Search Engine Optimization Web Log Entries
Short-Circuit Evaluation Is Fast
Posted: June 2, 2006 at 8:23 AM by Ben Nadel
As I wrote some time ago, taking Michael Dinowitz's advice, I turn off session management for Spiders and Bots in an effort to cut down on memory usage on the server. See, spiders do not accept client cookies and therefore (on my sites) cannot hold sessions. Consequently, they start a new session for each page request they make. Since sessions tak... read more »
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Revisiting
Posted: April 25, 2006 at 2:37 PM by Ben Nadel
I have been playing around with the Urls that I use internally to the site. Some links have been using search engine optimized links (like ./snippets/) and some use the DAX (Divide and Conquer, like "?dax=blog.search"). At first it seemed that Google was not indexing the dynamic DAX pages (while Jeeves, Yahoo, and other search engines where); howe... read more »
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Google Finally Indexed the Site
Posted: April 20, 2006 at 9:21 AM by Ben Nadel
Google finally indexed my site. It was really interesting in terms of the effect on search engine optimization. I finally have confirmation that the Google bot will index my 404-catching type pages (ex. ../porfolio/client-lsit/), which is great because I was afraid my manual setting of 200 status wasn't taking hold. What I did notice is that of a... read more »
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Search Engine Optimization and Error Catching
Posted: April 19, 2006 at 8:43 AM by Ben Nadel
I have been trying to build this site with good search engine optimization (SEO). The top item on the SEO list is the link hrefs. My site is built on a DAX string (Divide and Qonquer mentality - "daq's") in the form of: "index.cfm?dax=blog:4.view However, in order to make the site more SEO, I have retooled the links to be in the form of: ./blog... read more »
