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Special Delivery – IP & User Agent

pittfall — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:20:13 +0000

What is IP Address or User Agent delivery? Both of these tactics are blackhat techniques to deliver different content to different visitors. So, what’s so bad about that? Really, cookies and settings used to store preferences and such that make a website more user focused, right? The difference between giving users a unique experience and [...]

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Special Delivery – IP & User Agent

Google Wants YOU to Report Paid Links!

pittfall — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:46:36 +0000

As reported by Philipp Lenssen, Barry Schwartz, Tamar Weinberg and Loren Baker, Google has updated their Webmaster Help Center question regarding Paid Links: Google and most other search engines use links to determine reputation. A site’s ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to it. Link-based analysis [...]

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Google Wants YOU to Report Paid Links!

Insight into MSN Webmaster Portal

pittfall — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:53:59 +0000

Last week MSN announced Webmaster Portal should be available in late fall and offered a chance to apply to test out the beta and provide feedback. I am not aware that the beta has actually started, however, I was sent an email to register for the beta. It was a simple form requesting information about [...]

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Insight into MSN Webmaster Portal

Sitemaps.org Announces Autodiscovery Protocol

pittfall — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:58:54 +0000

In four separate announcements today from Ask, Google, MSN and Yahoo have announced a new robots.txt protocol for a sitemap autodiscovery on Sitemaps.org. Ask.com – The first bit of news is that Ask.com has joined their counterparts in the development of Sitemaps.org. Ask.com is now supporting submission of Sitemaps via http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=SitemapUrl. We are excited about [...]

Important Information About Understanding Indexing

pittfall — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:34:07 +0000

Recently, on both Yahoo! Search Blog and the Official Google Blog recently posted on indexing websites and how to use some of the tools that everyone has access to keep pages out of the search engine’s indexes. Google Controlling how search engines access and index your website I’m often asked about how Google and search [...]