Reclaiming What’s Yours: Getting your feed back from FeedBurner while still tracking subscribers
By Hamlet Batista at August 6, 2007 | 12:30 pm | 0 Comment
As you are probably aware, FeedBurner's way of tracking subscriptions is a little bit unreliable. You've probably seen your subscription numbers drop significantly during the weekends and during the days when you have no new posts or little activity. If you’re like me, you want to know your actual subscriber numbers. There isn’t a straightforward
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Controlling Your Robots: Using the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header with Googlebot
By Hamlet Batista at August 1, 2007 | 6:44 pm | 10 Comments
We have discussed before how to control Googlebot via robots.txt and meta robot tags. Both methods have limitations. With robots.txt you can block the crawling of any page or directory, but you cannot control the indexing, caching or snippets. With the robots meta tag you can control crawling, caching and snippets but you can only
Categotries : Blog , On-page SEO , Technical SEO
Canonicalization: The Gospel of HTTP 301
By Hamlet Batista at July 19, 2007 | 11:21 am | 10 Comments
Usually I don’t cover basic material in this blog, but as a loyal reader, Paul Montwill, requested it, I’m happy to oblige. As I learned back in school, if one person asks a question, there are probably many others at the back of the class quietly wondering the same thing. So here is a brief
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Preventing duplicate content issues via robots.txt and .htaccess
By Hamlet Batista at June 7, 2007 | 2:45 pm | 2 Comments
Rand of SEOmoz.org posted an interesting article on duplicate content issues. He uses the typical blog to show different examples. In a blog, every post can appear in the home page, pagination, archives, feeds, etc. Rand suggests the use of the meta robots tag “no-index”, or the potentially risky use of cloaking, to redirect the
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