hile back on how to increase your blog traffic.
SES Chicago – Hot Issue Recap
Duplicate content is a big deal overlapping almost every topic.
Don’t agree? Look at this.
AI Gateway Accepted to Major University Technology Incubator
AI Gateway, a development stage search portal and ad network with a truly unique value added technology, was accepted into a major university incubator today. Founder Joe Holcomb put significant work into this effort and gave me a shout to let me know that this goal has been reached.
AI Gateway is currently seeking angel funding and or an aggressive venture capital participant willing to fund a predevelopment concept based on a unique business plan that starts to generate revenue quickly upon completion of a beta product.
Chicago SES – Day 2 – Duplicate Site Issues
I came to this session to hear abouts splog and what Google and others were going to do about splog prevention (apparently nothing yet). I was also inerested how feeds affected organic listings as I’ve personally experienced some problems. What I got instead was a bunch of people developing business sites that needed redesign and/or clean up, certainly necessary, but not as interesting to me.
Jon Glick, Become.com
What is duplicate content a problem?
Google, Yahoo, Open Directory Project…
Confusing the Bot: Dynamic URLs
Confusing the Bot: 2 URLs
Don’t confuse the spider – chose one canonical domain and link all internal pages
301 redirects, your hero…
Yahoo! has transparency on whether your site is banned, check it out.
Shari Thurow, Grandtastic Designs
What is duplicate content?
The definition is unclear.
Search Engines do not want duplicate or near-duplicate content in their indices.
Duplicate content filters:
– content properties
– linkage properties
– content evolution
– host name resolution
– shingle comparison
siteexplorer.yahoo.com
example: 3 web pages, 3 unique URLs – robots.txt excludes the duplicate content or meta tag can do the same thing
Duplicate content is often copyright infringement.
copyscape.com