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Google News Bot Chokes on Links in Titles

Posted by Ken Cheung on Friday, October 20, 2006 in Google, WordPress : : one comment

Over on SEOmoz is an article on how to increase web traffic with Google News. At first I thought, "oh, another article about getting included into Google News." I figure it was the same stuff I've seen previously elsewhere. Then I saw something that caught my attention:
1. No links in titles
The Google News crawler can't […]

Google Supports Open Directory Option

Posted by Ken Cheung on Thursday, July 13, 2006 in Google : : comment

It looks like Google has finally decided to support MSN Search's meta tag for not using Open Directory description in the search results for your site. MSN introduced the tag last May. Basically, by using the special meta tag, you're directing search engines that support the meta tag not to use ODP information for the […]

Bigdaddy Spanks Reciprocal Links

Posted by Ken Cheung on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 in Google : : 2 comments

It looks like Matt Cutts has created quite a stir with his Indexing timeline post. At the time of this writing, there were 156 comments.
In Matt's post, he outlines the timeline for Bigdaddy, Google's latest indexing/crawl algorithm. It appears a lot of people are upset because their pages were dropped from the index. After looking […]

Google Ranking Program

Posted by Ken Cheung on Friday, May 12, 2006 in Google, Tools : : comment

I've finally had time to signup for a Google API key so I could try this nifty Google ranking program. A long time ago, I use to use Web Position to find my ranking for various keywords, but I stopped using it for fear of being punished by Google. Now I can legally use a […]

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