SEO "Don'ts": 20 Fatal Mistakes You Must Avoid To Succeed

... . If your SEO company uses high-risk tactics and your site gets caught, you'll be the one paying the price. 5. Don't spread your content over several domains. There are times when sub-domains or an additional domain might make sense, but those occasions should be dominated by user and content considerations ...
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Jun. 21, 2007 at 3:03pm Eastern by Matt McGee

Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google

Matt Cutts of Google said at PubCon that Google will be treating sub domains similar to how they treat folders on a site. I reported this at the Search Engine Roundtable on a post by Tedster at WebmasterWorld, where Tedster said: News flash from Las Vegas PubCon. Matt Cutts informed us that Google ...
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Dec. 7, 2007 at 9:02am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

How Changes To The Way Google Handles Subdomains Impact SEO

... , and how that impacts SEO. Although URLs may take many forms, the overall structure can be distilled into one of three basic types: within a single domain (pages from the root of the domain as well as within subfolders), subdomains, and separate domains. Generally, a site begins with a single domain ...
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Dec. 12, 2007 at 12:09am Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Sitemaps.org Update: You Can Now Store Your XML Sitemap Files Anywhere!

... announced an update to the sitemaps.org protocol which enables site owners to store their XML Sitemap files in any location -- even on a different domain than the one referenced in the Sitemap. This will be a welcome change for those who manage multiple domains and would like to keep all Sitemap files ...
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Feb. 27, 2008 at 9:13pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Redirects: Good, Bad & Conditional

... and PageRank dilution, you'll want to employ redirects so as not to squander any link juice (PageRank) that your site has acquired. There are multiple ways of redirecting, and it's important you get it right if you want the SEO benefit without risk of falling outside search engine guidelines (such as ...

Aug. 7, 2008 at 7:59am Eastern by Stephan Spencer

Google AdWords To "Strictly Enforce" Display URL Policy

... simply redirects to www.Google.comwww.Gooogle.com - this URL leads to a page showing content identical to www.Google.com We do not allow the use of multiple domains or branding and vanity URLs. Please also be aware that we do not permit multiple ads from the same or related company, person or agency ...

Feb. 13, 2008 at 8:42am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 28, 2008

... announced an update to the sitemaps.org protocol which enables site owners to store their XML Sitemap files in any location -- even on a different domain than the one referenced in the Sitemap. This will be a welcome change for those who manage multiple domains. Search News From Around The Web: Applications ...

Feb. 28, 2008 at 9:06pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

6 Common Website Mistakes That Are Costing You Money

... the site's hierarchy. This can usually be achieved via a search-friendly CSS mouse-over menu. 3. Duplicate "pages" getting indexed under multiple URLs. While Google has, for the most part, worked out many of their canonical issues of the past and now generally realize that www.example.com ...
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Aug. 14, 2008 at 9:43am Eastern by Jill Whalen

Key Takeaways From SMX Advanced For In-House SEMs

... ! has improved its crawling of XML sitemaps files. If your Yahoo! sitemaps failed in the past, you may want to resubmit them. After acquiring a new domain for SEO purposes, to prevent resetting the domain's PageRank don't update the domain's host, DNS setting, and content all at once. Instead, do it ...

Aug. 13, 2008 at 8:32am Eastern by Andrea Harris

Search Month: Februrary 2008 Search News, In Review

... launched a search tool powered by Google to help see if your sites are vulnerable to a hacking attempt. The tool is named Goolag, and by typing in a domain name it may return site vulnerabilities. Techworld reports the tool makes "it easy for unskilled users to track down vulnerabilities and sensitive ...
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 10:46am Eastern by Danny Sullivan