Category Archives: SEO

Matt Cutts posted a summary yesterday  of things that have been taking place at Google over the last few months.

He provides a lot of links to previous post of interest.  If you read his post and the comments that follow it should give you some kind of idea about what is going on with Google.

One thing for sure is that recipicol links are a thing of the past if they are not related to your site.   Matts Update.

Hopefully everyone who has a website is interested in the Search Engines. Here are a few links you may find helpful.

Official SE Blogs.

Google

Yahoo

MSN

Unofficial Blogs

Google Matt Cutts

Yahoo Tim Converse

Yahoo Jeremy Zawodny

I think the resources listed should be of value to every webmaster.

Yesterday Matt Cutts posted on his blog a summary of Google Press Day 2006.

I think it is worth reading for anyone who wants to know what is going on with Google. Matts Blog Post. As always no Google secrets are revealed.

Many people including webhost do not realize the importance of the .htaccess file in relation to search engine optimization. You may not be aware of this but SEs (especially Google) will treat domain.com and www.domain.com as different pages.

This is referred to as a canonicalization issue which
can be taken care of using mod_rewrite in the .htaccess file.

Unfortunately a lot of host do not allow a webmaster to use a .htaccess file. Fortunately JagPc as a top web host does.

No site should be accessed by domain.com and www.domain.com. You should decide which you want and redirect one to the other with a 301 redirect.

Of course a redirect means you need to be able to use a .htaccess file.

I’ll have more to say about this later. This is somewhat o a test post.

Believe me the canonicalization issue is real. It can affect you with the SEs.