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How to Use the Robots Meta Tag

The Robots meta tag has been around for ages, but some new features introduced in 2006 and 2007 have made it a lot more useful than it used to be. Here’s the 4-1-1.

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A Real SEO Case Study – Test Your SEO Smarts and Play Along.

Why would a respectable website have shockingly spammy Google snippets? In this case study, you’ll get a chance to test your SEO smarts as you solve this real-life SEO mystery.

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Ask the Experts: Will W3C Validation Affect My Search Engine Rankings?

The short answer is “No.” While we advocate W3C validation as a general web development best practice, we are not aware of any direct connection between validation and search engine rankings….

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Ask the Experts: What are those Secondary Links in Google Search Results?

The secondary results you’re describing started showing up in Google’s search results sometime around the Summer of 2005 when they were doing a bunch of experiments with their search results…

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Ask the Experts: Pay-per-click: Can it Hurt My Organic Traffic?

We do think that PPC clicks take away from organic traffic in the particular case when…

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What is 302 Hijacking?

There you are, minding your business, tending your website and monitoring your site rankings on the search engines, when you see something, er, not quite right in the results pages…

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