CodeStore.net comments on "Improving This Site's Search Ranking" Replies to blog "Improving This Site's Search Ranking" on codestore.net. http://www.codestore.net/ Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:02:59 -0500 Reply from Jake Howlett Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:02:59 -0500 Jake Howlett Thanks Rob. I addressed this yesterday by adding the <link rel="canonical"> tag to most pages on this site.

All I need to do now is give it a few weeks and see what affect it has. Will report back when I know more.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100427-0353?OpenDocument#DOC_E31554E3 Reply from Jake Howlett Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:01:35 -0500 Jake Howlett There is a robot file, which blocks them from anything inside the /apps/ folder where all the demo DBs are and the /archive/ folder where older versions of this site (more duplicate content I guess) live.

http://www.codestore.net/robots.txt

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100427-0353?OpenDocument&r=B8AE0DA98F90F1D386257713002C170F#DOC_B8AE0DA9 Reply from RobShaver Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:56:16 -0500 RobShaver You might set up a robots.txt file that will steer indexing away from the sites you don't want to be considered.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100427-0353?OpenDocument#DOC_B362125E Reply from RobShaver Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:52:56 -0500 RobShaver Beware the Google "duplicate content penalty".

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

They consider multiple URLs which lead to identical content to be an attempt to "game" their page ranking algorithms because there have been attempts to do just that.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100427-0353?OpenDocument#DOC_E2FCA438 Reply from Paul Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:35:22 -0500 Paul Jake, have a look at this http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/20/tip-trick-fix-common-seo-problems-using-the-url-rewrite-extension.aspx IIS specific but the discussion is relevant.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100427-0353?OpenDocument#DOC_55420FB0 Reply from Jake Howlett Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:35:35 -0500 Jake Howlett Rel="canonical" looks like it might help. Thanks Giuseppe. Will add it to my todo list.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100427-0353?OpenDocument#DOC_12882FA2 Reply from Jake Howlett Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:35:09 -0500 Jake Howlett Hadn't done, but will do.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100427-0353?OpenDocument#DOC_EFE2651F Reply from Mark Barton Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:14:13 -0500 Mark Barton Jake did you / do you submit a sitemap to Google?

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184

Not sure how much help it is but it can't hurt.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100427-0353?OpenDocument#DOC_953920CF Reply from Giuseppe Grasso Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:16:55 -0500 Giuseppe Grasso You may would to build a sitemap and check with https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ and use the rel="canonical" to specify your preferred address (see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html )

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