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Re: SEO for CMSs at Refresh Rockville

Reputation Management — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:11:34 -0000

In its basic terms duplicate content means any page on or off your site
that is identical or similar in content. It does not have to be
identical as long as it is appreciably similar. There are harmful types
of duplicate content and harmless.

Re: SEO for CMSs at Refresh Rockville

søgemaskineoptimering — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:42:10 -0000

That said, this article I found today, Can SEO and CMS Go Together?, makes some good points about why CMS and SEO seem to be working at odds ...

Re: Ampersands in rel=”canonical”

dancristo — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:05:36 -0000

Hey Jim,
Just wanted to drop by to let you and the WhirledView community know about my new SEO Q&A site: http://SEOcampfire.com. I hope you don't mind that I reposted your question and the answer over there as well.

Let me know what you guys think.
Best,
Dan

Re: Ampersands in rel=”canonical”

dancristo — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:52:04 -0000

Hey Jim,
Thanks for pointing out that disqus stripped out a bit of the answer. I went in and added some additional spaces for clarity. Seems to read better now.

I'll let you know when the new site is up. I love Q/A like this, so I'm very excited to to be interacting with other SEO minded people like yourself.

Re: Ampersands in rel=”canonical”

Jim Robinson — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:31:49 -0000

This is great information, Dan. Thank you!

If I'm following what you're saying, I think it's likely that Disqus has stripped some of the characters from "& a m p ;" in what you wrote above. It's clear, however, from the canonical link how it's supposed to be formatted.

I'll be sure to check out your new site once it's up. Feel free to come back and drop your link here.

Re: Ampersands in rel=”canonical”

dancristo — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:22:32 -0000

Hey Jim,
When you have a URL that contains an &, and you want to write that as a link in your source code you should use the & a m p ; structure. So the canonical tag should look like <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/this..."/>. That is the valid way of dealing with an & in URLs within HTML. Search engines understand this well.

Now when you're writing a URL in the browser, you want to use the & version only.

Search engines make the conversion and see them as the same URL.

Here is some detailed information as to why this is:
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/v...

I hope that helps.
Best,
Dan Cristo

btw. I'm starting up a new SEO question/answer site in a few days. I'll let you know of the link as soon as it's up. I hope you'll drop by.

Re: The Cost of User Preferences

Jim Robinson — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:26:23 -0000

Thanks for that updated link, Andrew. It's a good one to have bookmarked.

Re: The Cost of User Preferences

Andrew Nacin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:15:10 -0000

Hey Jim,

Thanks for the cool post and the kind words. We've also recently published a formal philosophy page, as this page on the Codex is a few years old and was largely borrowed from other FOSS writings, especially from the GNOME project. This newer page covers our philosophies that guide our development. Of course, the Codex page is great because it shows our roots and leads to some pretty fantastic articles on FOSS development.

Glad you liked the presentation.
Andrew

Re: Time For A [Platform] Change

Holly Kees — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:07:37 -0000

I understand the decision to stick to professional blogging. I have vacillated between personal and professional posts for some of the same reasons. Your more personally flavored posts will be missed however. Have you thought about creating a separate blog for them?

Re: Is SEO Still Relevant in 2009?

Jim Robinson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:33:00 -0000

That's a great compliment and much appreciated.

You make a great point too that before you can optimize for anything, you have to know where your audience is and get your message in front of them.

Re: Is SEO Still Relevant in 2009?

Daniel Riveong — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:31:40 -0000

Jim,

Interesting way to label "beyond Google" searches: Search Engine Circumvention. That's the first time I heard the phrase. Beyond Twitter and Facebook, there's everything from YouTube to Flickr to SlideShare.net.

So like Lee Odden would say, it's all about Digital Asset Optimization. And, it is also being where your audience is. If they're more likely to be on YouTube than Facebook, then make sure to have relevant and optimized content there.

Overall, fantastic post. Best "emerging trends for 2009 on SEO" type post I've seen.

Daniel