Recent Posts Tagged With 'cloaking'

• How to handle a machine-readable pandemic that search engines cannot control

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 15:59 in google, SEO, blogging, web development, microformats, nofollow, cloaking, paid links, search quality, x-robots-tag, risky linkage

  When you’re familiar with my various rants on the ever morphing rel-nofollow microformat infectious link disease, don’t read further. This post is not polemic, ironic, insulting, or otherwise meant to entertain you. I’m just raving ...

• Vaporize yourself before Google burns your linking power

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 14:14 in google, SEO, Internet Marketing, web development, crap, microformats, nofollow, cloaking, anchor text, webspam, paid links, search quality

  I couldn’t care less about PageRank™ sculpting, because a well thought out link architecture does the job with all search engines, not just Google. That’s where Google is right on the money. They own PageRank™, hence they can ...

• Dump your self-banning CMS

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 14:11 in SEO, blogging, web development, crap, cloaking

  When it comes to cluelessness [silliness, idiocy, stupidity … you name it], you can’t beat CMS developers. You really can’t. There’s literally no way to kill search engine traffic that the average content management system (CM...

• Nofollow still means don’t follow, and how to instruct Google to crawl nofollow’ed links nevertheless

  Posted on Saturday February 23rd, 2008 at 08:51 in testing, nofollow, cloaking, anchor text, paid links

  What was meant as a quick test of rel-nofollow once again (inspired by Michelle’s post stating that nofollow’ed comment author links result in rankings), turned out to some interesting observations: Google uses sneaky JavaScript links (t...

• Update your crawler detection: MSN/Live Search announces msnbot/1.1

  Posted on Tuesday February 12th, 2008 at 12:41 in msn, analytics, cloaking, robots.txt, crawler directives

  Fabrice Canel from Live Search announces significant improvements of their crawler today. The very much appreciated changes are: HTTP compression The revised msnbot supports gzip and deflate as defined by RFC 2616 (sections 14.11 and 14.39). Micros...

• MSN spam to continue says the Live Search Blog

  Posted on Wednesday December 5th, 2007 at 02:58 in spam, msn, crap, cloaking, webspam, spoofing, search quality

  It seems MSN/LiveSearch has tweaked their rogue bots and continues to spam innocent Web sites just in case they could cloak. I see a rant coming, but first the facts and news. Since August 2007 MSN runs a bogus bot faking a human visitor coming from ...

• Advantages of a smart robots.txt file

  Posted on Monday November 26th, 2007 at 09:16 in web development, cloaking, robots.txt

  A loyal reader of my pamphlets asked me: I foresee many new capabilities with robots.txt in the future due to this [Google’s robots.txt experiments]. However, how the hell can a webmaster hide their robots.txt from the public while serving it u...

• Act out your sophisticated affiliate link paranoia

  Posted on Tuesday November 13th, 2007 at 01:09 in web development, e-commerce, nofollow, cloaking, robots.txt, redirects, paid links, search quality, crawler directives, x-robots-tag, risky linkage

  My recent posts on managing affiliate links and nofollow cloaking paid links led to so many reactions from my readers that I thought explaining possible protection levels could make sense. Google’s request to condomize affiliate links is a bit,...

• A pragmatic defence against Google’s anti paid links campaign

  Posted on Friday October 26th, 2007 at 09:39 in nofollow, cloaking, paid links, search quality, crawler directives, risky linkage

  Google’s recent shot across the bows of a gazillion sites handling paid links, advertising, or internal cross links not compliant to Google’s imagination of a natural link is a call for action. Google’s message is clear: “cond...