I come across bad SEO advice all the time. Much of it may seem obvious to those of us who have been involved in search for any length of time, but for people who haven’t, it can be difficult to know what’s concrete advice, what’s speculation, and what’s just plain terrible. For that matter, it [...]
Note: This post was originally posted on Jane and Robot in May 2008 and is being temporarily stored here.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, when it comes to major search engines (which are still primarily text-based), a picture is worth a lot of blank space. Does this mean you shouldn’t use images on your [...]
Note: This post was originally posted on Jane and Robot in November 2008 (by Nathan Buggia) and is being temporarily stored here.
There may be instance when you want to track the source of a request, and a common way of doing so is by using tracking parameters in URLs. Unfortunately, implementing referrer tracking in this [...]
Note: This post was originally posted on Jane and Robot in June 2008 and is being temporarily stored here.
Controlling what content is blocked from being found in search engines is crucial for many websites. Fortunately, the major search engines and other well-behaved robots observe the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), which has evolved organically since the early [...]
Some awesome and exciting things are happening around here, and as part of that, janeandrobot.com has been down for maintenance. I thought that would be quick, but it’s looking like it might be another month. (A whole month!) I’ve had a lot of people asking how to access the articles since it’s been down, so [...]
