Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Ardamis in 2012 – new look, more microdata, faster code

Ardamis.com is starting out 2012 with a new look, better structured data markup, and a revamped anti-spam system.

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Accidental fast scrolling in Android

What am I doing that makes Android occasionally scroll very quickly?

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Two million inbound links

For posterity, a record of the inbound links and site performance as reported by Google Webmaster Tools in April, 2011.

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Sitelinks are back on Ardamis

Ardamis.com once again has three Google sitelinks, as it did in mid-2009, and is approaching two million inbound links.

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Four sources of basic SEO information for beginners

New to SEO? Here are four resources for getting started. Aimed at beginners, applying these basic best practices will give your site an advantage over your competitors.

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One million inbound links

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

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Toolbar Page Rank of 6 and 3 one-line sitelinks

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 [...]

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WordPress comments feed in Google’s Supplemental Index

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 [...]

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External Files Causing a WordPress 404 Error?

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

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Google Talk Beta

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 [...]

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