Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Where did you place your Google Analytics script?
Hopefully not in the <head>…
Google’s Analytic script is pretty intensive and if placed in the head then your pages could be taking longer to load than need be.
Your script, like the one below, should be placed directly before the close of the </body> tag!
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-XXXXXXX-1";
urchinTracker();
</script>
Judging by the fact that some big dogs like: Copyblogger, ShoeMoney and CSSBeauty all have it wrong, you might want to check yourself.
Just trying to give you a <head>s up 
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
The Google Blog explains the robots exclusion protocol:
“Usually when the Googlebot finds a page, it reads all the links on that page and then fetches those pages and indexes them.”
But, what if you don’t want Google to index a page, or follow the links on a page, or archive a page?
Here is a list of META tags you can use:
- NOINDEX tells Google not to index the page
- NOFOLLOW tells Google not to follow the links on the page
- NOARCHIVE tells Google not to store a cached copy of the page
- NOSNIPPET tells Google not to show a snippet (description) under your Google listing, it will automatically get NOARCHIVE too
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Google Webmaster Tools users are in for a real treat! Google now provides a table that list pages within your site that have links pointing to them from other sites. You can even download the table.
Thanks Google, that’s very handy…
[ more here ]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
What makes it so great?
According to FORTUNE the new No. 1 sets the standard for Silicon Valley: free meals, swimming spa, and free doctors onsite. Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects. No wonder Google gets 1,300 résumés a day.
[ more here and here ]
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Friday, January 5th, 2007
A mere eight years old, Google is approaching $10 billion in revenues, with growth over the past 12 months still at a torrid 77%. – BusinessWeek
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Adam Lasnik from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog gives Webmasters some proactive solutions to deal with duplicate content.
If you are concerned about duplicate content, then this would be a good read for you.
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