A comprehensive guide for webmasters on how to prevent and clean up spam on their websites. Protect your site and visitors with these methods.
It’s not uncommon for the luckiest of email users to receive a dozen or so spam messages each day, while those of us who aren’t so fortunate receive hundreds.
Attention Webmasters: Google Sitemaps Updates
Google has been working on updates to how it uses sitemaps. Considering research highlighted in this study (pdf), which showed how search engines find new and changed content faster with sitemaps, webmasters should take note.
Yahoo Gives Webmasters Way to Embed Media in SERPs
Yahoo has introduced a new way for site owners to enhance their Yahoo Search results using SearchMonkey. If you have flash videos, games, presentations, etc. you can have them show up right in Yahoo’s SERPs.
Yahoo shares an example of how Hulu added the following code:
<link rel="image_src" href="http://thumbnails.hulu.com/9/967/32912_145×80_generated__VfWxSNY3rESG1ntOzexNRQ.jpg" />
Accessibility Information Webmasters Can Use
Web Accessibility organization WebAIM has posted results from an interesting survey on the use of screen readers. Webmasters should pay attention to this, as accessibility is an important part of your online presence, but is often ignored or overlooked. Just ask Target, who settled an accessibility lawsuit last year for $6 million.
Webmasters Buzz About Google Bid Hike
Minimum bid increases that apparently started yesterday have site publishers absorbing the impact of a Google Slap.
Webmasters Ponder PageRank Discrepancy
An update to the Google Directory has webmasters puzzling over an apparent discrepancy in PageRank scores.
Webmasters: Where’d My Links Go, Google?
The webmaster forums are lit up with reports that the Google Webmaster Toolbar is showing zero backlinks, and some are reporting a decrease in traffic shortly after.
Ways Webmasters Create Duplicate Content
At the recent SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle one of the big sessions was on duplicate content. There is great blow by blow coverage in posts by Vanessa Fox and by Chris Boggs.
Webmasters Get Easier Google Content Removal
Updates to Google’s Webmaster Central tools give webmasters more options for removing content from Google’s index.
The Bane of Competitive Webmasters – Complacency
It’s really annoying to suddenly remember I have a few domains of 2-3 years of age, that I actually set up links for – but never had any real content on.
Reason being: complacency.
I bought the domains for an early client, with the aim of setting up a small network for link benefits for them.
However, early success meant the domains went undeveloped.