Spamming your own search results
I was faced with the recent challenge of adding a search facility to a
medium sized directory website. I have written custom search
algorithms before, and it's generally a game of cat and mouse of
tweaking / testing to get the right amount of relevance. As soon as
you change the balance in one area, search results get less relevant
in other areas.
Invariably, as your search algorithm gets more...
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No more indexed search pages
Matt Cutts recently posted about indexing search results[1] pages on
your site. This interested (and worried) me as I'm quite a fan of
getting my search results indexed.
The bottom line is, Google says you should block your search results
pages from being indexed, using robots.txt or your favorite other
method.
BROWSE VS SEARCH
I understand this to a certain point, because seach results...
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Ferrit SEO their site properly - sort of?
I have been in the process of writing a SEO article all about
www.ferrit.co.nz[1] - a multi million dollar website with more SEO and
web development mistakes than a drunk illiterate kid with Microsoft
Frontpage could make.
My article covered what you don't want your website to look like
after...
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Win a Luxury Vacation for 2 to the Supplemental Index
I currently have 3 sites in Google's supplemental index - this means
that the homepage is indexed properly, and all other pages pretty well
gone.
What is interesting about my SEO strategy is that it is almost
identical across all the sites I manage. Most of my sites use the same
CMS, which is...
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