Archive for February, 2009
Google Changes URL Policy
February 20th, 2009 | 
Author: If you are using Google Adwords, check your URLs. Beginning February 24, all URLs much be from the same domain. This decision is intended to avoid abuse of Adwords, but it can also sting those who want to manage multiple domains under one account.
Inside AdWords: A change to our display URL policy
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Google Sitemap Pending?
Not to panic if your sitemap isn’t being approved. It’s a known issue that Google is working on.
Webmaster Help Forum Announcements: Known issue: Submitted Sitemap files stay “pending”
Yahoo! Still Tanking
Many people are upset with Yahoo! and here’s another strike against them. It seems that many are experiencing a decline in responses from ads placed on Yahoo! searches. What is your experience? Join the forum at…
YSM traffic seems to be down 50% today
Duplicate Internal Pages
The big 3 announced support for internal duplicate content. If you have a site with more than one way to get to a page, there is a new method for declaring the correct page. Simple to do in Miva Merchant, and probably other programs, the tag doesn’t have to be followed of course. Perhaps in the future the search spiders will restrict themselves. Think of it as a 301 redirect.
There are already WordPress and other plugins to automate this process (I told you it was simple) and there are bound to be others jumping on board. Not earth shattering and some are skeptical, but well worth a read.
Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Unite On “Canonical Tag” To Reduce Duplicate Content Clutter
