SEO: Duplicate Content
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Identifying In-Site Duplicate Content Using Chained Search Operators
Whether you are taking over a new multinational account as an agency, or maintaining your company’s global Web presence as an in-house...
Better Mobile Linkbuilding In 5 Easy Steps
You may have read in SEOMoz a few years ago that link building is unnecessary for mobile rankings. When it comes to smartphone search engine...
Google Adds URL Parameter Options to Google Webmaster Tools
In 2009, Google launched the parameter handling feature of Google webmaster tools, which enabled site owners to specify the parameters on their...
Google On Designing Mobile Friendly Websites
Pierre Far from Google wrote a blog post on how to design mobile friendly websites while considering Google’s webmaster guidelines and...
Google Creates “Source” Meta Tags To Help ID Original News Sources
With the amount of content published online seeming to expand dramatically every year, Google says it’s experimenting with two new meta...
Mobile SEO Tip: Transcoding Services Can Dilute Link Popularity
Usablenet is one of the most popular mobile web platforms available, because they provide a turnkey solution for businesses that are looking to...
According To Google, The BBC = AmirGabriel.com
Here’s a weird one. Try a search for the BBC TV series Doctor Who on Google. You’ll find the official site, but look closely at the...
Don’t Penalize Yourself: Mobile Sites Are Not Duplicate Content
One of the great things about SEO is the almost scientific way the community approaches the unknown to discover something true that they can...
Bing & Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag
More than a year since the three major search engines united to announce the canonical tag, neither Bing nor Yahoo formally support it. But that...
Bing Still Working On Canonical Tag Support, Suggests Other Ways To Manage Duplicate Content
While Google has recently announced its support of the canonical tag across different domains, Bing says it’s still working on supporting...
Google Supports Cross-Domain ‘Canonical Tag’
Many webmasters will be happy to know that Google has announced its support for using the rel=”canonical” link element across...
Google Lets You Tell Them Which URL Parameters To Ignore
A new feature has appeared in the Site Configuration Settings Sections of Google Webmaster Tools. The setting, called Parameter Handling,...
Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting
Imagine that you fired up your computer and found that a bunch of your programs no longer worked, because behind the scenes, the operating...
SEOs Say AOL’s Love.com Feels More Like A One-Night Stand
AOL recently soft-launched Love.com, which it advertises as a collection of “topic blogs” that “provide a central view into...
Google’s Advice On Using The New Canonical Tag
A month ago, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced they will be supporting a new canonical tag that allows you to tell search engines that page...
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Unite On “Canonical Tag” To Reduce Duplicate Content Clutter
The web is full of duplicate content. Search engines try to index and display the original or “canonical” version. Searchers only...
Got Duplicate Content? Don’t Let It Dilute Your SEO Efforts
“Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink,” laments a sailor adrift in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient...