Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Free Site Reviews
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Excerpt: This is just a friendly reminder that once a month I'll be dissecting the architecture of 1-2 sites that readers submit and doing a formal report. It's free as long as you don't mind me posting the report. I'll be picking the site at the end of this week. Click here ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: Matt Cutts reaffirmed his distaste for cloaking in his most recent videos over here. However, I still fail to see a problem with cloaking used ethically, and every time I think of an ethical use I post it on this blog.Chris Boggs posts here that he implemented load-balancing for a web site via ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Security
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Excerpt: Most deployed versions of Apache are potentially exploitable, as mod_rewrite has been found to be vulnerable to a stack smashing attack. It is somewhat muted by the fact that only certain rules cause the problem. The vulnerability is caused by an off-by-one error -- the mo ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Free Site Reviews
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Excerpt: Once a month, starting this coming month, I will be doing a free SEO site clinic. Here's how it will work: Leave a comment with your site's URL and specific concerns you may have.After a week, I will pick 1-2 sites in the list and do a public post on what my recommendations are fo ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Copywriting
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Excerpt: A major copywriting concern becomes manifest when one realizes that many popular queries happen to be English, but they are just plain awkward constructions.For example, when a user is looking for a "Vioxx attorney," one must consider whether this phrase is actually English. The answer is ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Syndication
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Excerpt: Syndication isn't only for blogs; it can be used for any type of site with any sort of infomation. Blogs typically already include robust feed support (including both RSS & Atom), but what about if you want to create a feed for a site that isn't a blog? Easy -- use the below class to d ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Other
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Excerpt: Apparently, he entered a deep bout of depression on June 27, and never acted quite the same since then. Matt Cutts stated something extremely vague in response here. "I believe any changes on the 27th were refreshing data used by an existing algorithm." Cryptic indeed. And many screame ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: I have never seen such horrible irrelevent link exchange requests from fellow webmasters since Axandra's Arelis product caught on in a big way a few years back. The site is called LinkMetro, and it stinks.Google finally squashed the 2-way link exchange as the SEO-currency; but now LinkMetr ...