The robots.txt file seems so simple, but you can screw things up ever so slightly and end up with a serious problem. The good news is, once you figure out the problem, the SEs generally pick it up pretty quickly. The .htaccess file is similar, except that it’s more powerful and therefore more confusing to [...]
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Coming up with ideas for blog posts is one of the toughest challenges a blogger faces. We’ve talked before about using a feedreader to speed up your blog writing. That may be all you need if most of your posts involve linking to someone else’s and then offering insights of your own. It can also [...]
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There’s been a lot of uproar in recent months (okay, years) about US states passing laws that force Amazon to collect sales tax or, um, something. There also seems to be a lot of confusion about this, based on comment threads I’ve been reading. Some people don’t seem to understand how sales tax actually works. [...]
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One day, you decide it would be nice if the link lists in the sidebars didn’t have a disc by each item. You go into your stylesheet and insert a rule to get rid of that disc. The disc stays right there. You flush your cache, thinking maybe somehow (even though you have it set [...]
Posted in Tools & Tips.
You’ve probably already heard that Google’s on the warpath against “content farms” and changing its algorithm to bump them down a notch. Many people were surprised to see eHow come cheerfully out on top in recent algo updates, given that competing search engine Blekko had defined it as a content farm and banned it from [...]
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If you’re a blogger, you may think it’s not important for you to understand XHTML. It’s true that you can install blogging software, get everything up and running, and even theme and tweak your blog to your heart’s content without knowing anything about it. You might even end up with XHTML Strict compliance if you [...]
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