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I have seen the negative effects of URL Canonicalization in action. Have you?

“Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages.”

SEO advice: url canonicalization

“In computer science, canonicalization (abbreviated c14n, where 14 represents the number of letters between the C and the N) is […]

I was recently sent this question:
I noticed that some sites use the code below. What is this used for?
<meta name=”robots” content=”noodp” />
Answer:
First of all, this is a meta element. When used, it must be placed in the head of html documents. The meta element is used to provide meta information about a document. The meta […]

A HUGE Sydney web standards group meeting coming up on Tuesday 19 August. We have three great presentations and four great presenters!

Presentation 1: “Findability: going beyond SEO”

Presenter: Radica Raeves

Search engine optimisation is usually the first subject that comes to mind when thinking about ways to improve the visibility of your organisation online. But it’s only […]

Imagine if you could get some of the most relevant Google experts on the same stage, at the same time, and ask them any question you’d like around the topic of web standards… What would you ask?
Funnily enough, I will be moderating a panel at this years Search Summit where we will have our change […]

I’ve just come away from a day long seminar on SEO where hiding text was described as a bad practice - regardless of the purpose or CSS method used. This seems to be a bit of a sweeping statement. Many of the sites I have built use hidden content in some form (either a form […]