Quintessential Digg Guide

I felt like I have to give a nod to the good folks over at www.invesp.com for the first free guide I have read in a long time that I actually consider valuable. Sure, the ones at SEOMoz are always valuable, but you have to sign up for premium membership (which I recommend), but this one is absolutely free to RSS subscribers. So, if you want to learn to break the digg code, go ahead and follow their instructions. It is well worth it. No tags for this post.

Really Solved: Another Common Site Review Problem

Matt Cutts wrote recently of a common site-review problem. Many sites prefer to store links within drop down menus (the “select” element). Unfortunately, this non-standard way of using javascript to link to pages within your site is quite difficult for search engines to spider. (ie: search spiders like GoogleBot have difficulty determining that your javascript code is meant to be interpreted as links). Here are a few examples: http://www.pickwicktea.com/ http://www.evinrude.com/ http://www.yoofi.com Luckily, there is a pretty easily solution to the issue. Start by creating a DIV tag with traditional text links inside representing each of the items you would like to appear in your menu. And then just run the javascript I have included below to...