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New Look for Google Webmaster Tools

New Look for Google Webmaster Tools

Google’s Webmaster Tools is in the process of changing its look. The old main “Dashboard” page now hides behind “Home,” and unread messages from the Message Center are now prominently displayed at the top.
The new “Home” page (click to enlarge):

I’m happy to report that the side navigation is much faster now (optimized AJAX?), so browsing [...]

Improving the User Experience with Site Analytics

Improving the User Experience with Site Analytics

Having a presence in the online world is quickly becoming common, and everyone from companies to the average Joe is leaving their digital footprint on it. This is exemplified through the many product pages, online albums of family pictures, and candid consumer reviews that exist on the Internet. But just as it is worthwhile to [...]

SEO and the War on Terrorism

SEO and the War on Terrorism

We all know that search engine optimization (SEO) is a great way to drive traffic to a website and increase sales, but SEO is also useful in disseminating ideas and messages. These messages often originate from businesses in the form of press releases, positive product reviews, and reputation management initiatives. But surely SEO can do [...]

Nofollow vs. No Follow

Nofollow vs. No Follow

When it comes to link building and PageRank (PR), whether a link is nofollowed or not (a.k.a. dofollowed) can be a pivotal issue. Many link builders generally base their link building efforts on the quality of links pointing to them, rather than quantity. This then implicitly lead to the use of PageRank as a measure [...]

Link Tag Gets Canonical Relationship Attribute

Link Tag Gets Canonical Relationship Attribute

A couple of days ago, the big three GYM search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live) announced their united support towards the new relationship attribute “canonical.”
This tag was created to better manage duplicate content that is generated by multiple URLs pointing to the same page - a common situation for large sites that automatically [...]