Searchisms explores the "what" and "how" of Internet search.
Blogged on July 26th, 2007, 4:35 am | 1 year 4 months ago
Here are a few of the most common reasons pages stop ranking / get filtered out of Google for their target phrases (ie: go from ranking in the top 5 results to many pages deep or near the end of the results).
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Blogged on May 7th, 2007, 5:28 am | 1 year 7 months ago
If you're like me and you're a 'blogger, then there's stuff you like enough to write about. When you write about this stuff, you link to it, right? So why the anchor text anorexia, eh? 'Coz if you're gonna do it, do it right!
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Blogged on April 8th, 2007, 6:06 am | 1 year 7 months ago
Search engines prefer static URLs to dynamic URLs. This article explains the difference, tells why search engines don't like dynamic URLs, and shows you some ways to make your dynamic URLs look like static ones.
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Blogged on February 16th, 2007, 1:48 am | 1 year 9 months ago
Aside from finally having search engines register your web pages, you should change the URLs to make them human-readable. URLs with query strings (the bit after the page extension and question mark) confuse most visitors and are difficult for them to type
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Update to Google webmaster guidelines
Blogged on October 26th, 2006, 8:18 am | 2 years 1 month ago
Apparently Google doesn't mind dynamic URLs anymore, so "&id" shouldn't be a problem anymore. But they still suggest keeping these to a minimum, so better to get rid of them completely if possible.
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