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Tag: "Google"

More on doing a 301 redirect of a WordPress site to a new domain

Miriam Schwab | March 14, 2010 | 2 Comments

A few months ago, we redirected this blog from WordPressGarage.com to WPGarage.com in order to respect the request by the folks at Automattic that people not use the word WordPress in their domain name. We wrote up ... View Post

Canonical URLs to help WordPress duplicate content issue

Rebecca Markowitz | February 23, 2009 | 11 Comments

Fancy words aside, a canonical URL is Google's way of identifying a "preferred" URL for your posts to avoid duplicate content. Duplicate content is generally defined as "separate web pages with substantially the same content, which may attract a penalty from search engines." Wordpress is often criticized for having duplicate content since ... View Post

Add Google Calendar to Your Firefox Sidebar

| January 16, 2008 | 0 Comments

If you're an avid Google Calendar user, it would probably make your life easier if you could access it easily all the time. BNET describes a really easy way to get your Google Calendar to appear in your Firefox sidebar at ... View Post

Google removes IncrediMail from AdSense program

| January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment

A lot of bloggers talk about the danger of placing all of your "eggs" in the Google basket, whether it's for search results or for advertising revenue. IncrediMail, an Israeli company that has mysteriously made lots of money by adding smiley faces to email, has just announced via ... View Post

Advanced Dork Firefox add-on gives you right-click access to Google search options

| January 8, 2008 | 0 Comments

When developing blogs or sites on WordPress, we often have to search for information or need help solving a problem, and in those times many of us turn to Google. Did you know that Google has zillions of ways that you can focus your ... View Post

WordPressGarage now has a Google PageRank!

| October 29, 2007 | 6 Comments

I just noticed that WordPressGarage finally has a Google PageRank! For many many months, this blog has had no PageRank, for reasons I don't completely understand. It seems that Google sweeps the web very infrequently, doling out page ranks as they go along. These PageRanks stick until the next time around, ... View Post

Another way to prevent Google from spidering duplicate content: excerpts

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

As mentioned in a previous post, Google penalizes sites for duplicate content. One way of solving this is modifying the robots.txt file. Daily Blog Tips describes another way to prevent Google from finding duplicate ... View Post

Set up robots.txt to prevent Google from finding duplicate content

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

A standard WordPress site has the same content displayed in numerous places, such as Archives, Categories, Feeds and so forth. Blog Rambler says that this can damage your Google ranking since Google penalizes duplicate content: When a crawler visits the site it must decide which of these pages is most relevant, ... View Post