Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Viral / Link Bait
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Excerpt: Link Bait is the hottest new fad in link building, and I keep my eyes open for obvious examples. If it weren't on CNN, I wouldn't even believe it. This is one of the funniest articles I have read in awhile:"Study: More Americans too fat for X-rays, scans" http://ww ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: I said awhile back in my post, Google Violates Computer Science that people have too much faith in Google. I said that even light obfuscation of Javascript redirect code, such as rot13ing the offending code would likely trick even the formidable Google. I may have changed my mind. ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: Should the need exist to change hosting companies, the process must be completed in the proper order. Not doing so may result in a time window where your site is unreachable; and this is clearly not desirable -- from both a general and SEO perspective. The focus of this elaborate process ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: This class can be used to detect where a site visitor is located and tailor their page content accordingly. For example, you may want to say "We surrender!" for French users, instead of the usual "Hello." No offense to Frenchies of course; but I had to poke some fun t ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: I decided that I would test what I think is an inconsistency in the interpretation of the robots.txt specification by various implementors cited here.I created a robots.txt file for this site that is contrived to test how various spiders interpret the specification. Here it is:User-agent: *Dis ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: Some people may know about this already, but it's worth discussing since it has been pertinent to me a few times:In theory, according to my interpretation of the robots.txt specification, if a Disallow: under User-agent: "*" exists, as well a Disallow: under a specific robot's User ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, PHP, Cloaking
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Excerpt: Someone commented on my last post that there is a way to achieve some of what I stated as a goal in the previous post without cloaking. He said:"Only create the session IDs in the URL when either one already exists, or when the user does something to prompt it (and make sure robots don ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: This post is an answer to those who have criticized my unabashed advocation of cloaking as an ethical practice. I maintain that cloaking, in quite a few cases, is necessary, and far from unethical or black hat. Here is just one example of the many I will cite over the coming weeks:Cloaki ...
