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Working with Multi-Regional Websites
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Google Webmaster Blog sent out an email on this subject. We don’t have a lot of experience with client’s who need to serve multiple languages with their sites. However, for those who do there is a lot to know and a lot of additional work for the site. I have reproduced an edited version of the [...]
Reducing Spam from Your Contact or Comment Forms
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Spam! Everyone hates it (except perhaps the spammers). Email spam is the type of spam most people are familiar with. It is a plague on the Internet and in my opinion email spam has all but ruined a great communications technology. However, this article is about spam that comes from your website forms and some [...]
Can Images be Optimized for Search Engines?
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In the never ending quest for greater website optimization one may wonder whether or not images may be optimized. Obviously, the physical image itself, e.g. mycat.jpg, consists of a blob of digital pixels that cannot be analyzed by the search engines’ indexing software. So, how can images be optimized?
Backlinks: Does Quality Count?
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The Google Webmaster Blog recently released a post talking about “low-quality backlinks.” I thought I would share some of the information from that article and talk about backlinks in general and the role they play in search engine optimization. First of all, what is a backlink?
Setting Up 301 Redirects in IIS 6.0
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OK, this is kinda geekly but important. Did you know that search engines will catalog mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com essentially as two different websites! Strange but true. And this is not a good thing for your SEO performance.
WARNING: The rest of this article is pretty geeky. Read on at your own risk!
Google Sitemap Generator – Part Three
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Auto-Submission of Sitemaps to Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com Using the Google Sitemap Generator
But wait, there’s more! I wanted to update this series with a few more details about the Sitemap auto-submission feature built into the Google Sitemap Generator. Please refer to my two earlier articles for details, Part One and Part Two.
About Google Sitemap Generator – Part Two
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As promised, this is a follow-up to my initial article on the new Google Sitemap Generator tool (click here to read that article). If you are not familiar with the Google Sitemap Generator you should read my first article before reading this one as I do not repeat any informaion from that article here.
First Look: Google’s new Sitemap Generator Software – Part One
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Google has recently released a new, free SEO software tool called “Google Sitemap Generator.” It’s a Beta release that Google describes as “…  software that improves the ability of search engines to find the content of your websites. ” I have installed it on one of our Web servers and have been working with it for a [...]
