When you’ve had someone build a website for you, it turns out to be common practice for that “someone”, usually a web developer or a web designer, to add a “design by” or “website developed by” footer link to your site. Let me make my point clearly: if they haven’t given you a discount to…
Implementing hreview in your WordPress theme
In his previous post here on Yoast, Frederick explained why you should use Microformats to get Rich Snippets showing for your site and increase the CTR from Google. In the comments of that post, people were asking if there are plugins to easily implement this in your theme. While those are probably a bit hard…
Google FriendConnect API
I’ve been following the #pubcon conversation with interest, and here is the official announcement :). All I can say… look here. Thanks to Matt and Anindo of Google for their help on this!
rel=canonical – Canonical URL links
Matt Cutts has just announced a new tag at SMX West Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have just announced a new link element, henceforth to be known as rel=canonical, which we can use to tell the search engines which URL it should have for the current page. This is probably best explained with an example, so…
Google translating search results
This morning, while discussing some issues with one of my German SEO colleagues, I was searching for [flug amsterdam] in google.de (if you know me you guess which client that was for). At the bottom of the SERP, I saw this: Basically, this is Google offering me, the user, to translate the search term into…
Google subdomain & 302 spam
Dave pointed out last week that 302 spam is far from gone. Wiep pointed me at another form of spam that’s far from gone, combined with 302 spam. If you search for “hypotheekoffers” and flip to page 2, you’ll see a whole lot of subdomain spam. These subdomains 302 redirect to one domain, resulting in…
More Sitelinks!
A friend emailed me this morning, saying he saw a lot more site links reported in Google Webmaster Tools for sites that had not before had site links. When I went to check I saw a lot of my sites, amongst which this one, showing site links too. I can’t get them to show up…
Google Webmaster Tools Content Analysis shows Google breaks the rules.
Well, it might offer some cool data, but it also shows me that whatever Google does, they don’t adhere to the robots standard. Check this: Well, yes, these pages do have duplicate title tags. But they have something else as well: Perhaps, Google, instead of working on these nice webmaster tools, you should start honoring…
PageRank: more valuable than ever
Now that Google has been so nice as to decrease PageRank for at least a portion of the sites they have identified as selling links, PageRank, and more importanly historical PageRank data, has become very valuable linkbuilding data. If you know that a site has decreased in visible PageRank, are you going to buy a…
That’s it! I’m switching to GMail!
GMail seems to be getting IMAP support: It’s not enabled for me yet, but once it becomes available, I think I’ll switch to that instead of my regular IMAP.
