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 PHP, Usability
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Excerpt: Microsoft applications have this nasty habit of exchanging both your single and double quotes with "smarter" versions. They curve inwards and look really snazzy in Microsoft Word. When you cut and paste them, they're unencoded, as Windows assumes that everyone is using wind ...
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 ...
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 ...
