07.27.07
Posted in Google
at 9:04 am
I was telling a buddy about SEO the other day. We got to search engine friendly URL’s and he pointed out that what I was saying could be considered a security feature. When you have the question mark, period, ampersand, and equal sign in your URL you are giving people information about your system. Hackers can try to exploit your system if they know the syntax. It won’t stop them but it might stop the stupid ones. Kind of like an alarm does not stop a good thief. I always recommend removing those symbols for SEO reasons. This just gives me another reason to convince somebody to switch to search engine friendly URL’s.
Technorati Tags: search engine friendly url, search engine, google, seo
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07.18.07
Posted in yahoo
at 2:47 pm
If you want to find your back links you can go to www.yahoo.com and type in linkdomain:www.mysite.com. If somebody has put your link all of their pages or just several pages you can remove that from your linkdomain: search. What I will do is linkdomain:www.mysite.com -site:mysite.com -site:othersite1.com -site:othersite2.com Keep adding domains until you get rid of all the extra junk. I found I had to add -site:yahoo.com because my Yahoo directory link was put in quite a few different yahoo directories.
This also works the other way to only show links from one site or links that contain other words like type in “directory” to find all sites that link to you and have the word “directory” on them. You can play around with the other advanced searches like intitle: inurl:. I like to try linkdomain:www.mysite.com inurl:”edu” to see if I have in .edu links.
Technorati Tags: yahoo, linkdomain, backlinks, back links
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07.17.07
Posted in Google, Other Search Engines, yahoo
at 3:51 pm
I was looking at a clients logs today and saw a referrer from a site named www.rankmon.com. I went there and it showed keywords that I rank for and where I rank on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. I then realized “hey I just got referrer spammed”. Oh well at least this time it was something interesting. It seems the site spiders the internet reading keyword meta tags and then scrapes the search engines and gives a ranking report. I really like this. The site does not have an about page or anything that mentions who they are or how it is done or how you can work with them.
Technorati Tags: seo, google, yahoo, msn, live.com, ranking report
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07.09.07
Posted in Google
at 6:23 am
This weekend I noticed an update at Google. I watch a lot of SERPS and they all jumped around this weekend. Since July 4th was on a Wednesday I think this weekend counts as a holiday update. I have watched Google for over 4 years and they have changed a lot over time. Back in the old days they would have there once a month update. Then they went to what they call a rolling update. Google does make changes all the time but one thing I have noticed is that they make changes on weekends. They seem to be consistent about making changes on holidays. There was one back on memorial weekend. Here are a few that Barry over at www.serountable.com has kept a record of.
www.seroundtable.com/archives/012469.html
www.seroundtable.com/archives/013672.html
www.seroundtable.com/archives/013293.html
www.seroundtable.com/archives/006384.html
www.seroundtable.com/archives/012394.html
Technorati Tags: google, update, google update, serountable, barry schwartz, july 4th update
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