My colleague Roy made me laugh today, and not a little, over this very geeky SEO joke:
Me: "Hey, we're ranking for duplicate content."
Roy: "How often?"
Now, if you can laugh about that, you know you're doing good as an SEO and probably bad in your personal life :). Any more SEO jokes you guys want to [...]
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SEO Jokes
Categories: SEO
Yahoo SiteExplorer API giving "wrong" results?
I was working on adding a new metric to the domain info tool, being the "deeplink ratio" (the number of links to other pages than the homepage, divided by the links to the homepage * 100), when I found out Yahoo's SiteExplorer API is giving me wrong results. It returns way less links than the [...]
Categories: SEO
Technorati redesign
Dave Sifry posted on the Technorati blog that Technorati has updated it's design. And I actually really like it! There's one thing though... My colleague Roy pointed at the source code, especially the tag cloud... Come on guys, you can do better than that!
Categories: SEO
Update to statistics detector for yet another stats package
As requested by Ruben, I've added Clicky to the statistics detector Greasemonkey script, upgrading it to version 1.3.8, and installed Clicky on this site too. The interface looks quite good, I'll test it over the next few days and let you guys know what I think.
Categories: Analytics
Blocking your site's search results?
Recently, Matt Cutts posted about search results in search results, as apparently Vanessa had updated the guidelines about this a bit after some uncertainty as to how you should handle your sites search results. The guideline now states:
Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value [...]
Categories: SEO
Cloak your sitemap!
There's a discussion on Webmasterworld as to whether XML sitemaps are a welcoming door for scrapers. Especially with the new autodiscovery feature for sitemaps around, it becomes very easy for a scraper to find any and all URL's in your site. So in my opinion, they are a bit too warm of a welcome. Tedster [...]
Categories: SEO
Tele2 sucks, but I'm back online
I've been using Tele2 for a while now while on my old address, it was slow at times, but it usually worked, so I was pretty satisfied. I'm not anymore though... We've been moving to our new house over the last weekend, and I had arranged for our phone and internet connection to be moved [...]
Categories: Offtopic
Moved the blog to the homepage
Since moving the seo blog to the main URL worked so well on css3.info, (it came out of the last PR update as a PR7 and has had more search referrers since), I decided to do the same here. Let me know if you find any errors, but I think it all went smoothly. All [...]
Categories: Offtopic
nofollow is NOT meant for editorially reviewed links
Imagine you're like me, and you like WordPress so much that you write plugins for it. People start writing about these plugins and they, of course, link to you. You see these pages writing about you show up in your referrer stats and of course you go and have a look at what they're writing [...]
Categories: SEO
Fixed category subpage titles and a fix in permalink redirect plugin
Subpages of category archives were improperly 301'd back to the main category page... Fixed that now, so update NOW: the permalink redirect plugin.
I fixed the title for category subpages too btw, check how this works:
} else if ( is_category() ) {
echo single_cat_title("");
echo " archives - ";
bloginfo('name');
if (get_query_var('paged') [...]
Categories: WordPress