27 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

New Domain TLDs Approved Today

Well, its all wide open now. In a huge announcement today from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) custom Internet domain suffixes have been approved. They have backed an initiative that will introduce an unlimited number of TLDs (top level domains). In the past they have approved such TLDs as .com, .net, [...]

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26 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

SEO 301 – How To Better Secure The Passing of Authority

Today I Sphunn across a great post from site that I had not visited in a while but used to really enjoy, www.searchengineguide.com. The post was about how to safely move a site to a new domain and is a wonderful post with the proper advice on doing so. There are various steps, that Stoney [...]

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24 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Will Google Penalize You For Having Long URLs?

I have been reading around the Web that there is a big to do about some statements that a Google employee has made regarding the fact that Google does not like long URLs. The conversation started over at Google Groups. The comments came from guy named JohnMu and specifically used this URL as an example:
http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/small-kitchen-appliances-toaster-kettle-coffee-machine-blender-juicer-channel7-sunrise-australia-42.html
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07 June 2008 ~ 2 Comments

How Google REALLY Treats Your Internal Links – Part 1

There has been much debate in the past few months as to whether or not Google recognizes, and passes link equity, to multiple links to the same page with different anchor texts. There is a recent post at SERoundtable that has re-sparked this debate and some of the comments disgust me.
But first, here is the [...]

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