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August 28th
260The DMOZ mob strikes again...
This weekend I was reading about Shoemoney being extorted by a DMOZ editor. I thought: heck, I'm a DMOZ editor, I don't want to be associated with stuff like that, let's see if I can do anything to help. So I posted something like that in the commentthread to the above post, and I added [...]
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August 24th
8WikiPedia breaking the SERPs
I can't help but agree with Michael Gray on WikiPedia if I see stuff like this: http://www.google.nl/search?q=merchandising&pws=0&hl=nl. That's 5 results out of 10 for Wikipedia... Come on Google, fix it!
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August 21st
6Merging plugins: the meta-robots WordPress plugin
I've merged a couple of plugins into one plugin, creating the meta-robots plugin. This plugin is able to add all meta robots tags you'd possibly wish to add to pages.
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Posted in: WordPress
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August 21st
4Adding a description to your categories
Robbert mailed me today asking with which template tags I used to make the description show up on my category pages. Well, first of all, you can add a description to your categories under Manage -> Categories:
If you press the edit button there you can edit them like this:
The description is what we'll use on [...]
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Posted in: WordPress
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August 16th
9noindex,follow your WordPress search result pages
The webmaster guidelines advise you to prevent your search result pages from being indexed, WordPress doesn't do that by default (yet), so I've written a small noindex-search plugin which takes care of that by adding a meta robots noindex,follow tag to search result pages.
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August 16th
2Cave your trolls!
Henk van Ess recently asked me to help him in developing an idea he had called "Cave Your Trolls". The idea is that troll commenters are "caved", meaning they can only see their comment themselves, and no-one else can. They think their comment is left there and rejoice, but no one else has to bother [...]
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August 9th
10Spock: Another Search Engine Reputation Management Resource
I've been looking at Spock for a while now, and now that it's in public beta, I can finally say what I think this is good for: (Personal) Search Engine Reputation Management! Just check out the search results for "Joost de Valk" and for "Onetomarket". My guess is the search pages will rank better for [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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August 8th
1JasonD on DaveN vs Jason Calacanis
JasonD pinged me this afternoon if I wanted to test something on a new site of his, WidgetLogic, which isn't completely ready yet. The reason I wanted to let you people know was this vid. Go see for yourself, it's about DaveN and his discussion with the Paris Hilton of our industry, Jason Calacanis, here. [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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August 8th
11Busting some SEO myths
Short note: A fellow Dutch SEO, Wiep, has done a nice post busting some SEO myths, worth checking out!
The results:Google indexes a website if you add a Google Analytics code. Busted!
Google indexes a website if you use Google AdWords. Busted!
Google indexes a website if you add Google AdSense. Busted!
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August 7th
2The trouble with 301 redirects and backlinks
On the SERoundtable the question is raised whether you can check if a site 301 redirects to your website, referring to a thread on the SEW forums and an article by Aaron Wall. That seems quite simple to me, as most of the times you'll see clicks coming in from sites on which your own [...]
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