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Today (May 2, 2012), I’m giving a webinar at 10am pacific with O’Reilly Media about the critical pieces of technical web site architecture that can keep site content from being indexed in search engines and seen by searchers. Site infrastructure is a core foundational component of search engine optimization (SEO). If search engines … Continue reading »

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This past week at SXSW, Google’s Matt Cutts talked about an upcoming “over-optimization” algorithm launch aimed at those who abuse search engine optimization. Rob Snell transcribed the session, which included these comments from Matt (I’ve updated this article to include fuller comments from the transcript): “The idea is basically to try and level … Continue reading »

Google’s latest blog post provides details and a video from Maile Ohye about how they handle the pagination attributes within a page’s source code. You can use these attributes to indicate pages in a series (such as a multi-page article or set of product listings), which enables Google to cluster the pages into a single … Continue reading »

Google has just revamped the crawl errors data available in webmaster tools. Crawl errors are issues Googlebot encountered while crawling your site, so useful stuff! I originally started this article by writing that in most cases, these changes are for the better and in only a few (really maddening) cases, useful functionality has … Continue reading »

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