Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: So there was just a PageRank update, and everyone is excited as usual; but perhaps a bit less this time. I know PageRank is "dead" as a metric of site importance and ranking. I don't deny this at all. I'm glad most people shook the PageRank obsession. Barry ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: Incidentally, some scraper, here, was stealing my content and posting it, verbatim, on his site. I never authorized this. He was even linking back and thusly sending pings to me -- I got alerted to each "citation." Not so bright. He also struck the content at ha.cke ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Usability
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Excerpt: I find it very annoying when I click on a link that references an internal part of a document, and I fail to see what I was trying to get by clicking it. It happens the most when a webmaster puts an anchor name near the bottom of the document. A browser "tries" to scroll such t ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO
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Excerpt: People have too much faith in Google – even when doing so implies a violation of the principles of computer science. Many Google-oglers have contended that Google can find applications of JavaScript redirect cloaking with ease. I'm not a PhD in Computer Science, but I doubt the ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO
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Excerpt: Since BigDaddy, many have been screaming about the decreasing quality of Google's index. Now let's get a few things straight. Some SEOs (ahem, spammers) may be the last demographic that you want to ask about index quality; but even the whitest of white hats are noticing. On ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, PHP
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Excerpt: I wrote this script so that I can run it over arbitrary HTML. Basically, what it does is it adds rel="nofollow" to links that are not in an array of whitelisted domains. It sounds simple, but it gracefully handles many conditions that most people do not bother with. 1) As mentioned ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: The following is a quote straight from Google's Investor Relations web page. "If an opportunity arises to take advantage of competitors' confidential information, remember: don't be evil. We compete, but we don't cheat." Unfortunately, I'm not so sure this speaks for ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: I have never gotten an authorative answer to this question, but I'm posting my thoughts. I've just acquired another ".edu" link to one of my sites. However, it contains a "~" in the URL. If you're not aware, by convention, a "~" prefix on a directory references a Unix home directory web site. The ...
