Archive for May, 2005

Google and robots.txt exclusions

Friday, May 6th, 2005

It seems that Google does a very poor job of handling files that have been excluded by robots.txt. It seems that Google loves to display URLS only, for any file that they’ve visited from another file, even if that file is excluded explicity via robots.txt.

That behavior seems strange. Why have a wildcard to […]

Change in Google relevance ranking

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Ever since 2/2005, we’ve seen a marked change from how Google sees web pages as relevant. In truth, it’s tougher to match many search phrases if you’re expecting the phrase to be an exact match.

Many people also commented on how they no longer ranked for their company name. This would be understandable if […]

RSS Feeds for Internet promotions

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

More and more we hear of people successfully using RSS feeds to promote their websites. It makes sense. RSS is a powerful technology that has transformed millions of servers into miniature printing presses. People who are interested in any subject can now find a myriad of news sources to keep track of.

There […]