I’m doing some work on a site which has like 4,500 pages indexed with a PHPSESSID in the URL, causing some major duplicate content problems. I got the server admin to disable the PHPSESSID’s by adding the following to the vhost config: I also wanted Google to get a clean URL when it decided to…
SEOdays was great, even though Google fucked up
Ok, so a lot of people asked me what I thought of SEOdays, since they don’t speak Dutch and thus can’t read my posts on the Onetomarket blog. The headline says it all, I’ve met some very cool people, of course Jennifer Slegg and David Naylor, but also Jason Duke and Johan Terpstra, a Dutch…
Convert underscores to dashes with Apache mod_rewrite
Update: (Aug 4 2007) the stuff below is no longer necessary, all major search engines now treat underscores and dashes exactly the same, as word separators! A year or so back, I was using underscores in my URL’s on this site for spaces, and I decided to switch them to dashes, since several people, including…
Ask.com: I’m flattered, but…
Do you really think that I should rank #1 for my name? And no, not “Joost de Valk”, but “Joost“? Hint: go off, and spider joost.com…
Going to SEOdays!
Some people watching the blogosphere closely had already guessed it: I’m going to SEOdays tonight. We only finalized it last thursday, so it has been quite hectic, but tonight I’m getting on an airplane over to London, to spend a few days and nights with the awesome DaveN, JenSense and others! I’m really looking forward to…
Trailing double forward slashes in URL’s in the SERPs…
This query gives a result I hadn’t seen before (image), the same page was indexed with both a single trailing forward slash, which is of course normal, and with a double trailing forward slash… This is of course a duplicate content issue, especially when people link to the double slash one by accident. The fix…
Showing linkdata, but not PageRank
Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable covered my greasemonkey script for external links, and in the comments, Michael Martinez said: Why in the world would anyone want to look at Toolbar PageRank with live link data from Google Webmaster’s link tool? That’s like saying, “Give me old, poisoned mayonnaise with my fresh turkey sandwich”. And…
Google Webmaster Tools on steroids
I love Google Webmaster Tools, especially when it started showing external links. This link overview left me and quite a lot of other SEO’s longing for more though, as we all wanted more info on that page. I have now created a Greasemonkey script to show the PageRank of the page linking to you, and…
IP-delivery or cloaking: useful, but do you WANT to use it?
My friend Jaimie Sirovich sent me a chapter of his upcoming techy SEO book. More specifically, he sent me the chapter on cloaking, geo-targeting and IP-delivery. It’s a fun read, and his example scripts are very, very complete and work nicely.
MSN launches Dutch Digg clone, but forgets spam prevention
Recently (I honestly don’t know when), MSN launched a Digg clone in the Netherlands, called MSN reporter. You can submit your story, and others can vote for it or against it. The top stories go to the MSN.nl homepage. Now the boys at MSN haven’t really thought this through, as they store what stories you’ve…
