Search engines have endorsed the use of the nofollow tag to help stop the spread of blog comment spam and other problems. Danny Sullivan's early comments about the intent of this tag are... "When added to any link, it wi...
Dennis Forbes of Pragmatic Software Development put out a terrific post last week on domain name availability (or lack thereof). The following chart shows the percentage of domain names that are taken for 3, 4 5 and 6 letter combinations: ...
I thought it would be interesting, 24 hours after we launched the new domain (0awards.org) yesterday, to see how many search engines had us indexed (along with the few thousand links & mentions that popped up). Here's the results: Google - 1 mention from a ...
I've been wondering lately about whether comparing link attributes in HTML code would provide any value to the search engines. Testing's been done by SEOs in the past about the value of link titles (minimal if any) and rel attributes other than nofollow (nada), but I'm wondering about the target attribute, specifically. Currently, according to W...
Just wanted to start on a thread on the subject of internal 301 re-directs. What's been your general experience when re-directing a page or set of pages to the "canonical" or new version? How long have the engines taken to catch up? For us, I've noticed that Google takes between 2 and 6 weeks to recognize and properly index, although the rankings seem to follow fairly directly...