Monday, June 19th, 2006

Duplicate Content in Blogs: Some Solutions

This comes a day late since “tomorrow” after my previous post discussing the duplicate content problem on blogs (which was published on the 17th) would be yesterday, but that’s what you get in World Cup season, eh?
Anyway, let’s get back to the main issue at hand for today. I said earlier that while many […]

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Duplicate Content in Blogs: The Problem

In recent days, the issue of duplicate content is getting far more attention than it used to, sparking some enlightening discussions over at forums such as WebMasterWorld. For those out of the loop, duplicate content is primarily an SEO problem, where it is believed that search engines (SEs) penalize sites that contain too much duplicate […]

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Highlighting Popular Posts: Some Negative Points

Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger just wrote on the benefits of highlighting popular posts on one’s blog (after he noted a similar post by Stephan Spencer using ProBlogger’s top menus as an example). Just like how previous writings on this subject have tended to be, it’s an all benefits-type of post, which should normally be […]

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Google PageRank Update Is Here

It’s been a few months since the previous Google PageRank (PR) update, so it’s great to have it happening now. To check how your blog’s PR is going to change, use SEO Chat’s Future PageRank tool to see if there are any PR differences between the various Google datacenters:

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Monday, February 13th, 2006

Increasing Search Engine Crawlability in Wordpress

Making our blogs easier to crawl by the various search engine bots is the main reason why we put up with so much crap, from permalinks (nice ones too), categorisation to sitemaps. But there’s one more thing you can do to improve your crawlability - which is to ensure that every page is within two […]