Technical SEO - Page 17

By: Will Critchlow June 5th, 2008

The World Series Spidering Problem

The issue I want to talk about is geo-delivery i.e. delivering different content to different visitors depending on their geographic location. When you don't know more information about the visitor (from sign-up information, cookie, etc.), the only way of doing this is through determining their location from their IP address. Whenever you start talking about selectively delivering content based on IP address, the topic of cloaking inevitably comes up.

By: MelGray May 22nd, 2008

Tool of the Week - Sinatra

Technical SEO

Ladies and Gents, this weeks' featured tool is a cool little number ...

By: Rand Fishkin May 7th, 2008

10 Clear Questions for the Engines that Deserve Some Answers

Technical SEO

Over the past few days, I've seen a lot of questions in our Q+A section and across the blogosphere that suggest it's time for some direct answers from the search engines on major issues that affect business practices, consulting and website building. Here are the ones I believe are in desperate need of straight responses: To all the engines - does content on subdomains i...

By: MelGray May 1st, 2008

Tool of the Week - Disk Usage Analysis with Baobab

Technical SEO

Working as a tech at an SEO company isn't always about SEO. Behind the scenes there are servers to support, tools to debug, and interoffice technical problems that arise all the time. The developers at SEOmoz have picked up a few tricks & tools along the way that have helped us solve all sorts of problems. I'd like to take this chance to share one of these tools. This ...

By: Danny Dover April 30th, 2008

The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet

Technical SEO

Update: New file includes many new additions from suggestions made in comments. In an effort to return to my roots, I spent the majority of the day compiling what I believe to be the mother of all technical SEO cheat sheets. The recommended viewing format of this cheat sheet is as a PDF rather than the traditional blog post (I found the blog posts inconvenient to print)...

By: identity April 8th, 2008

SEOmoz Is Clueless

Technical SEO

Or so Google Imagebot might have us believe. As a fellow contributor, participant, follower and fan, I'm going to take Imagebot's opinion with a large grain of salt -- or a ...

By: Rand Fishkin February 5th, 2008

The Problem with Pagination on CPM Ad Driven Websites

Technical SEO

This morning I woke up at 3:45am (just about the time I usually go to sleep), kissed my fiancée goodbye and jetted off for a day-long meeting in Phoenix, AZ with the folks at Village Voice Media (operators of 16 weekly newspapers and many media-focused sites and blogs). During our chat, the issue of pagination for article content reared its ...

By: Rand Fishkin February 4th, 2008

Controlling Search Engine Access with Cookies & Session IDs

Technical SEO

We've talked plenty in the past about methods to control search engine spiders' access to documents on your website, and we've discussed cloaking in several depths as well. But I feel that an under-utilized and extremely powerful methodology for serving unique content in different ways to visitors and search engines, based on the different experiences sought by the two, is critical to advanced ...

By: Rand Fishkin January 30th, 2008

Rewriting the Beginner's Guide to SEO: Redirection, Server, & Hosting Issues

Technical SEO

I'm currently in the process of re-authoring and re-building the Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here. Redirecting Pages f...

By: Rand Fishkin January 28th, 2008

Choosing the Right CMS Platform for Your Website (from an SEO perspective)

Technical SEO

The Question: I'm starting a new site and have no idea what I should do for software. Do I need to use a content management system, and if so, should I build my own or use someone else's? The Answer: It depends... I want to try taking a new tact with this blog post and give some direction about how to approach this issue. There's no way to tack...

By: Sebastian January 16th, 2008

Robots Exclusion Protocol 101

Technical SEO

<p>The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) is a conglomerate of standards that regulate Web robot behavior and search engine indexing. Despite the "Exclusion" in its name, the REP covers mechanisms for inclusion too. The REP consists of</p><ol><li>The original REP from <a href="https://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html">1994</a>, extended <a href=&qu...

By: Rand Fishkin January 15th, 2008

12 Ways to Keep Your Content Hidden from the Search Engines

Technical SEO

Here at SEOmoz, we're usually talking about how to make your content more visible to the search engines. Today, we're taking a different direction. It may seem unusual, but there are plenty of times when content on your website needs to be protected from search indexing and caching. Why? Many reasons: Privacy Duplicate Content Issues Keyword Cann...

By: Eric Enge October 7th, 2007

A Comprehensive Guide to Hidden Text & Search Engines

Technical SEO

Hidden Text is one of the challenges faced by webmasters and search engines. Spammers continue to use hidden text to stuff keywords into their pages for purposes of artificially boosting their rankings. Search engines seek to figure out when spammers are doing this, and then then take appropriate action.For the average every day webmaster, one challenge is that there are many ways to c...

By: Rand Fishkin September 27th, 2007

Best Practices for Targeting Generic & Specific Terms & Phrases

Technical SEO

My post yesterday caused a bit of confusion about internal linking practices and I figured it would be wise to clear it up with a handy visual representation. In the example above, we have a website that wants to build search-targeted pages for 4 unique keyword t...

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