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Old Software Can Hurt Your Rankings


This site is run on WordPress. I have to admit that in the past I have not been the most pro-active when it came to keeping my WordPress software up to date. As a matter of fact I am still one version behind (more about that later). How can this hurt my rankings you ask? [...]

Google’s Blog Bar Enhancement


About a week ago, Google announced the addition of the Blog Bar to its current line up of AJAX powered addons for web sites. Along with the News bar and Video bar, the Blog bar allows a webmaster to identify keywords and publish Google search results for those keywords directly on their site. In this [...]

301 Redirect vs. Base Href Face Off


I recently asked a question over at IHelpYou Forums about whether or not a 301 redirect could be replaced by a base href tag when used on a series of parked domains. This turns out to be a rather interesting issue and since the thread kind of went in a number of different directions, I [...]

SEO Guide to Evaluating Web Site Software


The SEO forums are seeing a bump in the number of people asking about SEO for sites built using various software packages. In the past week or so I have seen questions on sites ranging from Directories to Shopping Carts to Blogs. So I thought I might take a deeper look into this issue. While [...]

301 Redirects: Only One Home Page Please


Configuring a domain on a web server is a fairly easy task. It does not matter if you are on IIS, Apache or some other flavor of server software, setting up a domain is rather simple. You pick a folder where the content resides, give the domain a name and assign an IP (static or [...]