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Yahoo!

Bots Really Like Me Now

by Patrick Daly on October 1, 2008

in SEO

I have no clue what happened, but two days ago Yahoo! and MSN started crawling my site like crazy. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary but it seems like something clicked on my site. So its been like this for about two days; I’ll see how long it lasts…and hopefully Google will join [...]

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Hyperlocal SEO Tips

by Patrick Daly on September 23, 2008

in SEO

Struggling to beat out your competitors on a national scale is tough to do - taking them on locally ain’t so tough!
You just have to know what to do.
Optimizing your content, but especially the markup of your page, is crucial to succeeding in dominating your local search results.
GeoRSS
Adding semantics to your page puts you leaps [...]

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Track the Crawl Rate of Spiders on Your Blog

by Patrick Daly on September 6, 2008

in SEO

Anyone can figure out how often bots visit their site by sifting through their log files everyday and organizing each bot and checking on the timespan between crawling, etc.
But who wants to do that?
Patrick Altoft created the Crawl Rate Tracker for WordPress. It does the grunt work to 1) visually display the rate at which [...]

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Nofollow Entire Div!

by Patrick Daly on May 6, 2008

in SEO

Ever wanted to add rel=”nofollow” to an entire div? Me too.
Say, for instance, you duplicated your navigation in your footer and you want to nofollow the links, instead of adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to every link, it would make much more sense to add it to the containing div. This wouldn’t hide content and prevent [...]

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Blogs You Should Be Reading

by Patrick Daly on April 24, 2008

in General

I’ve filtered through a lot of blogs the past few years. Often I’ll subscribe on a whim, only to find out that 20 posts later I’ve gotten nothing of value from the site, so I’ll remove them from my reader. Still, I have plenty more to keep me busy because there are some truly great [...]

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