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Google Webmaster Tools is reporting over one million inbound links to pages on ardamis.com.

For posterity, a quick note that today I noticed http://www.ardamis.com/ was back up to a toolbar page rank of 6 after a number of months at 5. A little later in the day, I noticed 3 one-line sitelinks to: Colophon – About – Portfolio. We’ll, I’d have preferred different pages, but these are my first [...]

I was tired of seeing the majority of my posts’ comments feeds show up in Google’s Supplemental Index, so I changed all the individual posts’ comments RSS links to rel=”nofollow”. This should at least cause Googlebot to stop passing PageRank through those links, but what I really want is for Googlebot to stop spidering the [...]

How to resolve an issue with pages external to WordPress being sent with a 404 status.

Modestly appointed, but the price is right Google has released a beta version of Google Talk, a text and voice instant messenger application. Still in its infancy, the program is very light on features, offering text and voice messaging and little else. Frankly, I hope it remains this way, rather than adding dozens of non-messaging [...]

The future is disturbingly convenient I’ve been using Google Maps for some time now, as a replacement to Yahoo! Maps and the godforsaken MapQuest for plotting out jaunts around Chicago. Completely functional, though still in beta, it’s just about the coolest cartography thing on the web, challenged only by this map of Switzerland. I’m watching [...]