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Googlebot Keep Out and Sitemaps Errors

October 22, 2006

When I first saw this I totally freaked out but after checking into it it’s really not as bad as it looks ….

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Crawling Difficulties and Error Pages

October 21, 2006

I like to put my error pages in a subdirectory usually named “error”. So any 401, 403, 404 or other errors will end up in http://www.example.com/error/404/ . I also use this for other thing like database failures or things so I end up with http://www.example.com/error/database-error/ with a hopefully human friendly explanation of what happened. [...]

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Is My Website Banned in Google?

October 19, 2006

One of the more difficult problems to diagnose is has your website been banned or is there something else wrong? I have the unfortunate task of trying to diagnose the problem for one of my sites and I thought it might be educational to let you in on the process.

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Good Karma Podcasts SEO Mistakes

October 11, 2006

I’ve got my head down working on the mashup to end all mashups. However if you’re looking for some Graywolf goodness, you can listen to a podacast I did with Greg Niland on 9/28/2006, where we talk about SEO mistakes we’ve made and how to learn from them and not repeat them.
Good Karma Podcast

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The Sandbox is not the Trustbox

October 5, 2006

So I was trying to explain something to someone earlier today and had one of those zen moments of clarity …

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Looking at Search Video News

October 3, 2006

I’ll admit I’m like the people Guy Kawasaki recently talked with I don’t spend a lot of time watching TV. I watch the occasional Mythbusters, American Chopper and animal planet nature documentary, and a few TV show I run some blogs for, so we’re talking about less than 5 hours a week. Since I spend [...]

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How to Win an Election With Keywords

September 29, 2006

Every few days I go through my “junk suspects” email folder to see if anyone got flagged as “spam” that shouldn’t have. I noticed a large increase in spammers using political topics as subject lines things like :
“URGENT: Bush admits Al-Quada and Iran Link False”
“IMMEDIATE ATTENTION: New White House Plan Endangers All Americans”
“ACTION REQUIRED: Show [...]

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Deep Crawling a Mini Site Part II

September 28, 2006

After correcting some “errors” in my mini-site architecture (see Deep Crawling a New Mini Site) I am happy to report posting links to all of the pages in the footer, got 90% of the site indexed in about a week.
So let’s clear up some of the confusion I created. For sites that are brand spankin’ [...]

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Good Karma Podcast

September 25, 2006

I’ll be on Greg Niland’s Webmaster Radio Podcast Good Karma Thursday September 28th at 1PM EST. Greg convinced me I was talking about my job being website coordinator for my kids elementary school, but tried to slip me a mikey so I’ll spill some secrets. Little does he know that my Google Lava Lamp contained [...]

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Deep Crawling a New Mini Site

September 22, 2006

Recently I launched two new mini sites and discovered something along the way.

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Google Technorati Search Weirdness

September 15, 2006

Since I know some of my readers like to see “wierdness” here’s one for you [http://technorati.com/blogs/] when you click the “repeat the search with the omitted results included” link at the bottom it redirects to technorati, WTF?

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Live.com – New Interface, Same Blogspot Spam

September 12, 2006

Is this the best MSN can come up with on Live.com

Buy Viagra
Buy Phentermine
Buy hydrocodone

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Google www.Domian.com Query Oddities

September 12, 2006

As was discovered over at Digital Point google recently changed the way it handles www.domain.com. For most of the domains of the domains I’ve checked in the past few days everything is normal, however I came across two today that are pretty out of whack.

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Graywolf Interview

September 11, 2006

If you can’t get enough of the graywolf goodness be sure to check out an interview I gave at sootle.com

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Steve Rubel, Wikipedia, and AOL Data, Part II

September 11, 2006

One of the great things about the AOL data leak is we can actually go and test things we think are true or might be true by looking at actual searches.

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Steve Rubel Notices Lots of Wikipedia

September 11, 2006

I’ve been complaining about big sites like eBay, Craigslist and Wikipedia getting more than their fair share of wikipedia luvin’ for quite some time. Today I read a post from Steve Rubel where he notices Wikipedia is dominating brand searches.

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Elementary School Website Coordinator

September 10, 2006

As the newly appointed website coordinator for my children’s elementary school it will be my mission stamp out blinking text, spinning logos, and scrolling text from any and all pages. I also pledge to set an example of clean design, intuitive navigation and improved usability.

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If Hillary Clinton Runs for President

September 9, 2006

With the blogosphere as my witness if Hillary Clinton Runs for President I will break my no politics rule and start a political blog. I mean the traffic from a Hillary backed run versus whoever the Bush administration props up is going to be huge.
I imagine Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are in a [...]

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