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Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 16:17
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Whenever I create a new system I have at least one test website. In order for others to be able to also run tests on that site, I make the site public. What that means is that Google is going to see the website and index it, whether you have a sitemap.xml or not.
The ways to avoid problems, mainly because of duplicate content, is to protect your site.
You have several solutions that may be more or less easy for you to implement. If you have full control of the server, it will certainly be easy. If you don't, it will depend on how much control you are given.
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Sat, 02/01/2014 - 19:47
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For some time now, I've been looking for an image that I could use on my websites to represent SEO.
Because I could not find one, I decided to create one of my own and offer it for free:
(right click on the image to save it to your computer)
Feel free to use it on your own blog or website. I'm more than happy to share!
Also I could not share the original format which I'm attaching here.
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Fri, 01/24/2014 - 17:53
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The year 2014 is going to be a killer year for small businesses and social media. In 2014 some of the trends of 2013 will continue to rise in 2014 while others will fail. But it all depends on how you communicate with your audience, how you share the content, how you leverage relationships. Content has always been a king and will remain the king.
Here are the trends for 2014 and how you can get ready:
Mobile is going to be the main stream: Every website must be optimized for mobile. This means that having a responsive website design and thinking about how people are interacting with ...
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Sun, 01/19/2014 - 18:34
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As I've been around the Internet for a while, I've found many things and the timeforglory.org website is one of those things. I've noticed that website before. Actually, today I found out that it was just a dump website. The owner decided that whatever he was doing with it was to be turned off. Unfortunately he turned it off in the sense that he removed his content and ignored all emails about new comments... and thus it is a big pile of comments from spammers.
I was wondering, how big is that page? It really takes forever to load... So I downloaded it and looked at the size:
prompt> ls ...
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 19:57
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As you create a website, you generally first want to create a site that works. That makes total sense, obviously!
Once the site functions, however, you probably want to wait a little bit for things to settle and see how it generally works. What gives you best results what doesn't help, etc.
Then, you will want to optimize the site for speed. This means making sure that your website appears as quickly as possible to your users. A site that's slow is most often left behind very quickly. I've been using such sites so I know what I'm talking about! (One site I still use that's very slow: ...
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 18:51
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Search Engines are dumb robots1. Internet Marketing Entrepreneurs are Smart Humans (or so they think...
) It is therefore rather easy to outsmart the dumb robots. Today on the Snap! Website blog I will show you how you create a website for the purpose of gaining a higher rank using a very simple cloaking technique.
There are several things that determine your rank, but the main factor is how many links point to your website. To increase the number of links you can increase the number of posts you make on other websites.
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 17:45
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Google is constantly changing (improving...) and this time many got a hit because of their new Penguin update. In my case, the latest changes have been rather positive, but many people got hit the wrong way around and their ranking went down, possibly very much so (some talk about receiving a negative ranking and suing Google over it!)
The latest change can affect anyone, although if you've done nothing wrong, you should be just fine. This being said, the way this new release works can lead to your website losing its rank because someone else played a trick on you. Whether Google can detect and/or accept that you weren't responsible is a different question. At this point, it is still a bit early to say that it is all bad.
So? What did they do this time?
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 15:42
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I often receive spam in my mailbox and on my websites. It is expected that emails will include one link that's repeated several times so the readers are much more likely to click on it at least once1. If they don't click on the first one, they are likely to click on the second or the third. When they skip all of those links, maybe they'll click the one in the P.S. area? This technique makes it easy to funnel people to a specific location on your website.
Now this is completely different from good SEO.
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 22:14
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I learned today that in the last couple of months two people tested content using an IFRAME to see whether the links in the IFRAME would generate the expected juice1 to the destination page, and it does!
The image to the right shows you what the test is about:
1. You create a new page
2. You create a link from a low ranking page2
Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:42
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On October 18, Google announced that all the searches for logged in users (say you have a G+ account...) will make use of their secure pages (i.e. using encrypted data.) Our new upcoming Snap! Websites version will also let you log in your account using SSL.
This is important for users of Google+ since a bar appears at the top and the functionality of that bar includes a cookie. This is a security issue since your account could get hacked since your cookie is traveling on the Internet in clear while doing searches (unless you log out of G+ each time you use it?)