A blog reader at my other blog Web-World Watch, left this link http://www.copyscape.com/ on a post that spoke about Google dinging sites for showing duplicate content. I entered my own blog address in this tool, and found that there were sites that had actually snatched my own blog content verbatim…
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Check to See If Your Content Has Been Copied
In a previous post, I noted that Google is really cracking down on duplicate content. All site owners should work to clean up their site to make sure that duplicate pages like printer friendly versions of pages are blocked from spidering using the robots.txt file. This will prevent Google from…
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An Interesting Article on the Supplemental Index
Click our post title to read this interesting article on how to keep your blog out of Google’s Supplemental Index. The writer offers an interesting tip on how to update your .htaccess file to turn all URLs into www’s. However you can only consider doing this if you are using…
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Google Releases New Webmaster Guidelines
Click our post title to see a clickable list of the new items that Google has release today in its Webmaster Guidelines section. Of note it the mention of WebPosition Gold. Using this product now violates Google’s terms of service. Google has also really spelled out details for duplicate content,…